Net Carbs v total


(Martin Bailey) #1

Do you do net carbs or total carbs. Sometimes net carbs don’t add up (or substract). Example, packet of whole almonds from Aldi supermarket. Per 100g, carbs 9.1 of which sugar 4.4, fibre 13. This gives net carbs of - 3.9. How can you have minus carbs?


#2

I am sorry but you are ‘under the Zero Carb/Carnivore’ category where you posted your thread :slight_smile: We don’t eat almonds or do plants and we are a whole diff plan so I suggest putting this under a ‘new to keto and need help’ type thing.

wishing you the best.


(Martin Bailey) #3

Sorry posted here by mistake. Question was answered some time ago


#4

Changed the category…


#5

cool all


(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #6

For anyone encountering this thread, the example given in the original post is a European/British-style nutrition label. The amount given for carbohydrate on such labels is the net amount, excluding fibre. Since the fibre has already been subtracted, those people who are counting their net carbohydrate intake need no further artihmetic. Those counting total carbohydrate intake would need to add the fibre amount to the carbohydrate amount shown.

This is different from U.S./Canadian-style labels, where the carbohyrate amount shown is total carbohydrate. Those who are counting their total carb intake are the ones who need no further arithmetic, whereas those who want to count net carb intake would need to subtract the fibre amount from the carbohydrate amount shown.