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Latest "Net Carb" Scam?
The label on the Turkey Hill "Carb IQ" Ice Cream got me thinking. It
explains that the company first started out using splenda to sweeten its new low carb ice cream, then they added fiber and sugar alcohols to bring down the net carbs. What this suggests to me is that they are erroneously deducting fiber and sugar alcohols from the carb count without first adding in the carbs they contribute. If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. For any newbies here, adding fiber to a food does not reduce its carb count. Fiber is only deducted if it has been counted into the carb count already. For example: if a cracker has 6 grams of carbs three of which are fiber, the net carb count would be 3 grams. However, if we start out with a wheat cracker that contains 6 grams of carb and add 3 grams of fiber to the recipe, the total carb count becomes 9, the net carb count is still 6, and as you can see the addition of fiber has NOT changed the net carb count at all. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm |
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Latest "Net Carb" Scam?
Jenny wrote:
The label on the Turkey Hill "Carb IQ" Ice Cream got me thinking. It explains that the company first started out using splenda to sweeten its new low carb ice cream, then they added fiber and sugar alcohols to bring down the net carbs. What this suggests to me is that they are erroneously deducting fiber and sugar alcohols from the carb count without first adding in the carbs they contribute. If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. For any newbies here, adding fiber to a food does not reduce its carb count. Fiber is only deducted if it has been counted into the carb count already. For example: if a cracker has 6 grams of carbs three of which are fiber, the net carb count would be 3 grams. However, if we start out with a wheat cracker that contains 6 grams of carb and add 3 grams of fiber to the recipe, the total carb count becomes 9, the net carb count is still 6, and as you can see the addition of fiber has NOT changed the net carb count at all. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! The only way they could claim reducing the net carbs per serving is if the addition of sugar alcohols and fiber significantly increased the total bulk, and therefore the number of servings, spreading the effective (net) carbs over more servings. If the addition did not significantly increase the bulk, then they are likely clueless as you have suggested or just plain dishonest. BJ |
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Latest "Net Carb" Scam?
Jenny wrote: The label on the Turkey Hill "Carb IQ" Ice Cream got me thinking. It explains that the company first started out using splenda to sweeten its new low carb ice cream, then they added fiber and sugar alcohols to bring down the net carbs. What this suggests to me is that they are erroneously deducting fiber and sugar alcohols from the carb count without first adding in the carbs they contribute. Or. They're replacing other higher carb contents with the fiber and sugar alcohols. Maybe the original Ice Cream had a combo of Splenda and sugar. Now they've replaced the sugar with sugar alcohols. As for the fiber... if you bulk something up with fiber, the serving size will have more fiber than it did before, lowering the proportions of carb in the serving. Lowering the net carb count. Now, I have NO experience with Turkey Hill. But this could be what happened. Jennifer |
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"Jenny" wrote in message ...
The label on the Turkey Hill "Carb IQ" Ice Cream got me thinking. It explains that the company first started out using splenda to sweeten its new low carb ice cream, then they added fiber and sugar alcohols to bring down the net carbs. What this suggests to me is that they are erroneously deducting fiber and sugar alcohols from the carb count without first adding in the carbs they contribute. If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. For any newbies here, adding fiber to a food does not reduce its carb count. Fiber is only deducted if it has been counted into the carb count already. For example: if a cracker has 6 grams of carbs three of which are fiber, the net carb count would be 3 grams. However, if we start out with a wheat cracker that contains 6 grams of carb and add 3 grams of fiber to the recipe, the total carb count becomes 9, the net carb count is still 6, and as you can see the addition of fiber has NOT changed the net carb count at all. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm Take a trip to any grocery store or low carb store and try to duplicate the net carb count on most products and I suspect you'll have a hard time coming up with the same counts. (I did.) Low carb is big business these days and the manufacturers of low carb foods will do anything to get the lowest "net carb" counts listed, even if it their way of arriving at the number is patently dishonest. I know that many people here disagree with me. BUT it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't eat any of the commercial low carb stuff and I make it a point to avoid foods that have the words "Net carbs" on the package. To me, low carb eating isn't subbing one brand of bread for another. It's a shift in thinking, a shift in eating patterns. I hope the folks who consistently eat the commercial low carb stuff continue to lose weight and can keep it off. It didn't work for me. Learning to live without ice cream, bread and pasta and most wheat products isn't a punishment. It's freeing, really. I don't need to worry if the label is telling the truth on low carb bread. I make a lettuce wrap instead most days. My size 6 pants fit like a dream. I don't have cravings anymore. It works, guys, low carb works. Duffy 182/124 size 16/6 since 12-01-01 |
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On 23 Jun 2004 14:35:12 -0700, Duffy wrote:
"Jenny" wrote in message ... The label on the Turkey Hill "Carb IQ" Ice Cream got me thinking. It explains that the company first started out using splenda to sweeten its new low carb ice cream, then they added fiber and sugar alcohols to bring down the net carbs. What this suggests to me is that they are erroneously deducting fiber and sugar alcohols from the carb count without first adding in the carbs they contribute. If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. For any newbies here, adding fiber to a food does not reduce its carb count. Fiber is only deducted if it has been counted into the carb count already. For example: if a cracker has 6 grams of carbs three of which are fiber, the net carb count would be 3 grams. However, if we start out with a wheat cracker that contains 6 grams of carb and add 3 grams of fiber to the recipe, the total carb count becomes 9, the net carb count is still 6, and as you can see the addition of fiber has NOT changed the net carb count at all. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm Take a trip to any grocery store or low carb store and try to duplicate the net carb count on most products and I suspect you'll have a hard time coming up with the same counts. (I did.) Low carb is big business these days and the manufacturers of low carb foods will do anything to get the lowest "net carb" counts listed, even if it their way of arriving at the number is patently dishonest. I know that many people here disagree with me. BUT it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't eat any of the commercial low carb stuff and I make it a point to avoid foods that have the words "Net carbs" on the package. To me, low carb eating isn't subbing one brand of bread for another. It's a shift in thinking, a shift in eating patterns. I hope the folks who consistently eat the commercial low carb stuff continue to lose weight and can keep it off. It didn't work for me. Learning to live without ice cream, bread and pasta and most wheat products isn't a punishment. It's freeing, really. I don't need to worry if the label is telling the truth on low carb bread. I make a lettuce wrap instead most days. My size 6 pants fit like a dream. I don't have cravings anymore. It works, guys, low carb works. Duffy 182/124 size 16/6 since 12-01-01 I've given up on all that stuff except low carb bars. Every once in a while, I'll have a bar, when I can't keep other things cool. -- Bob in CT Remove ".x" to reply |
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For any newbies here, adding fiber to a food does not reduce its carb count. Fiber is only deducted if it has been counted into the carb count already. For example: if a cracker has 6 grams of carbs three of which are fiber, the net carb count would be 3 grams. However, if we start out with a wheat cracker that contains 6 grams of carb and add 3 grams of fiber to the recipe, the total carb count becomes 9, the net carb count is still 6, and as you can see the addition of fiber has NOT changed the net carb count at all. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. I totally agree about the scamming lowcarb 'bread' merchants, but I thought the principle behind eg purgatives as taken by eating disordered persons (like me at 17) was that you digested less of what you ate. Maybe some muddled thinking like this is afoot. (If so, there may be something to be said for the dreadful bars after all!) -- Jane Lumley |
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Hello,
Jenny wrote: If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. Duffy replied: Take a trip to any grocery store or low carb store and try to duplicate the net carb count on most products and I suspect you'll have a hard time coming up with the same counts. (I did.) Low carb is big business these days and the manufacturers of low carb foods will do anything to get the lowest "net carb" counts listed, even if it their way of arriving at the number is patently dishonest. SNIP Silly Duffy! Didn't you know that if the net carbs don't check out using the Total Calories figure as the basis you just say; "I guess the manufacturer put fiber calories in there too." Voila! All better. We oldtimers have been doing it wrong the whole time. Really. A newbie said so. ;-) Take care, Carmen |
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"Carmen" wrote in message .. .
Hello, Jenny wrote: If this is really what these and other food companies are doing to achieve net carbs, it might explain all the "low carb" bread we're seeing that has white flour listed as the first ingredient. Duffy replied: Take a trip to any grocery store or low carb store and try to duplicate the net carb count on most products and I suspect you'll have a hard time coming up with the same counts. (I did.) Low carb is big business these days and the manufacturers of low carb foods will do anything to get the lowest "net carb" counts listed, even if it their way of arriving at the number is patently dishonest. SNIP Silly Duffy! Didn't you know that if the net carbs don't check out using the Total Calories figure as the basis you just say; "I guess the manufacturer put fiber calories in there too." Voila! All better. We oldtimers have been doing it wrong the whole time. Really. A newbie said so. ;-) Take care, Carmen Ah....Unfortunately, math just isn't one of best subjects. However, sometimes even the fiber calories aren't enough to make the wonky net carb equations work out. At least with the Duffy calculation method. Too much trouble. It's easier to just say NO. As to doing it wrong, well, if what you say is true, I'm doomed to continue to screw up. And continue keeping my weight and cravings down........Go figure! How are things at your house? Life here continues in much the same vein as before. I just finished a book project that has me half-dead (book will be at a store near you October 1) AND I started an online business with two friends. Oh and my full time job has me hopping. And of course, CERT continues to be a big part of my life. I haven't had much free time for ASDLC. Duffy |
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