Carbs on a label = fiber + sugar + ??????

witcherkar
witcherkar Posts: 138 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so im drinking the walmart brand of glucerna. When reading the label it says total carbs are 23 grams. Fiber is 3 grams. Sugar is 6 grams. What are the other 14 grams of carbs???? Do they impact your sugar and insulin in the body??

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  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    All carbs count for diabetics. Carbs also include all the starches.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited August 2017
    witcherkar wrote: »
    Okay so im drinking the walmart brand of glucerna. When reading the label it says total carbs are 23 grams. Fiber is 3 grams. Sugar is 6 grams. What are the other 14 grams of carbs???? Do they impact your sugar and insulin in the body??

    Carbs are broken down into 3 components...sugar, fiber, and starch...fiber is listed, sugar is listed, the rest is starch.

    For a diabetic, all carbs matter...
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    K, I pulled a nutrition fact sheet on Glucerna.

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    The carbohydrate sources listed below include corn maltodextrin, glycerine, fructose, and scFOS. Thanks to your inquiry I now know that scFOS stands for short-chain fructoligosaccharides (low calorie non digestible carbohydrates).
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