What does 200 calories look like?

Strong Bad
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edited January 2007 in The Clubhouse
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, that is pretty interesting.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited January 2007
    Unfortunately not all calories are created equally ... or digested, retained etc ...
  • John in MA
    John in MA Posts: 1,010
    edited January 2007
    Hmm, the last few nights I've been making and eating dessert balls that consist mainly of butter, sugar, oats, walnuts, cocoa, and rum. I don't even want to know.
  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited January 2007
    Those values are way too low, they should be multiplied by 1000 to get the correct amount. I bet those are all 200 kilocalories... ;)
    Unfortunately not all calories are created equally ... or digested, retained etc ...
    Absolutely correct.
  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited January 2007
    Sami wrote:
    Those values are way too low, they should be multiplied by 1000 to get the correct amount. I bet those are all 200 kilocalories... ;)


    Absolutely correct.

    Nope, the capitalized "Calories" so they were right.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    jdhdiggs wrote:
    Nope, the capitalized "Calories" so they were right.

    Well.... kind of true, although you're both being way too nitpicky... From Wikipedia :
    A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. The unit's name is French and derives from the Latin calor (heat). In most fields, it has been replaced by the joule, the SI unit of energy. However, it remains in common use for the amount of food energy. Many different definitions for the calorie emerged during the 19th and 20th centuries. They fall into two classes:

    * The small calorie or gram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.184 Joules.
    * The large calorie or kilogram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.184 kJ, and exactly 1000 small calories.

    In scientific contexts, the name "calorie" refers strictly to the gram calorie, and this unit has the symbol cal. SI prefixes are used with this name and symbol, so that the kilogram calorie is known as the "kilocalorie" and has the symbol kcal.

    In America, a colloquial usage for nutrition and food labelling uses the term "calorie" to refer to the kilogram calorie. This applies only to English text; if an energy measurement is given using a unit symbol then the scientific practice prevails there.[clarify] A convention of capitalising "Calorie" to refer to the kilogram calorie, with uncapitalised "calorie" referring to the gram calorie, is sometimes proposed, but neither recognized in any official standards, nor commonly followed.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited January 2007
    jdhdiggs wrote:
    Nope, the capitalized "Calories" so they were right.
    So Calories = kcal = 1000 calories? Ok, I will have to look it up then...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

    "A convention of capitalising "Calorie" to refer to the kilogram calorie, with uncapitalised "calorie" referring to the gram calorie, is sometimes proposed, but neither recognized in any official standards, nor commonly followed."

    It's not recognized and the article says calories most of the time. :D

    Yes, nitpicking this is, nothing else. :D
  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited January 2007
    Well, if you'r going to capitalize "Calories" in the middle of the sentance, then you know it's a kcal, that's all...

    And commonly followed? I hardly ever see kcal anymore, rather it's always Cal...
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2007
    That's a lot of food for only 200 calories. :eek:


    ;)
  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2007
    Demiurge wrote:
    That's a lot of food for only 200 calories. :eek:


    ;)


    Actually, I think it's your computer screen that clocks in at 200 calories when consumed. But I gotta tell ya, I'm half way through devouring mine and I'm already full.
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