"Other Carbohydrates"

[artgirl7]

For some reason, I must have missed this one during my readings....

How you do incorporate "other carbs" found on the nutrition label. Do you add them with the general carbs on the label?

For example, this box of Kashi cereal reads:
Total Carb: 25g
fiber" 5g
Soluble Fiber: 5g
Insoluable: 4g
Sugar: 5g
Other Carbs: 15 g

Please advise?

[Jerzaka]

Can I guess? 20 net carbs?

[2big4mysize]

do you have a typo as dietary fiber should be more. both the insoulbe and soluble fiber are both dietary fiber.




other carbohydrates are any carb not simple sugars or fiber. they used to be called complex carbohydrates. they are just there for informational purpose on your box. take your total carbs and subtract the total fiber carbs to get net carbs.

[boonie stomper]

http://www.vitacost.com/KashiCereal There's several varieties of Kashi cereal. "Other" carbs would be your digestible complex carbs; not "fiber" and not "sugar" such as you get in veggies or pasta.
Heart To Heart label:
Servings per container: About 11Amount Per Serving % Daily Value Calories 110 Calories from Fat 15 Total Fat 1.5 g 2% Saturated Fat 0 g 0% Cholesterol 0 mg 0% Sodium 90 mg 4% Potassium 120 mg 3% Total Carbohydrate 25 g 8% Dietary Fiber5 g 20% Soluble Fiber1 g Insoluble Fiber4 g Sugars5 g Other Carbohydrate 15 g Protein 4 g Vitamin A (100% as beta carotene) 25% Vitamin C 50% Calcium 0%Iron 10% Vitamin E 100% Vitamin B6 100% Folic Acid 100% Vitamin B12 100% Phosphorus 10% Magnesium 25% Zinc 10%



Other ingredients: Whole oat flour, oat bran, Florida Crystals Brand Evaporated Cane Juice, yellow corn meal, corn flour, Kashi Seven Whole Grains & Sesame Flour (whole: oats, long grain brown rice, rye, hard red winter wheat, triticale, buckwheat, barley, sesame seeds), oat fiber, wheat germ, honey, salt, sodium bicarbonate, natural honey flavor, decaffeinated green tea extract, alpha tocopherol (natural vitamin E), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), ActiVin® grape seed extract, tomato extract, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), ferrous fumarate, zinc oxide, turmeric for color, beta carotene (a source of vitamin A), folic acid, vitamin B12.

[Jerzaka]

When I first read this post I only saw the nutritional label. I didn't realize it was Kashi!!! OMG - I "loved" that cereal!!

[artgirl7]

Thanks guys...

The dietary fiber is 5g. It is Kashi Heart to heart cereal. Very good, as long as you watch the portion size.

So, do I add carbs plus "other carbs" and then subtract the fiber. And, do I subtract both insoluble and insolable?

Sorry, I don't come across this too often and wanted to make sure I was understanding things correctly.

[2big4mysize]

see the word dietary fiber on your label that is your total fiber in the cereal subtract that from the total carbohydrates and you have the cereal's net carbs so 25 minus 5 would give you 20 net carbs

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