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Doesn't the USA use the word "calories" sometimes for kilocalories in food? So they divide the actual amount of calories by 1000. They also round certain things down, so that when they say "zero calories", the can can actually have "3600 calories"?
Yes, and then they have a whole thing about how under 5 kcal per serving can be rounded to zero because it's negligible.
That's why despite nobody on the planet having ever eaten a single tic tac at a time, the serving size is 1 tic tac. That's only 4 kcal, so in the US they can call it a "calorie-free snack"
kCal is a normal measurement in the UK too. I think anything being 4 kCal is probably negligible
Rounding happens but no, you'll find nothing when that kind of delta and it'll be of zero consequences.