Serious Fiber Question

[cathyjobob]

Okay...I want to know...

because of the way we read a food label:

(simplified)
carbs-fiber=net carbs (we count doing atkins)

There are new products on the market, or atleast new commercials for them, that have me scratching my chin. Would we be able to decrease the net carbs of any food that we add some of these products to, such as Fiber Sure?



For example:

If pasta sauce has 10 carbs and we add 5mg of fibersure...would it then be 5 carbs for the sauce?

This is a legitimate fiber question, please do not bite my head off if you think this is stupid.

[Desertthorn]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

I wondered the same thing, I don't know about Fiber Sure but I have some Benefiber and guess what it has 4 gram of carbs and 3 grams of fiber. So, won't help any, we'd be up a gram.

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

Ohhhh, okay, that's what the lady is talking about in the other forum! Thank you SoOOO much!

[not2late]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

People have asked this question before. I rember someone ate a bagel, and tried to negate its carbs by taking an equivalent about of Metamucil.....


If you use Fibersure, 1 teaspoon has 6 total carbs, 5 fiber grams, for a grand total of 1 net carb.

Let's say you add that to something XO a product with 10 total carbs and 4 fiber carbs, XO net carbs = 6.

10 XO total carbs + 6 Fibersure total carbs = 16 total carbs
4 XO fiber grams + 5 Fibersure fiber grams = 9 fiber

16 total carbs - 9 fiber grams = 7 net carbs.

So you really aren't "decreasing" the number of net carbs in product XO, you are adding fiber grams to it.