Available carbs vs carbs
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judyvalentine512
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I hope I can explain this right. This is how it is explained to me by the CDA.
When counting carbs in a food, you take the carbs minus fibre, and that is the available carbs in that particular food.
For instance 2 bread have 35 carbs and 7 grams of fibre which means the available carbs are 28.
Also, they consider Most veggies carb free because of the effort to process them in your body and that they don't signifantly raise your blood sugar.
So, I track my carbs in MFP, but in my book, I always do the math to figure out how many carbs a day I've had.
I've also decided to stop marking the veggies I eat, other than the starchy ones, and those suggested by the CDA.
How does the ADA look at these things? I'm guessing it must be pretty similar?
When counting carbs in a food, you take the carbs minus fibre, and that is the available carbs in that particular food.
For instance 2 bread have 35 carbs and 7 grams of fibre which means the available carbs are 28.
Also, they consider Most veggies carb free because of the effort to process them in your body and that they don't signifantly raise your blood sugar.
So, I track my carbs in MFP, but in my book, I always do the math to figure out how many carbs a day I've had.
I've also decided to stop marking the veggies I eat, other than the starchy ones, and those suggested by the CDA.
How does the ADA look at these things? I'm guessing it must be pretty similar?
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I think this may be the same thing that some articles, food labels, etc. refer to as "net carbs".0
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Yes, I did find an article on the ADA about this, right after I posted of course. And yes it's net carbs. So the same principle.0
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