Energy is energy, a calorie is a calorie in gasoline, food or electricity. However when talking about nutrition labels, those are generally an estimate of calories potentially extracted by humans (which I think is what you mean with nutritional calories). I&#x27;m not confusing anything. But some people seem convinced that the car analogy is exactly how the human body works - you put food into your mouth and it gets &quot;burned&quot; by exercise or stored (calories in, calories out) and no amount of evidence or science seems to convince them otherwise.