I am in Brazil...?!

Question: Hi! I am in barra de tijuca rio de janeiro brazil, and all of the food has nutritional information in ′′kcals.′′ How do I know how many CALORIES are in it? Like what is the conversion rate? Thank you so much... = )

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Answers: Hi! I am in barra de tijuca rio de janeiro brazil, and all of the food has nutritional information in ′′kcals.′′ How do I know how many CALORIES are in it? Like what is the conversion rate? Thank you so much... = )

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They are the same thing. It is just a different way of labeling it. They do that in Europe and most places outside US i think. You don't need to convert anything, ie 200 kcals is 200 calories.

Basically what we call a Calorie is actually 1000 'calorie units' on some scientific scale. So in some countries they call it a kcal -short for kilocalorie (kilo means a thousand). Pretty much we have just shortened it more in the US to plain old "calories". But kcal and calorie are the same thing just pretend the k isn't there.
This might help to explain the whole science part of it. What we use for food are the large calories, or kilocalories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

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its pretty close to one for one but kcal to cal converter are available on-line. see one example below

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