The EU should use Joules not calories (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by NorskSud@lemmy.pt to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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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.

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[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago

Read that again

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