Low carb label reading

Cringer

Hi all

Am looking at the label below and wondering about the carb count.

On a low carb diet where sugar is the main thing to avoid does this label mean that there is 1.2g of sugar out of the 42.8g total carb and that really it's the sugar count I need to watch rather than the carb total?





Thanks in advance

EileenG

If you are counting carbs, look at the total number of carbs. You may subtract the fiber, but everything else counts. Rice cakes, for instance, claim to have no sugar, but they turn to sugar as soon as you eat them. You need to look at the total carbs, not sugar carbs.

Mellor

Cringer wrote: »

On a low carb diet where sugar is the main thing to avoid does this label mean that there is 1.2g of sugar out of the 42.8g total carb and that really it's the sugar count I need to watch rather than the carb total?

That's your mistake. You aren't avoiding sugar, you are avoiding all carbs.
The reason for this is that carbs are converted to sugar once you eat them, obvious those that are already sugar convert quicker