Caloric

Caloric may refer to:

Companies and products

• Caloric (automobile), American automobile company
• Caloric (brand), American brand of kitchen appliances

Nutrition

• Calorie, also known as caloric value, a unit of energy
• Caloric deficit, consumption of fewer calories than expended
• Caloric restriction mimetic, hypothetical anti-ageing dietary supplement or drug candidate
• Calorie restriction, also known as caloric restriction, a dietary regimen
• Food energy, also known as caloric intake, chemical energy animals derive from food
• Energy density, also known as caloric concentration, energy per unit volume
• Sugar substitute, also known as non-caloric sweetener, sugarless food additive intended to provide a sweet taste
• Weight gain, also known as caloric surplus, increase in a person's total body mass

Science and medicine

• Caloric theory, a superseded scientific theory
  • Hot air engine, also known as caloric engine, external combustion engine using air as the working fluid
• Caloric polynomial, a polynomial solution to the heat (or diffusion) equation in mathematics
• Caloric reflex test, test of the vestibulo-ocular reflex

Other uses

• Caloric ship Ericsson, American wooden side-wheel paddle steamer (1852–1892)
• Ceramic heat cell, also known as caloric porous structure cell, a ceramic device that burns fuel without a flame, converting thermal energy into mechanical work
• Punsch, also known as Caloric Punch, an alcoholic beverage

See also

• Calorie (disambiguation)