Confused-Carbs in Mini bell peppers!

Nilo555 · February 2019

Hello Everyone, I have been using my fitness pal for a long time on and off and this is my first post. I am little bit confused how the carbs are being calculated. On the bag of mini bell peppers it says it has 5g of Carbs in one serving and when I add one serving to my snack it shows 83g. I deleted and added 1 cup of bed bell peppers and it shows 85g of carbs. This cannot be correct. How can 3 mini bell peppers or red bell peppers have so many carbs?. More then the lentils and brown rice.

Alalai · February 2019

I looked it up and it is 5g of carbs you are looking at the % which is 83% crabs and 17% protein. So you're good.

Nilo555 · February 2019

Thank you. So does it mean 5 gram of Carb is equal to 83% of the peppers and rest 17% of the peppers is protein.

JeromeBarry1 · February 2019

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/45226644?fgcd=&manu=&format=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=default&order=asc&qlookup=peppers,+bell,+raw&ds=&qt=&qp=&qa=&qn=&q=&ing=
The carbs in 100 g of bell pepper are 4.71 g. The protein is 1.18 g

This next is the listing I use:
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/11333?fgcd=&manu=&format=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=default&order=asc&qlookup=Peppers,+sweet,+green,+raw&ds=&qt=&qp=&qa=&qn=&q=&ing=
Here, the 100 g of bell pepper has 4.64 g carbs and 0.86 g protein.

ljmorgi · February 2019

Alalai wrote: »

I looked it up and it is 5g of carbs you are looking at the % which is 83% crabs and 17% protein. So you're good.

Off to check the peppers in the fridge for sea life, brb.

Nilo555 · February 2019

Thank you for all your time and efforts to look into this. I am just learning 😊

cwolfman13 · February 2019

Nilo555 wrote: »

Thank you. So does it mean 5 gram of Carb is equal to 83% of the peppers and rest 17% of the peppers is protein.

It means that 83% of the calories are coming from carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are 4 calories per gram...so 20 calories are coming from carbohydrates and the rest from protein.

Confused-Carbs in Mini bell peppers!

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