So I found out about netrition.com and went wild ordering foods online. I found sugar free ketchup! Sugarfree maple sirup! WOW!
And I also ordered some slim fast fat bombs.
Now I know fat bombs to be all fat. No carbs. Just fat. So I ate 2 of them ( yummy- with chocolate) and then I read the label and it said it has 4% carbs. I have no idea what 4% means? I would really like to know how many carbs per portion, but it doesn’t really say that directly. So I think I have been screwed for today. Looks like this is a trick waiting to happen. I don’t think it is a true “fat bomb” at all! How much is 4%?
And there were a lot of things I ordered that say “sugar free”. But I guess this doesnt mean they are carb free. So the sugar free maple sirup says 2 tbsp are a portion and that portion contains 3% carbs. So how many carbs does this mean? Is % = grams? So that means 3 carbs per 2 tbsp?
The meringues I ordered say 10 pieces contain 4% carbs. The carbs are in “sugar alcohol”. What is this? And again- what is 4% carbs?
HELP!
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Depends on who you ask. Sugar alcohols are artificial sweeteners that aren’t supposed to affect your blood sugar, although that usually depends more on the person. Some say you still have to count them towards your daily carb count, some say you can subtract the alcohols from the total carbs like you do with fiber.
Labels of “sugar free” or “no sugar added” can be very misleading for keto. In many cases, they can be loaded with starch or “natural” sugars. For example, “sugar free” puddings usually have a lot of corn starch, which is almost all carbs by weight (an 11-gram serving of Jello “sugar free” pudding mix has 8 grams of carbs).
Generally, there are three things to be concerned about for net carbs (i.e. “digestible carbs”):
- Fiber. Most forms are not digestible, so they can generally be subtracted out.
- Sugar alcohols vary in digestibility. Some, like erythritol, can be subtracted out completely. Others, like Xylitol and Sorbitol and Maltitol, still have over 2 calories per gram, so should really only be half-subtracted. A comparison of Glycemic Index for sweeteners.
- Allulose is a sugar, but has nearly no digestible component (1/10th that of regular sugar). But because it’s listed on nutritional labels as part of the carbohydrates, there’s no way to subtract it out (I think this is changing). But most products using Allulose will state the net carbs on their packaging.
Also, be aware that 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 where there are more fiber grams than carbohydrate grams.
I made a list last year of some of the keto items I have gotten from Netrition:
Love the Guy’s and G. Hughes “sugar free” BBQ sauces. For ketchup, I always get the Heinz reduced sugar ketchup. I get the Heinz and G. Hughes items at Walmart.
Thx guys. I bought the sugar free Heinz ketchup too. Just because I think a hamburger needs ketchup. The bottle was tiny though. Half the size of a regular bottle. The fresh foods I cannot buy because I am about 6000 miles away.
What does 2 calories per gram mean? I count carbs in grams, not calories.This is confusing.
But my problem is the “6% carbs” because I still don’t know how to compute that.
As an aside- there was something on here about a dessert made with jello and cream. Anybody? It even had some name that I cannot remember. I ask because I just put in another order and got the sugar free jello too. Hopefully that isn’t also full of unwanted carb surprises.
I am starting to itch again so I must still have some ketones in me. Never thought I would be happy about it.
Example: dates are technically “no sugar added”, but they are essentially pure sugar bombs. The sugar doesn’t need to be “added” to be digested and to affect your body.
No “added” sugar can be a red herring. Same with “natural” sugar, honey, agave, etc. When a sweetener is 95% glucose and/or fructose, does it really matter that it comes with a tiny dose of vitamins and minerals?
The reason I cited that is because sugar and “normal” carbs have 4 calories per gram. Proteins have 4 calories per gram. Fat has 9 calories per gram. Those 2 calories and the glycemic response indicates those “bad” sugar alcohols shouldn’t be completely ignored when computing net carbs.
But calories are measured in the lab. That doesn’t necessarily speak to what the body absorbs, or how it processes it. For example, a gram of fiber in the lab may contain 4 calories of energy, but none of it is digested and absorbed by the body.
I still don’t have an answer. If a portion has 4% carbs - then how many grams of carbs is that supposed to be?
They came out with a larger sized bottle early last year. I bought a dozen of them because they were very cheap. I normally pay $2.08 for the 13.3-oz bottles at Walmart. But when they introduced the 29.5 oz bottles, I bought 5 for $3.79 each from Target. A few months later, Walmart had them on a rollback special, so I picked up a dozen of the large bottles for $2.48 each. Now $3.98.
Target charges $3.19 for the small and $3.79 for the large.
So now, I have a closet full of ketchup. And a spicy jalapeno mustard (which is typically hard to get, but also went on sale very cheaply so I bought a few cases). 
A couple years ago, I had a closet full of Rao’s Marinara because jet.com was selling the 15.5-oz jars for $2.49. I mentioned it on Reddit and people were saying they were sold out a few hours later.
I like my spices and sauces!
Who knew? I am still in ketosis according to the keto sticks AND my itching. Seems the itch subsides after you eat anything, and returns a few hours later. Maybe I will have some more of those chocolate “fat bombs” which aren’t totally fat tomorrow??? 
Get the calories per serving from the side of the package. Multiply times .04. Divide that number by 4. That is your carbs per serving.
It’s still not food, but at least you’ll have an idea of how many carbs are in the product. Bear in mind though that companies routinely lie about the nutrition info, and fake keto food companies are probably the worst offenders. To be on the safe side, multiply whatever carbs they’ve gone to great lengths to make it difficult to understand, and multiply by 2.
So:
((Calories per serving * .04)/4) * 2
Those aren’t intended to measure nutritional ketosis.
Of the three types of ketones (acetate, acetoacetate, and beta-hydroxybutyrate) produced by your body, ketostix only measure acetoacetate . This is extremely important to understand, because it turns out that your body produces different quantities of these different types of ketones depending on how long you’ve been in ketosis. If you’ve been in ketosis for a while, you’re going to see a reduction in the “intensity” of what you register on your ketostix
It depends on the portion size.
Say, for example, you have a 40g portion.
Then, 4% of that would be 1.6g 