Exactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.
I’m not misunderstanding metric prefixes, you’re misunderstanding my point. When I say “Nobody uses calories” I mean “People don’t use the unit calories”. The way you don’t use millimeters when describing someone’s height. Or light-years. Yes, it’s just a simple conversion, but nobody uses it. America uses “Calories” with an uppercase C which is 1000 calories. Other countries use kilocalories which is also 1000 calories.
The thing is that most people don’t know Calories and calories are different so generally speaking if someone says calories they mean Calories.
Wrong, a Calorie is 1000 calories. Virtually nobody uses calories though so don’t worry about it too much.
European nutritional labels use them (kcal). Where do you live that they don’t?
Exactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.
You misunderstand metric prefixes. kcal is not a separate unit from cal, it is the same unit with a prefix slapped infront
1000 cal = 1k cal = 1 kcal
The equal sign here is not a unit conversion
I’m not misunderstanding metric prefixes, you’re misunderstanding my point. When I say “Nobody uses calories” I mean “People don’t use the unit calories”. The way you don’t use millimeters when describing someone’s height. Or light-years. Yes, it’s just a simple conversion, but nobody uses it. America uses “Calories” with an uppercase C which is 1000 calories. Other countries use kilocalories which is also 1000 calories.
The thing is that most people don’t know Calories and calories are different so generally speaking if someone says calories they mean Calories.