What is kilocalorie (dietary)?

A kilocalorie, written as Calorie with a capital C in nutrition contexts, is a unit of energy equal to 1,000 thermochemical calories. It is the standard unit used to express the energy content of food on nutrition labels globally.

What is megajoule?

A megajoule is a unit of energy equal to one million joules. It is used in industrial energy calculations, explosive yield estimations, and large-scale thermodynamic systems.

Worked examples

1 kilocalorie (dietary) = 0.004184 megajoule

1 megajoule = 1,000,000 joule

More Energy conversions

• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to joule
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to kilojoule
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to kilowatt hour
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to calorie (thermochemical)
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to watt hour
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to megajoule
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to electronvolt
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to British thermal unit
• Convert kilocalorie (dietary) to therm (US)

Assumption: calorie means thermochemical calorie, and therm means US therm.