On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The calorie is a unit calories in bacardi rum energy that originated from the obsolete caloric theory of heat. For historical reasons, two main definitions of “calorie” are in wide use.

In nutrition and food science, the term calorie and the symbol cal almost always refers to the large unit. This unit was used by U. Joseph Howard Raymond, in his classic 1894 textbook A Manual of Human Physiology. In 1879, Marcellin Berthelot distinguished between gram-calorie and kilogram-calorie, and proposed using “Calorie”, with capital “C”, for the large unit.

Already in 1928 there were serious complaints about the possible confusion arising from the two main definitions of the calorie and whether the notion of using the capital letter to distinguish them was sound. The joule was the officially adopted SI unit of energy at the ninth General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1948. The alternate spelling calory is considered nonstandard and dated. The amount of energy equal to exactly 4.