net carbs

Hi folks, I’m new here and found this forum whilst Googling for low carb bread. I lost a lot of weight starting around five years ago, but in the last couple of years some has crept back, after letting carbs back into my life. I first read Robert Atkins’ book many years ago and the method of...

It’s suddenly dawned on me, MyFitnessPal is an American site. So it adds fibre into the carb count - whereas British nutritional values are separated. So all the values it gives, we need to subtract the fibre from the carb value to get actual carbs. So for the last two months I’ve been having...

I was shocked to come upon this list of the net carbs in vegetables and find that per 100g even avocados (2.22), mushrooms (2.26) and broccoli (4.04), which I had been regarding as almost carb free do contain a significant amountt of carbs, particularly from the perspective of anyone trying to...