NorskSudFeb 4

The EU should use Joules not calories

https://lemmy.pt/post/13958847

The EU should use Joules not calories - Lemmy Português

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.

Show threadBlue_Morpho

But calories are metric!

" the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C "

Feb 4 at 6:12pmWeb
Show threadNorskSudFeb 4

From Wikipedia:

However, the calorie is not part of the International System of Units (SI), and is regarded as obsolete,[2] having been replaced by the SI derived unit of energy, the joule (J),[9] or the kilojoule (kJ) for 1000 joules.

Show threadAnikiFeb 5
i do like kWh (1000 Watt * 1 hour) even though it’s not metric. because it’s useful in everyday life.
Show threadKornblumenratteFeb 5

Calories are CGS units, which is a metric system.

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

Metric ≠ SI

Show threadMubelotixFeb 5
Wikipedia disagrees with you
Show threadKornblumenratteFeb 6

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.

Centimetre–gram–second system of units - Wikipedia

Show threadMubelotixFeb 6
Read that again