Great net carb chocolate bar

(Matthew Kaye) #1

Anyone else had these?
7.5g Carbs
5.4g Fibre
2.1g Net Carbs

Anymore good ones? Only started Keto on Monday and finally in Keto Coma!

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(Bob M) #2

No!

:grinning:

Seriously, I’ve never seen those. Any of the 85% or above are good, but it takes a while to be able to eat them. They still taste quite a bit like dirt to me.

(Matthew Kaye) #3

Haha. I’m a novice with keto but from a pure keto point of view they are good right?

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #4

Saw these advertised on UK TV recently. As far as I can tell from the UK nutritional info (where the fibre is already accounted for and not needing to be subtracted), they’ve got 7.4g carbohydrate per bar. :chocolate_bar:

https://www.nestleprofessional.co.uk/yes-snacks/sea-salt-dark-chocolate-nut-bar

(Matthew Kaye) #5

I don’t get it, is this not 7.4g minus 5.4g?

(mole person) #6

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No. The 7.4 grams are already the net.

(Matthew Kaye) #7

How do you know?

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #8

Not if it’s UK packaging. In US the labelling is different, in that the ‘total carb’ figure includes the fibre. If you want to calculate the ‘net carbs’ you need to subtract the fibre listed.

So if this was a US product then yes, you’d be right.

But UK labelling is different, and the ‘total carb’ figure doesn’t include the fibre. Ironically in UK labelling the ‘total carb’ figure is what in US is called ‘net carb’.

In my last post I didn’t say a big hi and welcome to the forum! Hi and welcome to the keto lifestyle! :+1:

(mole person) #9

Because it’s off a UK website and that’s how they do their labelling. Notice that the sugar plus fiber is equal to more than the “carbohydrate” line? That’s because the fiber isn’t included.

(Matthew Kaye) #10

Please clarify this for me as I have been subtracting the fibre from the carb count. Is this right… In the UK?

Here is the info from the back of the packet

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(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #11

Until I started cruising food and health websites a couple of years ago I had had no idea that our labelling and US labelling had such a difference! :thinking: And I’ve been carb counting for diabetes control since the 1980s! :rofl:

(mole person) #12

No, the ‘carbohydrate’ line is the net carbs in the UK.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #13

Afraid not - here in UK the fibre is always listed separately and should not be subtracted. It’s the total carbohydrate you need to count (which confusingly is what they call net on US packaging).

On UK packaging the figure you’re looking for is ‘carbohydrate’ or ‘total carbohydrate’. Just ignore the fibre figure.

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(Matthew Kaye) #14

Brilliant, been doing it wrong all bloody week!

Still, 7.5g isn’t bad. Are there any better ones?

(Matthew Kaye) #15

Also how come for almonds the fibre count is higher than the carb count?

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #16

Naaah, you’re doing great! Keep going! Try a square of 85% plain chocolate. Last night Mr S and I each had a square of choc and today I made the rest of the bar into chocolate mousse today, which I scoffed - washed down with a glass of whisky - when I got home from a meeting about an hour ago. Now that was a snack worth waiting for! :+1:

(mole person) #17

It’s good for a chocolate bar but not really keto unless you are pretty much a carnivore otherwise. 7.5 g of carbs is over 35% of the 20 gram limit most of us follow. It’s hard to make that fit.

(Matthew Kaye) #18

Haha nice!

I’ve been resorting to pork crackling and cheese. Would prefer some fruit but today was the first time I’ve managed to hit a sub 40g carb count, that’s also with burning 3.8k calories

(mole person) #19

It’s the same reason. In the UK fibre is already subtracted out of the ‘carbohydrate’ number.

(Matthew Kaye) #20

I don’t think you have to hit 20g to lose weight if your very active which is why I aim for 40g.

I might reduce it thought if I’m not seeing improvements