Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

[jadua05]

Hey Everyone,

I read the atkins book and he explains how grams of fiber cancel out a gram of carbs. So if you eat a cup of asparagus it is 6 grams of carbs and has 3 grams of fiber (Sparkpeople). So i would only add 3 grams of carbs to my daily total of 20 carbs.

Is this the correct way to go about my daily carb count?

If so, I found this recipe for flaxseed bread.
Flax Bread Recipe - Low-Carb Focaccia-Style Flax Bread

It says that each slice of bread is less than 1 carb and about 6 grams of fiber. If this is true, does this mean I could eat a slice of bread and 5 grams of carbs and be at 0 carbs still?

I just wanted to clarify all this fiber vs carb information before I mess up my induction phase/atkins diet.

[currentOBSESSlON]

Re: Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

I've been wondering the same thing. There's these wraps (can't remember the name off hand) that apparently have about -4 carbs? If you cancel out the fiber from the amount of carbs in it. If that's possible, lol.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

no fiber does not cancel out any carbs.

Since fiber cannot be digested Dr Atkins says we don't need to count the fiber carbs we eat in our daily limit.

if you reread that recipe it should say the bread has less then 1 net gram of net effective carb not less then 1 gram of carbs with those 5 fiber grams magically not counted anywhere.

say you ate 12 grams total of those asperagus carbs. you have 6 net grams of carbs and 6 fiber grams of carbs in the 12 gram total.
if you ate the bread too you would have 12 plus the .7 plus the 5 for your total grams of carbs for the day. for your net total you would then subtract the 6 grams of asperagus fiber and the 5 grams of bread fiber and you will have 6.7 grams of net fiber you could add another slice of the bread and the net will go up another .7 assuming their calculation for the bread was correct. ( it will not go down 5 minus .7), and the total will go up another 5.7 grams.

[jadua05]

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I use sparkpeople.com to monitor my daily nutritional intake. And when I enter veggies it will give me how many carbs they have and how much fiber they have. With the example of Asparagus. If i eat 1 cup of asparagus at 6 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fiber, that means I am still taking in 6 carbs for my net count of 20 everyday ?

[atkinsgal08]

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>>f i eat 1 cup of asparagus at 6 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fiber, that means I am still taking in 6 carbs for my net count of 20 everyday ?>>

It's 20 NET carbs.

Carbs minus fiber = NET carbs.

[jadua05]

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Ok, please someone just give me a clear cut answer to this....i just had someone tell me fiber does not erase carbs....now this last post says Carbs minus fiber = NET carbs....please someone just explain to me how this works as clear as possible....I will highly appreciate this...

I use sparkpeople.com....and I can enter my daily meals and it gives me feed back on every item that I eat. When I enter a cup of asparagus to this website format, it tells me that the cup of asparagus has 6 carbs and 3 grams of fiber. If i were to eat one cup of asparagus, would I be adding 3 or 6 net carbs to my daily carb count.

If anyone could explain the rules with carbs, Fiber and Net Carbs...I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

[atkinsgal08]

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>> If anyone could explain the rules with carbs, Fiber and Net Carbs..>>

Did you read what Dr. Atkins wrote about this in Chapter 8 of the book?

As you know, we count NET carbs on Atkins, which is Total Carbs minus Fiber.

In the US, fiber is considered a carbohydrate, so it's included in "total carbs", but we get to subtract it ... since it doesn't impact blood sugar.

Using your asparagus example, you're adding 6 total carbs to your eating, 3 of which are fiber. That means you have 3 net carbs (3 are fiber).

I think the confusion came with the recipe in your first post ...

"Each of 12 servings has less than a gram of effective carbohydrate (.7 grams to be exact) plus 5 grams fiber, 6 grams protein, and 185 calories."

What this is saying is that the net carbs are 0.7 ... and of the total carbs [not given], there's 5 grams of fiber.

Since the total carbs aren't known for sure, though we could "assume" it's 5.7, the 5 grams of fiber are subtracted from the total carbs.

Does that help?

[atkinsgal08]

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>>i just had someone tell me fiber does not erase carbs>>

And that's true.

[jadua05]

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OK great! Thank you very much, So I should assume these rules when using sparkpeople.com...correct? When they show carbs and the fiber, I do the carbs-Fiber = Net Carbs.

[atkinsgal08]

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>>When they show carbs and the fiber, I do the carbs-Fiber = Net Carbs.>>

Yes.

Assuming their original carb and fiber amounts are correct.

[Elizellen]

Re: Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

I've been wondering the same thing. There's these wraps (can't remember the name off hand) that apparently have about -4 carbs? If you cancel out the fiber from the amount of carbs in it. If that's possible, lol.

Though with US-style labels you can deduct the fiber grams to get the net carbs (as in the examples Atkinsgal talked about) I think in this case you must be talking about a non-US label.

Outside USA many countries do not consider fibre as being a carbohydrate, so any carb numbers have not counted the fibre, so you do not get to deduct the fibre numbers from the total carb numbers. The fibre count is usually in a different section ofthe label (in UK it is listed below the fat numbers)

So if the label says
total Carbohydrates 5 grams
and (lower down on the label) Fibre 9 gram
then the net carbs for our purposes would be 5 carbs as the 9 grams of fibre have not been counted as being carbs.

There is no such thing as a minus carb count

[liv]

Re: Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

Often the custom items on places like sparks people or calorie count are incorrect because most people counts calories so when they entered them they did not worry about carbs. Just a heads up if you use those.

[jadua05]

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any recommendations on a good website or tool I can use where I can find an accurate carb count for any food I eat?

[atkinsgal08]

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https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

It can be downloaded to your computer here:

Nutrient Data Products and Services

[liv]

Re: Question About Fiber VS Carbs...Need Help

FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal
Is accurate. It does not allow for others (except the user) to add in custom items.
You can also check http://www.fatsecret.com/