What are calories?

Question Posted Tuesday May 13 2008, 8:43 pm

what r calories?

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Comrade answered Wednesday May 14 2008, 12:17 am:
Calories are a unit of measurement that measures energy. One calorie is the energy it takes to heat one gram of water by one degree C.

As you can imagine, this is a very tiny amount of energy. As a result, most of the time when you read labels on foods, they're actually measures in KCals, or Kilocalories, which are 1000 calories each.

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