We found 2 definitions of nutritionist's calorie from 2 different sources.
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nutritionist's calorie - 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 | ||
Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie | ||
energy unit, heat unit, work unit a unit of measurement for work |