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[Lise]

k= kilocalorie - a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food

kilo...so we divide by 1,000, and each TimTam has 0.39 calories? SWEET!

uhmmmm--somehow I doubt my math just the tiniest bit. What is the relation between kilocalories and calories? (you'd think I'd know this, with two degrees in health sciences. Snicker away. I invite you. I deserve it. But this knowledge seems to have fallen into a deep crevase in my memory.)

Nanci, are you working, making that sweet overtime money?

[DirtDiva]

Nanci, what you're talking about is a kilojoule... (Calories aren't that logical - they're not metric.)

Lise, probably the back of the TimTam packet is talking in kilojoules too (food labels certainly are in kJ on things manufactured in NZ). There are about 10 of them in a "calorie" (which I think is actually a kilocalorie, but is never called that in the nutrition world..?), so each bicky probably has 30-or 40-something calories.

Wait! I've lied:

1 Calorie [nutritional] = 4.1868 kilojoules
1 kilojoule = 0.238845897 Calories [nutritional]

So:

390 kilojoules = 93.149899685 Calories [nutritional] (Thank you www.onlineconversion.com.)

But surely Arnotts can't be trying to tell you that the serving size is one lonely TimTam? More power to anyone who can eat those things one at a time.

[Lise]

Nanci, what you're talking about is a kilojoule...

Lise, probably the back of the TimTam packet is talking in kilojoules too. There's about 10 of them in a "calorie" (which I think is actually a kilocalorie, but is never called that in the nutrition wold..?), so each bicky probably has 30-or 40-something calories.

Wait! I've lied:

1 Calorie [nutritional] = 4.186 8 kilojoule
1 kilojoule = 0.238 845 897 Calories [nutritional]

So:

390 kilojoule = 93.149 899 685 Calories [nutritional] (Thank you www.onlineconversion.com)

Thanks, DD. I liked it better when each bickie had 30 calories than when it had 93.149 899 685 calories. We'll round down and say 93. Although, that seems about right.

They did a study once where they gave men food items and asked them to estimate the calories. They had no idea. Women, however, could usually get it almost precisely by guessing!

[Nanci]

Oops, sorry...

Yes, I'm getting OT right now.

[DirtDiva]

Wow. I think I just set a world record for the number of edits for one message.

[Lise]

I'm a major fan of the edit button myself.

Yep, they say one cookie is one serving. So far, I have been able to hold myself to one cookie per day. It was late last night when I looked at the "energy" per cookie. Good Lord, I thought. I must clarify this with the help of Thread Drift in the morning!

Nanci, when's your next ride in the Brevet series?

[margo49]

There is no such grammar as chocolate biscuit (sing.
There are only chocolate biscuits (plural)
Unless there is only one left in the packet - which is not a situation that one can imagine will last long enough to be talked/written/read or in any way ,shape or form grammar-ed about