Hi,
I’ve just made this variation on soda bread, my own twist and tbh it tastes amazing when covered in butter, but then what doesn’t taste great with butter?
Anyway, looking at the nutrition, 2g of sugars, 3g fibre, but it says total of 7g. So, what are the missing carbs?
In all likelihood, the missing carbs are a combination of starches and rounding errors.
The missing carbs from the calculation would be starches of some form. In your body, they break down and become glucose.
If you’re calculating net carbs, you should take total carbs, and subtract fiber, and what’s left is net (aka stuff that is sugar or will turn to sugar in your body).
Keep in mind that some people may prefer to use total rather than net carbs, if they find that using net doesn’t provide the results they want.
That’s a debatable point.
Sugar is typically sucrose, which is a glucose and fructose combo molecule. Both substrates are broken down in your body differently, so they are not metabolically equal. To put it simply, glucose ends up in your blood, and fructose is processed by your liver, making triglycerides, and which can lead to problems if too much is ingested (ie fatty liver disease).
Starches, on the other hand, are glucose molecules attached, as long chains. So, when broken down, they (the glucose parts) follow the same metabolic process as the glucose part of the sucrose (glucose + fructose) molecule.
To me…it’s all sugar. I don’t care if corn starch and wheat flour isn’t sweet when you taste it. My body doesn’t give a crap if the glucose came from flour or an apple. It’s all the same. To other people, they consider sugar and starches as separate.
Lol, that’s MyFitnessPal not showing it right, it’s ground flaxseed.
