Guest guest Posted April 11, 2004 Report Share Posted April 11, 2004 Maralee, dont worry about the net carbs. Just use the total carbs. In this case, the 1 gram of fiber is not significant enough to subtract. The sugar alcohol can still raise your sugar, but slowly, although I heard that for some people, it wont raise it. As for not adding up to 10, I see this alot. I rarely see the numbers actually add up. They just round up to the next whole number. The grams you see next to fat, carbs and proteins is rounded up, from decimals. So in turn, they round up the calories as well from them. Maralee wrote: Hi. I bought some " carb conscious " cookies at the store today. Help me figure out what I should count these as. The label says I should count 2 g of net carb per serving (one cookie). The label in detail says there are 10 g of carb per serving, but that is 1 g of dietary fiber, 1g of sugar, and 7 g of sugar alcohol (which all doesn't even add up to 10?!!). Anyway, I think I heart some of you saying it might be best not to count just 2, as the label says, but somewhere in between the 2 and 10? Now that I have a solid example, please help me understand... Thanks! maralee Diabetes homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes/ To unsubscribe to this group, send an email to: diabetes-unsubscribe Hope you come back soon! --------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 11, 2004 Report Share Posted April 11, 2004 Thanks for the input, ! Maralee ***** ****Maralee, dont worry about the net carbs. Just use the total ****carbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 In a message dated 4/11/2004 7:51:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, mparker72@... writes: The label in detail says there are 10 g of carb per serving, but that is 1 g of dietary fiber, 1g of sugar, and 7 g of sugar alcohol (which all doesn't even add up to 10?!!). It all depends on how you look at this and on how sugar alchols affect your body, some people can handle them with no significant rise others cannot. The ADA's offcial stance, for the moment, is to count half of the sugar alcohols. So by what you list that would be 3.5 + 1 (sugar) + 1 (the unknown 10th gram not shown) for a revised net total of: 5.5 net carbs per cookie! I personaly count all the sugar alcohols so for me and my eating i look at it as 9 carbs per cookie and for that i can eat a regular ole Pecan Shortbread cookie, choc chip or oreo from the store with my cup of tea, so i don't bother buying low carb cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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