From what I understand, kilo is used for a 1000 units of something. Like kilometer is 1000 meters, kilogram is 1000 gram and so on. But when it comes to the food we consume, when we say coconut water has 18 kilocalorie/100 gm, why does it not mean 18000 calorie in general sense?
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It does mean 18000 calorie. Its just that we just leave out the kilo very often when saying kilocalorie because a calorie is a very small unit of energy that doesnt have a use in everyday speech. So people started using calorie as a short for kilocalorie in everyday speech. If you would use it in a scientific setting it would just straight up be wrong.
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