Joule is the metric system unit to measure the energy in food, however we still see calories being used everywhere, specially advertising and fitness influencers. Let’s stop this nonsense.
Joule is the metric system unit to measure the energy in food, however we still see calories being used everywhere, specially advertising and fitness influencers. Let’s stop this nonsense.
But calories are metric!
" the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C "
From Wikipedia:
Calories are CGS units, which is a metric system.
What you want to argue is that they are not SI units.
Metric ≠ SI
Wikipedia disagrees with you
No, it doesn’t
relevant citation, highlighting by me:
Read that again
i do like kWh (1000 Watt * 1 hour) even though it’s not metric. because it’s useful in everyday life.