So one of my pre-keto favorite breakfasts was as follows. Sautee onions in oil, add chorizo and brown, add chopped tomato. Stir in some eggs til scrambled in and cooked. Now back in the day it went on a tortilla with some beans but today (literally) I made a bunch for lunch. MMM. loved it. Then I started adding it in to cronometer knowing onions and tomatoes would have some carbs. But the chorizo had way more than I expected. I get mine from a Mexican butcher so there was no “nutritional label” but every chorizo on the cronometer list showed more carbs than both the onions and tomatoes combined. I expect some carbs in my eggs but the very “non sweet” chorizo surprised me. I normally check sausages (since some of them have a lot more carbs than others) but not today. But it is yummy
Chorizo. More carbs than I had guessed!
I took a look around Food Data Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and found chorizos with carb content ranging from 0 to 10.5 grams per 100 g of product. The most common number, for some reason, was 3.57 g/100 g. One brand, with 4 g/100 g, had 2.7 g of added sugar, but most of them had no sugar, and most of those that did had no added sugar. So it seems that the carb content of this type of sausage can vary significantly. Are you able to tell where the Cronometer values you looked at came from? I believe Cronometer uses a lot of USDA data, but they do accept user input as well.
Not obvious. I tracked the nutritional label down for several and none had obvious added sugars (that I had seen) but several had some Darby thing as the last or next to last ingredient. In reality i have room in the carb count so it is not a big deal…just a surprise!