Why do products refer to Kcals when we used to just say cals?!
Why do products refer to Kcals when we used to just say cals?
Answers:
If you write Calories with a capital 'C' it means kilo calories, and calories with a small 'c' means the much smaller calorie measurement that is so small it's only useful to scientists
Source(s):
School
plus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/calories...
Technically the amount of energy in food is kiloCalories, hence kCal. It's just generally understood that when you say calories in reference to food/diet, you mean kCal.
A KCal is a Kilo Cal, or 1000 Cals
it's kilocalories