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.

  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Calories are CGS units, which is a metric system.

    What you want to argue is that they are not SI units.

    Metric ≠ SI

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        1 day ago

        No, it doesn’t

        relevant citation, highlighting by me:

        The centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time.