Where do I find net carbs

charlenekuss70
charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I just joined this app today and I am looking under nutrition and cannot find the net carbs so I can keep track of my carbs per day can someone help me?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,665 Member
    You can set your FOOD page to display fiber, but the actual Net Carbs you'll have to either enter the food as already reflecting the net or you'll need to do the subtraction in your head. There is no Net Carb display unless the food is entered into the database that way.

    Try searching for foods by using the term "net carb" in the title.
  • charlenekuss70
    charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
    But there is so many numbers so to figure net carb I have to subtract carbs-fiber-sugar? And that is what I’m looking at?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,665 Member
    No, just subtract fiber from total carbs.
  • musicfan68
    musicfan68 Posts: 1,144 Member
    Sugar is already figured into carbs, so it's really quick and simple to figure out net carbs. It's just carbs - fiber = net carbs.
  • charlenekuss70
    charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
    So when I’m suppose to keep under 20 grams of carbs I go by my net carb?
  • charlenekuss70
    charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
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  • charlenekuss70
    charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
    So did they already do it for me? I had 8.9 grams of carbs today?
  • charlenekuss70
    charlenekuss70 Posts: 6 Member
    8.5*
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,665 Member
    edited January 2019
    The site will tell you how many carbs you have eaten (8.5) and/or how many you have left according to your Goals you have set up(147.) It's not subtracting your fiber for you, because it can't/won't.

    You can go to FOOD > Settings (on the web version) and change one of your nutrients tracked to "Fiber." Then you do the subtraction in your head.

    You've probably only had two or three grams of fiber in that meal.

  • musicfan68
    musicfan68 Posts: 1,144 Member
    edited January 2019
    You had 8.5 carbs for breakfast, now you need to subtract the fiber, if there was any, to get the net carbs. Are you doing Keto? Why only 20 carbs? If keto, yes, 20 NET carbs.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    charlenekuss70 wrote: »
    But there is so many numbers so to figure net carb I have to subtract carbs-fiber-sugar? And that is what I’m looking at?

    Net carbs is just carbs less fiber...nothing to do with sugar.

    You have to do it manually as there are entries in the database from other countries where labels display net carbs, so it's already net carbs in the database so tracking net carbs on MFP would cause further issues.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    If you are in the US or Canada, subtract fiber from carbs. If not, carbs are probably already net carbs.
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