Kalorisk

Kalorisk is a term primarily found in Swedish-language nutrition and food-science discourse. The root kalori- derives from the word for calorie, and the suffix -risk denotes a relation to risk or risk assessment. In this usage, kalorisk describes attributes or phenomena related to calories that have implications for health, energy balance, or dietary risk. The most common senses are: (1) caloric content or energy value of foods; (2) relative risk associated with high-calorie intake, such as obesity, metabolic disease, or overconsumption; (3) theoretical or measured aspects of energy balance in individuals or populations.

In English-language contexts the direct translation would be "calorific" or "calorie-related," but "kalorisk" is not standard English and is not widely adopted outside Swedish. When encountered in bilingual texts, translators may render it as "caloric" or specify the particular risk or energy-related context, for example "caloric risk in dietary planning" or "calorie-related health risks."

In practice, discussions using kalorisk often appear in nutrition labeling, dietary guidelines, and public health assessments that aim to quantify how caloric intake contributes to health risk, or to compare energy density across foods. It is not a fixed technical term with a universally accepted definition, and its precise meaning depends on the surrounding language and discipline.

See also: Calorie, Caloric value, Energy density, Energy balance, Obesity risk, Nutrition labeling.