HELP.
Ive just joined this forum n am desperate for an answer to my question.
coconut flour has 26 g carbs
29 g fibre
is net carbs 0g
Im literally in the middle of baking keto loaf but sat here scratching my head over this in complete confusion.
Thank you
A quick search on Google at several coconut flour labels shows coconut flour having between 20% and 33% of its carbs as sugar (when there is no added sugar).
That is in the USA where labels show total carbs and then the breakdown.
In other countries the carbs value might be listed different ways but I would assume in your case that you have 29+26=55 grams of carbs with 26 being sugar.
Most countries outside of the USA already subtract out non-digestible carbohydrates on their labels, so you would do no subtracting. That’s why you can sometimes find nutritional labels like this one where there are more fiber grams than carbohydrate grams.
So, net carbs of 26…
Let me guess: you don’t live in North America. U.S. and Canadian law require the carbohydrate amount to be stated as total carbohydrate, from which the amount of fibre can be subtracted to obtain the net carbohydrate. In Europe and most other parts of the world, the nutrition label shows net carbohydrate, and the fibre is additional to that. If the nutrition panel also shows the quantities in terms of how much per 100 g of the product, you live in Europe or some other sensible country.
So, given the quantities involved, I’d guess that these are amounts per 100 g, which means that the 26 g of carbohydrate is the the net amount per 100 g, and that the total carbohydrate per 100 g is 55 g.
Meat has zero carbs and tastes far better than anything made with coconut flour… just saying…
Where I am (UK) you don’t subtract the fibre. It’s not counted as carbohydrate in our labelling. So if it’s UK packaging, count it as 26g.
I don’t know where you’re based, but given that the fibre count is a larger number than the carbohydrate count it is either a misprint OR not meant to be subtracted.
The keto loaf sounds good though!
Thank you so much for all the helpful advice, much appreciation.
I am located in United Kingdom.
All the best.
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