Celery...Uh oh!

[Danielle37]

Okay I have a question...according to atkins one celery stalk is worth 0.8 net carbs however fitday is telling me that COOKED celery is 6.3carbs for three stalks. I had three stalks cooked in a little bit of vegetable oil..is me cooking the celery increasing the carbs? I'm quite confused!!

Also about the fat intake should we worry about consuming too much fat still like a normal diet..?


thanks

[Georgiana]

No, cooking a food does not increase its carb count, although it might shrink its volume (e.g. 1 cup of cooked spinach is much more than 1 cup of loosely packed raw spinach).

Going back to celery... The reason Fitday shows that huge number of carbs for "Celery, cooked" is that it assumes you are using a standard recipe. At our university canteen for example, they add broth and maple syrup to it. But if you are cooking a meal yourself, just enter separately the raw ingredients you are using.

[liv]

I always use raw with Fitday. Sometimes their cooked things really are spacy.

[DebbieW]

My scariest moment with Fitday was a 4oz cooked onion coming out at...........wait for it ( drum roll) 25.6 g of carbs!!!! scared me rigid! absoloutely sure it is not right



Ciao xx

[Elizellen]

Wow!! did you find out why it came to such a high carb amount?

[DebbieW]

I never did Elizellen maybe it has a high natual sugar content or something! but even on that great list ( sorry I can't remember who did it) with foods listed & colour coded for all stages of Atkins, 1 cup ( 160g) of Onion came out at 13 grams so I guess they are just naturally high in carbs. Shame because I love onion

Ciao xx

[liv]

Yes onions are carby. On induction I used green onions to get the carb count down.

[Sherri]

Along with what Liv suggest. Leeks are another low glycemic/low carb choice along with the green onion.

[DebbieW]

When you say Green onions do you mean Scallions? (spring onions here in the UK)

Ciao xx

[liv]

Yup - those things