Eli5: what are calories?

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I get that is has something to do with energy, but so do a lot of things.

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Calories are a measure of energy, kind of like how grams measure mass, inches measure distance, and liters measure volume.

You’ll usually see calories in the context of food, where it measures the amount of energy available in the food.

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