Some questions...

[Boydness]

Eggs
When did eggs start counting as 1 carb?
I see that it is still shown as ZERO some places on the web, but I checked and even the egg cartons state "1". Did someone discover the chicken's secret plot or were we just mislead by the cows for so long?

Green Olives
What is the truth with green olives having carbs?
According to many references, it states 5 Green Olives = 2.5, although on jars they all show a 5 olive serving as ZERO. Are carbs getting more expensive and they are leaving the carbs out of the product now? The economy must be getting pretty rough when they secretly remove the carbs, but still charge the same price...


Sugar
How can a "Nutrition Facts" label state ZERO total carbs and ZERO Sugars, but have sugar as the 2nd ingredient?
I contacted Turkey Creek Snacks about their "Barbeque Flavored Chicharron Pork Skins", but never received a response. Incidentally, the "Hot" BBQ version does not have sugar listed in the ingredients...
Are the turkeys trying to pull a fast one?!



Steven

[Georgiana]

Re: Some questions...

Hi Steven,

You can use Fitday to track your food.
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal

An egg has about 0.6 calories. Which is why it sometimes appears as 1 and sometimes as 0.

Green olives do have carbs. Check Fitday after you read what I wrote below.

The sugar business... Here's what Megs (not2late) wrote in a sticky:

In the US, all nutritional labels have at least a listed serving size, total calories, fat grams, carbohydrate grams, fiber grams, protein grams, sodium content. For the most part, the nutritional information is accurate for the listed serving size. If you exceed the listed serving size, the values on the nutritional info will increase too. An example of this is hot pepper sauce, like Tabasco. The serving size listed on the bottle is 1 teaspoon (5 ml). Calories are 0, fat is 0, carbs are 0, protein is 0. If you use 2 teaspoons, the carbs do not remain 0. Why? Because hot pepper sauce is made from peppers, which contain carbohydrate, so if it's made with something that contains carbs, it will contain carbs too.

The US labelling laws allow products that contain 0.1 to 0.499999 carb grams to be labelled as 0 carbs and products with 0.5 to 0.9 carb grams to be labelled as less than 1 carb. So what's a low carber to do? The typical advise is to count products labelled 0 carbs as 0.5 net carbs and products labelled less than 1 carb as 1 net carb. That way, you'll be accounting for the carbs that US manufacturers can legally ignore.

To complicate matters a bit more is the fact that in the US, carbohydrate labelling is not strictly regulated. So manufacturers can round up or round down the carb grams listed in the nutritional info. This makes figuring Net Carbs tricky.

There is a rather popular brand of flax seed meal that claims a 2 tablespoon serving has 4 total carbs and 4 fiber grams. According to the Net Carb formula, that product will have 0 net carbs per 2 tablespoon serving! Not true. This is an example of the manufacturer rounding up the fiber grams. So this product should be counted at the most as 1 net carb per 2 tablespoon serving.

Her complete post is here:

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-diet-14-day-induction/5918-net-carbs-added-sugar-labels-fast-food-links.html

[Boydness]

Re: Some questions...

Thanks Georgiana,

I think that the Chick-Fil-A cows must be behind the plot to say that eggs have ZERO carbs. Do you have the Chick-Fil-A commercials with the cows there in Germany?

When I was searching, I must have missed the post somehow, so thanks for the link...


Steven

[Lyssie]

Re: Some questions...

The Chick-Fil-A cows have been known to try and pull fast ones on consumers. I mean, seriously, they want us to eat chicken instead of beef, which has a lower fat content!