All related terms of 'calories'

Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.

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a unit of heat , equal to one thousand calories , often used to express the heat output of an organism or the energy value of food

If you count all the things in a group, you add them up in order to find how many there are.

calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e. g . in alcohol or refined sugar

Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.

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a calorie whose source has little or no nutritional value

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