Erythritol count it?

(Caryn ) #1

Can anyone tell me if you count the carbs in Erythritol or not? Keto rule had a recipe that fitness pal calculated at 30 gm carbs. Recipe says closer to 6. When asked about it, they say not to count Erythritol carbs because they just pass through the body. Haven’t found this info anywhere else

(Diane) #2

Here’s what I found:

“1. Check the product’s sugar alcohol content. If it is greater than 5 grams, subtract half the grams of sugar alcohols from the total carbohydrates and count this as the “available carbohydrate” for insulin adjustment purposes. However, if erythritol is the only sugar alcohol listed, subtract all of the grams of sugar alcohol.”

This was from the following article:

I thought this was an interesting post, found more detailed information regarding net carbs than I had seen before.

Hope this helps!

#3

If you check this, you’ll see a chart showing calories for the various sugar alcohols. I think the above advice is based on Erythritol having almost no calories per gram, while common sugar alcohols like Sorbitol, Xylitol, Maltitol, and Isomalt still have over 2 calories per gram. So if the sweetener is one of those “bad” ones, only half the sugar alcohols should be subtracted out.

This is one reason I think the U.S. nutritional labels should be changed to match the rest of the world, so that “Carbohydrates” on a nutritional label is digestible carbohydrates. Then there would be no guessing depending on which sugar alcohols or soluble fibers or allulose ingredients are in a product.