Quest calorie confusion?!? Halp! I can't maths today!

SnuggleSmacks
SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
edited July 2015 in Food and Nutrition
So, I noticed that my numbers weren't matching up...I have calories leftover where I shouldn't because I don't have so many carbs leftover. And I figured out that it's coming from my Lemon Pie Quest bar. I checked the label, and it matches, but the math just doesn't add up:

Protien = 20
Fat = 5
Carbs = 26

20 x 4 = 80
5 x 9 = 45
26 x 4 = 104
=229

Total calories are 160. How? What am I missing? I know that we can subtract fiber from carbs to get net carbs, but can the company subtract fiber from the total calories? At 17 grams fiber, this is the only thing that makes sense. Do all companies do this?

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  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,739 Member
    They can do that because fiber is undigestible....or passes straight through you....or something like that. :)

    So netcarbwise it adds up perfectly (well, it's 1 calorie off).
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    glassyo wrote: »
    They can do that because fiber is undigestible....or passes straight through you....or something like that. :)

    So netcarbwise it adds up perfectly (well, it's 1 calorie off).

    This. They don't count fiber.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    Maybe I've just never noticed that reflected in the total calories because I've not eaten such high fiber foods before? I dunno...but now I have calories leftover and nowhere to put them because I've used up my macros. I'm sure this would mean I have carbs leftover, but I'm reluctant to use them because I feel like I've eaten them already.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    SnuggleSmacks wrote: »
    Maybe I've just never noticed that reflected in the total calories because I've not eaten such high fiber foods before? I dunno...but now I have calories leftover and nowhere to put them because I've used up my macros. I'm sure this would mean I have carbs leftover, but I'm reluctant to use them because I feel like I've eaten them already.

    Don't get hung up so much on macros. Seriously. Just use protein and fat as minimum and ignore carbs. It really doesn't matter that much.

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