very confused about calories in noodles

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im on a weight loss journey and lately i have been enjoying these ko-lee instant noodles. the calories on each packet say that “as prepared” its 76kcals, i googled it recently and found a reddit thread about how its lying and im now extremely scared that i have been consuming around 400 kcals of noodles. any help?

76kcal is about 400kJ, another way to measure food energy. So we are supposed to eat a 2000kcal diet OR 8700kJ. On food packaging, it will often show both kcal - what we think of as calories, and kJ.