Rice flower hurting ketosis?

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(Delbert Carr) #1

Hello All,
I’m almost 4 weeks in with Keto and it is going pretty well. I take a few supplements and try to buy the best deal. I just realized that a few of them have rice flower in them. They don’t list carbs so I assume that it is trace amounts. I am wondering if even a small amount could have an effect. Thoughts?

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #2

What food is it in?
In the UK it’s put in sausages unfortunately. Low amounts, but yeah, not great. Avoid if you can.
Chick pea flour sometimes too.
Try to stick to single ingredient foods

(KM) #3

It really depends on how many supplements you’re taking. It can add up if you’re going for a handful of pills every day; one or two would be negligible, I’d think.

(Robin) #4

Need more info to answer your question. Details, please.

(Delbert Carr) #5

Gosh, I wish I could, none of the supplements have the amount listed but I take one serving of each supplement and there already two of them. I guess my question around rice flower is rather it could easily start to become too much or not

(Cathy) #6

I doubt that the small amount that a capsule/pill would contain, would impact you on any measurable way.

(Delbert Carr) #7

@robintemplin
I may try to call customer service and see if they will tell me the amount

(KM) #8

Here’s one way to look at it, if you’re of a mathematical bent. The average pill weighs slightly less than .3 grams. Rice flour has about .8 grams of carb per gram. Simply put, if a pill consisted of nothing but rice flour, it would have about .25 grams of carb in it. Four pills, about one gram of carb.

There are lot of loose “averages” here, but the obvious take away is that the amount of carb in the pills can’t be more than the weight of the pills themselves.

(Central Florida Bob ) #9

To further go into what @kib1 says, in the US, they can call a food zero carb if the amount in one serving is 0.5 gram or less. The label (if they had one) could say those 0.25 gram pure rice flower capsules are 0 carb and be completely legal.

(Bob M) #10

Not to mention that we use ridiculous serving sizes. I was trying to compare carbs in chocolate from the same manufacturer, and they changed the serving size (in grams) between the levels of chocolate.Lower amounts of cacao appeared similar in carbs to the higher amounts of cacao, because they made the bars with the lower amounts (and higher sugar) smaller.

(Delbert Carr) #11

@kib1
This was a very helpful perspective! Thank you!