How can they determine how many calories is in something??

Question

Like for example they have diet pepsi && diet pepsi MAX that has no calories and pepsi ONE that has only 1 cal whats the difference the 1 calorie?! i think thats stupid they all taste the same to me and they all are from the same company

Im actually curious because i was drinking Pepsi One and thought whats the difference and how would they know how many calories is in a soda or w.e?

Answer 1

You would want to look on the box or bottle of a food or drink beverage and its called Nutrition Facts look on that chart and see what you need. Plus many food and beverage companies have a spot on their website where you can find out what the nutritional value and what not is for a certain food. Like Dunkin Donuts has a website to go on and check out what the nutritional value is for almost every thing they sell at their stores.

Answer 2

They put a food into a device that superheats it and find out how much heat was put off by burning it.  

But all diet sodas are bad for you for a variety of reasons.

Answer 3

1 Calorie is the amount of energy used to boil 1 mL of water. An object called a calorimeter is used to find how many calories are in something.

Also, I'm pretty sure nutrition labels are in Calories and not claories. The capital C is kilo-calories or 1,000 calories.