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===Nutrition=== In the [[United States]] and Canada, in a nutritional context, the "large" unit is used almost exclusively.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nutrition |first=Center for Food Safety and Applied |date=7 March 2022 |title=Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label |url=https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/changes-nutrition-facts-label |journal=FDA |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Elements within the Nutrition Facts table |url=https://inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labels/labelling/industry/nutrition-labelling/elements-within-nutrition-facts-table#s2c1 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240625213453/https://inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labels/labelling/industry/nutrition-labelling/elements-within-nutrition-facts-table |archive-date=2024-06-25 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=[[Canadian Food Inspection Agency]] |language=en}}</ref> It is generally written "calorie" with lowercase "c" and symbol "cal", even in government publications.<ref name=FDA2019/><ref name=NHS2019/> The SI unit [[kilojoule]] (kJ) may be used instead, in legal or scientific contexts.<ref name=ukmetric2012/><ref name=NPL2016/> Most American nutritionists prefer the unit kilocalorie to the unit kilojoules, whereas most physiologists prefer to use kilojoules. In the majority of other countries, nutritionists prefer the kilojoule to the kilocalorie.<ref name=patt2017/> In the [[European Union]], on [[nutrition facts label]]s, energy is expressed in both kilojoules and kilocalories, abbreviated as "kJ" and "kcal" respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EU Regulation No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1169/oj#d1e2548-18-1 |access-date=18 April 2022 |website=EUR-Lex |language=en}}</ref> In [[China]], only kilojoules are given.<ref>{{Cite web |last=USDA |date=2013 |title=China, General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods |url=https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/report/downloadreportbyfilename?filename=General%20Rules%20for%20Nutrition%20Labeling%20of%20Prepackaged%20Foods%20_Beijing_China%20-%20Peoples%20Republic%20of_1-9-2013.pdf |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref>
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