Is 100% cacao acceptable on any rung?

[amazon1]

Re: Is 100% cacao acceptable on any rung?

Personally, I don't think we have to use DANDR as a bible. A teaspoon of high-fat, dutch-processed cocoa has 30 calories and zero net carbs. Atkin's has been dead for a long time so we don't really know what he would say to all of these little questions. I think we can use our own common sense a little too instead of trying to figure out what Atkins really meant.

[amazon1]

Re: Is 100% cacao acceptable on any rung?

Correction: a tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa has 30 calories and zero net carbs.

[Georgiana]

Re: Is 100% cacao acceptable on any rung?

If you can explain to us why cocoa is a spice or show us where Dr. Atkins wrote it is a spice, please do so.

Otherwise I believe Dr. Atkins was very clear when he wrote,

Eat nothing that is not on the acceptable foods list. And that means absolutely nothing!

If you can find cocoa on the Acceptable Foods List in your book that's fine... but it's not on the Acceptable Foods List for Induction in any of the Atkins books I have (not only DANDR)... nor is hot chocolate among the allowed beverages.

Atkin's has been dead for a long time so we don't really know what he would say to all of these little questions.

That's exactly why you should eat only foods he said are allowed during Induction instead of adding foods to the Acceptable Foods List just because you think Dr. Atkins would have had nothing against it.

Correction: a tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa has 30 calories and zero net carbs.

Your correction is wrong. Cocoa has net carbs. The numbers are rounded on the label.

According to USDA:

1 tbsp cocoa, dry powder, hi-fat or breakfast, processed with alkali ........ 2.49 g carbohydrate ........ 1.7 g dietary fiber

And if your argument that cocoa is allowed during Induction is based solely on it's net carbs (0.79 net carbs according to USDA), then are you going to tell us that 5-6 macadamia nuts are fine to eat too?

5-6 macadamia nuts, dry roasted, without salt added ........ 1.9 g carbohydrate ......... 1.1 g dietary fiber

That's 0.8 net carbs.