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CarbSense Low-Carb Granola - Labeling Error? Please check!
Can someone check me on this....I think this product's labeling is screwed
up.... On the box, it claims 4g net carbs per serving. This is a no Sugar Alcohols food. The label info reports this: Serving size: about 1/2 cup (55 g) Calories: 285 Total fat: 15g Sat fat: 2g Chol: 0mg Sod: 20 mg Total Carbs: 29g Dietary Fiber: 25g (I thought this was a lot in the store, but i bought it anyway) Sugars: 1g Protein: 9g However, when entering this into fitday, the numbers don't add up, with fitday saying the calories should be about 183. Also, dietary fiber and sugars are indented under total carbs (I'm in the US). So, not being a happy camper because I just ate 1/2 cup of this stuff, I went to the website and found this: http://www.carbsense.com/pdf/nutriti...rb_granola.htm I don't know if CarbSense has some other non-lowcarb product (I sure hope so)... But the numbers given are for 100 grams. So, if you multiply every entry by 0.55 you should get the nutritional info listed on the box for a serving. Doing this, one gets that the fiber content is 11g rather than 25 g, making the net carbs a friggin 18 g per serving. Holy smack-me-on-the-ass, Batman! I must've made a mistake somewhere. Looking at the ingredients I don't see where all of these carbs are coming from: soybeans, almonds, oat fiber, polydextrose (fiber), soybean oil, cinnamom, natural flavors, sucralose. Finally, on that page linked above there is a handwritten comment about Plydextrose (fiber) = 25.5. So, if we multiply that number by 0.55 we get 14. If this is added to 11g of fiber from above, we arrive at 25g, which is the number listed on the box. So, does this mean the calories per serving listed on the box is wrong? Perhaps the correct calorie number should be about 183 per serving (15*9 + 4*4 + 8*4)? What's up with this? |
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