The EU should use Joules not calories

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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.

Every packaging in the EU already includes kilojoules as unit for energy content of food.
You can’t force influencers to use them, you can only force companies and government bodies.
And in some cases, using metric would simply be worse in daily life.
Like using Kelvin instead of Celcius, meters per second instead of kilometers per hour, seconds in general instead of hours and days…
Fun fact: The fuel consumption of a car that needs 10 litres / 100 km (24 miles per gallon) could be simplified to 0.1mm^2^ .
Is it metric? Yes. Is it practical? Not really.

And in some cases, using metric would simply be worse in daily life.

No?

Like using Kelvin instead of Celcius

They are the same thing. They just use different starting points.

meters per second instead of kilometers per hour

Meters per second and kilometers per hour are both the same system, called the metric system.

seconds in general instead of hours and days

What are you on about? Seconds, hours and days are all part of the same system.

Fun fact: The fuel consumption of a car that needs 10 litres / 100 km (24 miles per gallon) could be simplified to 0.1 mm2

Actually no. 10 L = 10 dm^3 = 10 000 cm^3. That means 10 L / 100 km = 10 000 cm^3 / 100 km.

To simplify further: 10 000 cm^3 / 100 km = 10 cm^3 / 100 m = 0.1 cm^3 / 1 m = 0.1 cm^2

0.1 cm^2 != 0.1 mm^2

Is it metric? Yes. Is it practical? Not really.

It was already metric from the start before any mathematical simplification was done, so the metric system was definitely practical here.

Is the simplest mathematical form always the same as the simplest practical form? Definitely not, but that has nothing to do with the metric system.

If you’re gonna correct someone, be correct.
Your further simplification ignores that one of the units is cubed.
What do you mean? I wrote cubed as ^3 throughout the entire expanation.
You edited your comment 16 minutes ago. When I wrote my reply you had your units wrong.
Yes. I eventually noticed my mistake and corrected it. 👍Thanks for pointing it out.