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Old January 5th, 2007, 11:45 PM
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Question a dumb question, but....

i was just wondering,

whats the difference (if there is one) between CARBS, and NET CARBS?!


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Net carbs would be Carbs minus fiber and/or sugar alcohols
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Oh, and that wasn't a dumb question at all! Say you are eating broccoli and it says 6 carbs per serving but then lists 3 grams of fiber, then you have 3 net carbs of broccoli.
You are allowed up to 20 net carbs per day. Hope this helps!
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Or just total carbs - fiber in the purest sense.
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Atkid explained it well for anyone in USA, but for anyone this side of the pond and I think in many other non-USA countries the carb counts are shown differently on our labels.
Outside USA many labels show the carb count of foods without including fibre (fiber in USA) and list fibre carbs in a separate part of the label.
So for the example Atkid mentioned the same product in UK would be listed as having 3 total carbohydrates with fibre of 3 carbs mentioned later down the label in a section of its own. So we dont deduct fibre from the listed 'total carbs'.
Complicated isnt it (sigh) but it does become easier as you get used to the way your part of the world does its labels
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I didn't know i could minus the sugar alchohols. Is that true?
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I didn't know i could minus the sugar alchohols. Is that true?
There's no such thing as mythical magical carbs that don't count, despite what the low-carb junk food manufacturers want us to believe.

Sugar alcohols *do* impact blood sugar. That's why they trigger cravings like they do. Some of them have up to 75% the calorie content that sugar does (how do you have calories if you have no carb?!).

Safe- Count at least half the carbs.
Safer- Count *all* the carbs.
Safest- Avoid them.

But don't totally deduct them.

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Default Re: a dumb question, but....

thanks for the respones everyone!!

lol i didnt even know there was a diffrence.

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