Does this sound right to you? (Frozen veggies question)

[stephbob]

I cooked a bag of frozen vegetables I found lurking in the freezer. I usually only use fresh vegetables, but I'm at my mums house for a couple of weeks.

I read the ingrediants, as usually. All it contains is eggplant, onion, peppers, tomatoes and zucchini, using vegetable oil (already cooked in it I suppose) All allowed on our induction list - even 5 years down the line, I checked the wallet list just incase

The bag was marked at 700g, but in all honesty, even in it's frozen state it was probably 2 servings at the most. Yet the carb content was listed at 5g per 80g, both frozen and cooked.

That means that a normal serving as per our cup sizes would be well over 20g! Surely that can't be right.

Am I having a blonde moment?

[Georgiana]

Hmm... A cup of tomatoes (raw) is about 180 g. A cup of zucchini is about 113 g. A cup of onion, chopped, is 160 g. A cup of eggplant, cubed, is 80 g. A cup of peppers, chopped, is 150 g. So assuming these are mixed in equal volumes, a cup would have about 135 g. That's about 8.5 carbs per cup.

I'm not sure how you got 20+ carbs per cup...

[stephbob]

Well the bag is marked 700g in total. I cooked the whole bag, but when I was putting it in, I only got 2.5 cups out of the whole bag. That works out at 280g of veggies per cup, and if 80g of veggies = 5g of carbs, as per the bag, then I work that out to be 17.5g of carbs per cup. It just seems exceptionally high to me.