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.

[Lyssie]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

Lemme see if I understand this right - Ok. So we have pasta sauce that's 10g net carbs. We add 1 heaping tsp of fibersure (which is 6g-5g fiber) so 1 net carb. So it's 11g net carbs for the pasta sauce if we add it. But it'll keep you more regular...

Now, if you just ate the heaping teaspoon of FiberSure *as* the pasta sauce, it'd only be 1 net carb, but I really think it'd be kinda nasty. Does this make sense?

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

I thought when we count net carbs...


We subtract fiber, from the original carb amount?

Now I'm reallly confused!


but I'm all for eating the heaping spoonful of fibersure

[Lyssie]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

Ok. If it's just the pasta sauce, let's say the pasta sauce is 10g carbs with 2g fiber, right? So the net carbs on the pasta sauce is 8g.
When you add something to it, like FiberSure, you would need to count the net carbs (1g) in that item as well.
So the total amount of carbs in pasta sauce with FiberSure would be 16g (10+6). Total Fiber would be 7 (2+5). So Carbs-Fiber=Net, 16-7=9
In your calculations, you're subtracting the fiber from the FiberSure, but you're not adding the carbs from it in the initial number.

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

Okay...I understand what you are saying...

[Lyssie]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

It gets easier the longer you do it. Then you stop thinking about adding everything and subtracting everything, it's like, automatic net carb calculations in your head.

[Analog6]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

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

No, that is impossible. You are not taking anything AWAY from the pasta sauce, you are adding to it. The extra fibre may make the pasta sauce pass through the system a bit faster, so less is absorbed, but there is no way you can measure that without a scientific laboratory.

What are you eating pasta sauce for anyway (gives suspicious look)?

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

What are you eating pasta sauce for anyway (gives suspicious look)?

LOL @ Analog...

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

Lyssie,

Forgot to mention earlier...thanks for honestly trying to help me out! I appreciate your patience...I get it now.

It was just a hypothetical question I had been mulling around for a while now.

If I actually had a bottle of fiber sure in my hand and read the label, I'm sure I would've seen what you meant earlier...lol. Thanks again!

[jimmie 48]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

btw, some do not do any subtraction at all. they count all carbs even if it's fiber. your choice.

[abstractillusions]

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I usually take psyllium husks (Konsyl) sug free after my big meal. It not only helps me make sure i get all of my fiber, but it makes me realize i am full, and i learn to gauge better when to stop eating. i am terrible with veggies lol. I think it keeps me full longer too, not sure yet lol.

Many times i think its best to not try and utilize something else to justify eating something, i.e. if i take this, i can eat this. I think those kinds of things play mindgames with your head and you don't learn a lifestyle, you learn a patch so to speak. Don't try and find a crutch while losing weight is my advice, if you do, you will be trying to patch things continuously. If that makes sense.

Its sorta like how ADBB goes clean vs all of the lil shortcuts you could take i.e. convenience low carb. You are physically trying to lose weight, but you are mentally changing many old bad habits and inputing new ones.

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

My Dr. reccomends, and I like, flax seed...it has a good flavor.

[2big4mysize]

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LOL cathyjobob you are not the first to thiink adding finber to something will negate the already present carbs. glasd you ask before you ate it so you didn't mess yourself up.

Bren unless they have digestive systems like cows it would be silly to count the fiber carbs in the carb count for the day, cause by law anything labled fiber can not be metabolized from the time it enters our mouths till it is expelled out the rearend. not so for the other things some folk subtract like Sugar alcohols glycerine and hydrogenated starches.

[cathyjobob]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

LOL cathyjobob you are not the first to thiink adding finber to something will negate the already present carbs. glasd you ask before you ate it so you didn't mess yourself up.

Thanks 2big4mysize, that sincerely makes me feel better!

From the first reply I have felt like a total fool for having asked and I was frantically trying to delete the post alltogether (haven't figured that one out yet)...lol!

Many hypothetical questions drift in and out of my mind throughout the day, some I share, and some I keep to myself. I wish I had kept this one to myself. It does make me feel better that my sister, who is an intensive care nurse, was wondering the same thing...and she's the brightest crayon in the box! lol.

Oh well.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Serious Fiber Question

you should have seen the one from one of our UK memebers who had an amercian version of the book and didn't know UK food labeling laws. she had found this miracle food that when she subtracted the fiber from the total carbs listed ( in UK labels fiber isn't part of the total carbs so that is their net carbs) had a negative carb number and she was gleefully eating it after overindulging in carbs to get back to 20 net carbs.