bHip Energy Drink Calories

Focus on Calories

I can remember as a young child, the food scales and the label reading as part of a Weight Watcher regiment my parents undertook. It was tedious and ridiculous. Over the years, we have gotten more sophisticated with the product labeling, mostly as mandated by FDA regulation...but with the best interest of the consumer in mind. The overwhelming trends, however, show that when it comes to Energy Drinks, there are few that recognize the concerning facts about the high calories typical energy beverages and sodas contain. Below is the details of the research and health benefits of Calories as a nutritional health ingredient in the Energy Drink sold by BHip Global.

Who's Counting Anyway?

:This article is about the unit of energy. For its use in nutrition and food labelling regulations, see the article on food energy.

The calorie is a pre-SI unit of energy, in particular heat.International Standard ISO 31-4: Quantities and units ? Part 4: Heat. Annex B (informative): Other units given for information, especially regarding the conversion factor. International Organization for Standardization, 1992. In most fields, its use is archaic, and the SI unit of energy, the joule, has become accepted. However, it remains in common use as a unit of food energy. It was first defined by Professor Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a kilogram-calorie, and this definition entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. Etymology: French calorie, from Latin calor (heat).

The unit calorie has historically been used in two major alternate definitions that differ by a factor of 1000:

* The small calorie, gram calorie, or calorie (symbol: cal) is the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 °C.

* The large calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie (symbol: kcal), or Calorie (capital C) is the amount of heat (energy) needed to increase the temperature of one kg of water by 1 °C, exactly 1000 small calories, or about 4.184 kJ.

The second form is the one commonly used to express food energy. Its most common name is calorie; kilocalorie is sometimes used, more often in the symbol "kcal" than in the spelled out word.

Apart from these two major alternate definitions, there exist also minor variants of the definition of this unit, which differ in the exact experimental conditions used, most notably the start temperature of the water (see section below).

The factors used to convert measurements in calories to their equivalents in joules are numerically equivalent to expressions of the specific heat capacity of water in SI units. See "Versions" below for an explanation of the units.

:1 calIT = 4.1868 J (1 J = 0.23885 calIT) (International Steam Table calorie, 1956)

:1 calth = 4.184 J (1 J = 0.23901 calth) (Thermochemical calorie)

:1 cal15 = 4.18580 J (1 J = 0.23890 cal15) (15°C calorie)

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