It's easy to get confused about calories and kilocalories since, in a nutrition context, values are actually given for the number of kilocalories in a food, but referred to simply as calories.
In my case,I read a book on body building and it states that a normal male will require 2500cal per day.The weird part is when I realized that a tin of coffee gives 86kcal or what I thought was 86000cal.Of course it doesn't make any sense.
In scientific terms:
1000 calories = 1 kilocalorie = 1 kcal = the energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1kg of water by 1°C.
In nutrition terms:
ie. What you'll find on food packaging, calories = kilocalories and are used interchangeably.
In some instances food energy is measured in kilojoules - mostly by the scientific community - though some food packaging also gives kilojoule (kJ) values. 1 kilocalorie = 4.2 kilojoules.
#source= http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories.htm
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