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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

You seem to confuse metric with SI units. And prefixes for the base units (like km instead of 1000m) do exist in the SI system.