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Carbs in chips!

Amy888

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Help me please!

I am about to cook some chips, 500g worth of chips to be precise. It says there are 200g of carbs in this, I think this seems a little too much to warrant an injection of 20 novorapid?

Please help


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A little late. Chips are around 40g of carbs per 100g weight so your calculation is spot-on, you have to be careful when dosing for chips due to the fat content, I always spit-dose to avoid going hypo postprandial.
 
Bit late now as they will have been eaten long ago.
Chips seem to vary considerably, suspect it's to do with amount of fat.
So apparently chips in UK carb counting books are 30 g per hundred (found this as answer on another forum_
My French carb counting book says 40g per hundred,
Oven chips though 28.5g per hundred http://www.dietsandcalories.com/2011/10/mccain-original-straight-cut-oven-chips.html
(500g is a lot of chips !)
 
Spuds are about 20g/100g raw I think, so that would be 100g carbs, not 200g.

Shows the change when the food cooks and water evaporates and the potential error in dosing
 
I fount chips hard at first , so I knew how many to cook for myself I would weigh them frozen first , but double the amount I wanted in the end .

So say I wanted just 100g of oven chips with my dinner , I would weigh 200g of frozen chips , then once cooked they would weigh 100g .
So therefor I'd inject for the 100g as on the packaging it says per so many grams cooked .

 
Cloe-1992 said:
So say I wanted just 100g of oven chips with my dinner , I would weigh 200g of frozen chips , then once cooked they would weigh 100g .
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Is this the same for all frozen vegetables? I do understand that something frozen weighs heavier, but if the bag says so many carbs per 100g without qualifying whether cooked or frozen, I have assumed frozen. Does this mean in my carb calculations I have being doing better than I thought?

jim
 
Yeah I get what your saying , it's very hard when the label does not state anything regarding cooking or frozen weight .
The reason I said that with the chips is it states cooked weight on the packet , and so does most foods that need to go in the oven ,
Where as pasta says dried weight , so I will inject for the dried weight , as once cooked all it's absorbed is water , hence it being heavier .

So as frozen veg doesn't state frozen weight or cooked weight , it's a very hard call . As I don't normally have enough of the veg on my plate to carb count for . But as it doesn't state cooked weight i think I'd go for frozen weight , as how would you know what is was cooked as it doesn't state it . If you know what I mean Sorry I'm not no help really haha , hopefully someone else can answer your question for you a lot better than I have .

 
Was just speaking to dr Spock at my local enterprise and he said the best way to ensure your injecting the correct amount is to times the carbs by the n value then divide by the salt value


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Sometimes I use Sainsburys Steak cut chips which sre nice. They are 25g carb per 100g weight. OH likes them as they dont cause him grief being coeliac
 
We use Maris Pipers every time, they make the best chips, having some tonight for tea
 
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