Math Problem: Finding the carbs in 40% milk fat whipping cream


(Stickin' with mammoth) #21

Alrighty, then.

Just got off the phone with the manufacturer of my whipping cream and they said it’s 3 g of carbs per 100 g of whipping cream. But whipping cream and water don’t weigh the same, so the standard conversion won’t work from the 15 ml serving size they list on the label.

So, I measured out exactly 100 g of the stuff on my digital kitchen scale and got about 1 T. shy of half a cup. Insert math and you get 0.428 g of carbs per tablespoon. Which doesn’t stack up with their “<1 g carb” label and the FDA guidelines.

So, I’m puttin’ it down to around 0.5 g of carbs per serving and calling it a day. Hopefully, the keto revolution will compel companies to list finer nutritional details on their labels in the future.

(sips coffee)


#23

Search a British supermarket (Morrisons, Sainsburys, Waitrose) for cream.

Find a cream with 40% fat content and use that nutritional information.

Nutritional information on UK and EU foods is expressed per 100 grams, and some are also in (of course variable) portion sizes.

So just use what ever proportion of 100 your serving size is.

Avoids maths.

NB there will be two values for carbohydrate - digestible = sugars, and indigestible = fibre.