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Chemists often burn the food with another type of fuel in a sealed container called a calorimeter. The heat from combustion then heats up water around the combustion chamber. If for example you burn x amount of fuel in this same calorimeter and the water temperature goes up 1 degree, and with this same x amount of fuel plus the food of interest the water goes up 2 degrees, you know that the food caused a 1 degree temperature change. I believe 1 cal is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1g of water (or 1ml) 1 degree Celsius.

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