SOmeone Please Help Iam soo Confused!! RE Sugar !

The atkins book is confusing me . First it says " No Sugar" yet he talks
about mayo (has sugar) smoked salmon(has sugar) even romaine lettuce(
sugar). why do some list sugar as an ingredient yet no grams on the food
label??? I have no sugar mayo, ketchup, but can someone shed some light on
this???
thanks
Jeff

I was going to disagree with you that mayo has sugar, but I looked at my jar
and even though it is 0 carbs, sugar is on the list. I assume there is such
a small amount in the mayo that it is negligible. You could make your own
and then you would be sure of no sugar. I do not see how smoked salmon
would have any sugar, after all it is only fish that has been smoked. As
far as romaine goes, I see that there is 1 carb in half a cup of shredded,
but all vegetables have a small amount of good carbs in them.

I'm sure you will get many more answers to your questions.

Julia
250/175/150
Atkins July 2001

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The atkins book is confusing me . First it says " No Sugar" yet he talks
about mayo (has sugar) smoked salmon(has sugar) even romaine lettuce(
sugar). why do some list sugar as an ingredient yet no grams on the food
label??? I have no sugar mayo, ketchup, but can someone shed some light on
this???
thanks
Jeff

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The atkins book is confusing me . First it says " No Sugar" yet he
talks about mayo (has sugar) smoked salmon(has sugar) even romaine
lettuce( sugar). why do some list sugar as an ingredient yet no
grams on the food label??? I have no sugar mayo, ketchup, but can
someone shed some light on this???
thanks
Jeff
I was going to disagree with you that mayo has sugar, but I looked at
my jar and even though it is 0 carbs, sugar is on the list. I assume
there is such a small amount in the mayo that it is negligible. You
could make your own and then you would be sure of no sugar. I do not
see how smoked salmon would have any sugar, after all it is only fish
that has been smoked. As far as romaine goes, I see that there is 1
carb in half a cup of shredded, but all vegetables have a small
amount of good carbs in them.

I'm sure you will get many more answers to your questions.

Nope, that's about it. It is *very* difficult to completely remove
carbs from the diet, and you really shouldn't try, as you'd be cutting
most healthy veggies right along with them. Don't worry about trace
sugars unless you have insulin/blood sugar issues or trace sugars
trigger binges.
--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your
vocation. - Aristotle

You're reading labels and that great!! The hardest step is to begin to pick
foods based on labeled content and not impulse. Realize the labels are in a
standard format so under the main category of carbohydrate will be listed
Sugars and Fiber. Mayo should only be eggs and oil and therefore contain
zero grams of sugar, fiber and carbohydrate. However the food industry has
seen fit to contaminate some foods with needless sugar due to their
perception that we like sweet tasting food. If your particular mayo has been
so contaminated, look for another brand that has zero sugar listed under
total carbohydrates. If it's zero and you still see sugar as an ingredient,
don't worry, it's less than a gram.


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The atkins book is confusing me . First it says " No Sugar" yet he talks
about mayo (has sugar) smoked salmon(has sugar) even romaine lettuce(
sugar). why do some list sugar as an ingredient yet no grams on the food
label??? I have no sugar mayo, ketchup, but can someone shed some light on
this???
thanks
Jeff

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The atkins book is confusing me . First it says " No Sugar" yet he talks
about mayo (has sugar) smoked salmon(has sugar) even romaine lettuce(
sugar). why do some list sugar as an ingredient yet no grams on the food
label??? I have no sugar mayo, ketchup, but can someone shed some light on
this???

I'll start with lettuce. You understand that pineapples are sugary
because the sugar grew inside the pineapple in the first place,
right? The same is true of any type of plant. Some sugar grew
inside it in the first place.

For stuff like mayo and salmon, a tiny amount of sugar is used in
their processing but it's so small it gets ignored for the no-sugar
rule. Under the radar. A threshold below which it is ignored.

But the whole threshold below which it is ignored applies to the
no-sugar rule not to counting. Always assume stuff really has carbs
and apply the hidden carb calculator to be certain before calling
*anything* really zero. A cup of coffee at 0.4 and so on, so little
really is zero. In the case of mayo you'll stuff yourself before
you get to 1.0, but counting it as 0.1 is still the cautious thing
to do.