Question regarding carbs

Lesleywo

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714
Type of diabetes
LADA
Treatment type
Diet only
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My addiction to carbs
A lot of info I have read talks of 'net carbs' as in the amounts of carbs a food contains when the fibre is deducted from the carbs. I was wondering if people on this site use this theory or just count the total carbs in a food?
 
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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
To be honest I just read the total carbs and sometimes how much of it is sugar. Maybe there are other things I could eat if I deducted the fibre but I don't remember ever having done that.
 

Indy51

Expert
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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
Pretty sure it's only the USA who includes fibre in with total carbs. In Australia the fibre is listed separately so there's no need to deduct it. Think the UK is the same?