Shroom Confusion

(Steve ) #1

Are portobello mushrooms low carb? I planned on having some huge mushrooms tonight with bacon and cheese topping the nutritional info on the pack states per 100g, 0.30g carbs, 0.30g sugars, 0.70g fibre this matched MFP when I scanned them. When I checked on Google it came back per 100g, 3.9g carbs, 1.3g fibre, 2.5g sugar. Am I missing something obvious or am I getting it totally wrong?.

(German Ketonian) #2

MFP sucks when it comes to rather unknown products (millions of wrong entries). Always go with the label. Apart from that: all unprocessed products are natural products and contain quite some variance in their macro nutritional profile. You will find the same for nuts, veggies, lettuce, etc.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #3

If MFP matches the label, I think you’re okay. Yes it can have bad entries, but if the two match up, I would use it. There’s a lot of crap that comes up under Google too for that matter.

(Sophie) #4

@matt turned me on to this site when I had questions about dill weed. It’s worth bookmarking. And I agree with @Zimon, MFP does have a sucky database.

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/301906?manu=&fgcd=&ds=&q=Mushrooms,%20portabella,%20raw

(bulkbiker) #5

Interesting my usual sources of data (UK supermarket websites) all have carbs at 0.3g per 100g (that’s net for you US guys) fibre is quoted separately at 0.7g per 100g.
So either US mushrooms have added sugar! or someone has got it wrong…
I’ll agre that MFP has a crap database… and if the USDA one is available for free why didn’t they just use that rather than all the incorrect user additions?