The unit of energy used to quantify the amount of energy in food is?
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calorie
Food energy
energy in food
Food energy Calorie Energy flow (ecology) Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 Water, energy and food security nexus Food web Ecological efficiency Atwater system Ecological pyramid Specific energy
<b>Food energy</b> is chemical <b>energy</b> that animals (including humans) derive from 
<b>food</b> through the process of cellular respiration. Cellular respiration may either&nbsp;... ... fl oz) <b>energy</b> drink with 330 kilocalories, more than a fast-<b>food</b> cheeseburger, 
and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar. The calorie is a unit of 
<b>energy</b> widely used in nutrition. For historical reasons, two main&nbsp;... In ecology, <b>energy</b> flow, also called the calorific flow, refers to the flow of <b>energy</b> 
through a <b>food</b> chain, and is the focus of study in ecological energetics. The <b>Food</b>, Conservation, and <b>Energy</b> Act of 2008 was a $288 billion, five-year 
agricultural policy bill that was passed into law by the United States Congress on
&nbsp;... The water, <b>energy</b> and <b>food</b> security nexus according to the <b>Food</b> And Agriculture 
Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), means that water security, <b>energy</b>&nbsp;... <b>Food</b> webs depict <b>energy</b> flow via trophic linkages. ... against the cyclic flows of 
material through the <b>food</b> web systems. Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which <b>energy</b> is transferred 
from one trophic ... In agricultural environments, maximizing <b>energy</b> transfer from 
producer (<b>food</b>) to consumer (livestock) can yield economic benefits. A sub-field 
of&nbsp;... The Atwater system, named after Wilbur Olin Atwater, or derivatives of this system 
are used for the calculation of the available <b>energy</b> of <b>foods</b>. The system was&nbsp;... An ecological pyramid is a graphical representation designed to show the 
biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem. A pyramid 
of <b>energy</b> shows how much <b>energy</b> is retained in the form of new ... a single 
snapshot in time, productivity pyramids show the flow of <b>energy</b> through the <b>food</b> 
chain. <b>Energy</b> density has tables of specific energies of devices and materials. Specific 
<b>energy</b> or massic <b>energy</b> is&nbsp;...
calorie
Units of energy