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What does the number of kilocalories in a food indicate the amount of?
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The number of kilocalories in a food indicates the amount of energy in the foods you eat.
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The number of kilocalories in a food indicates the amount of what?
The number of kilocalories in a food indicates the amount of energy in the foods you eat.
Do grams measure the amount of energy in food?
No, kilocalories measure the amount of energy in foods. There is between 4 and 9 kilocalories per gram in the digestible portion of any foods.
What do you use kilocalories for?
Youmultiplythe amount of kilo calories you want to convert to calories by 1000.
How can energy content of food be worked out?
A calorie is the amount of energy required to raise a volume of water a certain amount. This historically was determined by completely burning food surrounded by water. The Atwater system averages the components of food to determine a calorie count, because our bodies do not derive energy from certain types of food. In this system protein and carbohydrates add 4 kilocalories per gram to a food's total, whereas fat adds 9 kilocalories per gram.
What is the unit energy found on food packets?
KiloCalories and KiloJoules.
How is the energy value of food measure?
Joules (J) or kilocalories (cal) (kcal in Europe)
In which unit can you measure food energy?
Kilocalories, or what is typically seen on a food package as simply "calories"
A blank is a measure of energy in food?
The calorie (usually expressed in kilocalories)
How many kilocalories are in 100 grams of food?
7 Million!!!!!! Muahahahahahaha
How many standard SI calories are in one food Calorie?
1000. Food Calories are SI kilocalories
What is a kilocalery?
A kilocalorie is one food calorie. A standard calorie is a unit of energy equal to 4.184 joules. This is a very small amount of energy, so when we're talking about the amount of energy in food, we use kilocalories, which is equal to 1000 standard calories. When we're talking about food, we always say that it has so many calories, but forget to note that we're talking about food calories, which makes it somewhat confusing. 1 standard calorie= 4.184 joules 1000 standard calories= 1 kilocalorie= 1 food calorie= 4184 joules If a piece of food has 80 (food) calories, then it has 80 kilocalories, or 80,000 standard calories.
How energy content in food can be worked out?
A calorie is the amount of energy required to raise a volume of water a certain amount. This historically was determined by completely burning food surrounded by water. The Atwater system averages the components of food to determine a calorie count, because our bodies do not derive energy from certain types of food. In this system protein and carbohydrates add 4 kilocalories per gram to a food's total, whereas fat adds 9 kilocalories per gram. A kilocalorie is the energy required to heat one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius.
