I found these pickles at a grocery store.
A pickle is about 80g
Each pickle has a breakdown of…
(If not listed = 0)
Calories 9g
Sodium 785 mg (=.785g)
Carbs breakdown = 1mg carb (0.001g)
Fiber = 1g
Which means for every pickle I eat I gain a net carb back technically or I guess I could say is that it is a free pickle.
I think in Europe, fibre is not part of the carb total. However that label confuses me, as it implies that the fibre is part of the carb total as it seems to be listed as a subtotal under the carbs. Maybe it is labelled for the Canadian market?? Not sure on Canadian rules.
I rather fancy that the 1mg number is wrong. If 1mg of carbs is 1% of the daily value, then the daily value is 1g. That would be good for a keto diet (
), but is clearly not what is intended.
So I have checked a chocolate bar to compare. It’s pretty much like in USA.
Example: (random kids chocolate bar aero)
Carbohydrate 26g
Fiber 1g
Sugars 25g
Everything under carbs is indented but I still have to manually remove the fiber from the total carb count.
The fella at a health food store also minus out the fiber from the way the labels are written here in Canada. So the pickles still look too good to be true. They do taste greet.
Not possible! If it’s 1g. of fiber which sounds reasonable the carb count on the label should also read at least 1g. So I think it’s a label error, someone else posted one the other day that was obviously off. It happens. The other possibility is that the fiber doesn’t need to be subtracted, it’s already been done and for some unfathomable reason the company feels that claiming 1mg of carbohydrate is something worth listing?
Sounds like they’re trying to be more honest than the US nutritional listings! A low bar, I admit!
I’ve set it in my app so it’s 1g Fiber and 1g Carb so it’s a zero.
But still, maybe it’s brine or how they let it fermented?
Kinda like sour krout. It’s a net zero as well.
Fermentation can reduce carbohydrates almost 80% in sauerkraut. The lactic fermentation process feeds on the sugar content in the vegetables. I make lots of fermented vegetables and pickles. For instance steamed shredded cabbage is 5.4g net carbs and the same quantity of sauerkraut is 1.2g net. Cabbage, just add salt and time. They are fermented pickles since vinegar isn’t listed as an ingredient. Also the cloudy brine indicates fermented.
