Carb counting and fibre

I've learned recently that when carb counting your food you should deduct fibre. This surprised me as I've been doing this for 10 + years and assumed I knew everything there was to know. Maybe I got told in the early days and just forgot.

It does help explain why some food e.g. beans seem to cause lower bg values.

But I've noticed on some things that the amount of fibre is higher than the carbohydrates. Example pecan nuts.

Does this mean that no carbohydrates that will be absorbed from pecan nuts? Or is it more likely to be inconsistent food labelling?

tim2000s said:

It depends on where in the world you are as to whether you deduct fibre from Total Carbs. On European labelling, you just use the total carbs value. On this form of labelling, fibre is already deducted. The example you have given, beans, are very slow release, as with other pulses, so require care in bolusing.

If you are in the US, the total carbs value includes fibre, so you have to subtract it from the total carbs value and work from Net Carbs.

All very confusing!

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Thanks that make sense. I think I must have read it in 'think like a pancreas' which is American