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More dietary fiber than carbs?

Heathe_r
Heathe_r Posts: 61 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
From my understanding,
Carbs - dietary fiber = net carbs

How can there be more fiber than carbs?!5exn9bbqvgt7.jpg

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  • Heathe_r
    Heathe_r Posts: 61 Member
    Thanks!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2020
    Heathe_r wrote: »
    From my understanding,
    Carbs - dietary fiber = net carbs

    How can there be more fiber than carbs?!5exn9bbqvgt7.jpg

    To me this looks like the "total carbs" is already net carbs. This is common in the UK and Europe and elsewhere...not as common in the USA, but that's not to say it doesn't happen.
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Heathe_r wrote: »
    From my understanding,
    Carbs - dietary fiber = net carbs

    How can there be more fiber than carbs?!5exn9bbqvgt7.jpg

    To me this looks like the "total carbs" is already net carbs. This is common in the UK and Europe and elsewhere...not as common in the USA, but that's not to say it doesn't happen.

    Yeah, I think it's pretty inconsistent in the US. I would get some lentils that were 70cal for 32g, and some that were 130cal for 32g, lol. Both were just green lentils.
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