Many of us use
www.fitday.com to log our food intake, which has a fairly accurate database of carb contents of many foods (taken from the USDA database).
It has heavy cream as being 6.6 carbs per cup, so 1/4 cup would have 1.7 carbs.
Depending on which salad veg from the allowed list you choose, the carbs would vary.
1 cup of iceberg lettuce has 0.3 net carbs
1 cup of red peppers has 6.6 net carbs
1 cup of radishes has 2.3 net carbs
1 cup of sliced cucumbers has 2.2 net carbs
1 cup of jicama has 5.1 net carbs
1 cup of chives has 0.9 carbs
As we are supposed to get 'most' of our 20 net carbs from our vegetables it means we need to choose some of the more carby veg (2 cups from the salad veg list + 1 cup from the other veg list) in order to be able to include other foods like cheese (Dr Atkins told us to count 1 net carb per ounce of cheese no matter what the actual carb count) and cream and sweetener packets (again, count 1 net carb per packet or spoon of these).
If we choose to eat 3 cups of iceberg lettuce (0.9 net carbs)we can only allow ourselves about 0.5 carbs of the non-veg foods in order to keep to Dr Atkins rule #3
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3. Eat no more than 20 grams a day of carbohydrate, most of which must come in the form of salad greens and other vegetables. You can eat approximately three cups-loosely packed-of salad, or two cups of salad plus one cup of other vegetables (see the list of acceptable vegetables on pages 125-126).
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So it is more a case of finding out which of the allowed veg have a fair number of carbs in order to get close to the 20 net carb maximum rather than finding out which have the least carbs in order to eat the least possible number of carbs on induction!