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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AMBrennan" data-source="post: 226412" data-attributes="member: 37697">Could you please explain why carbohydrates from vegetables does not count as "starchy carbohydrate" given that they are not sugar - e.g. kidney beans have 20g carbs / can, of which 2.4g is sugar. Firstly, how come a "food" designed for newborn cattle is essential to human adult nutrition?Further, that sounds a but unrealistic. I'm not very good at maths but I don't think one can eat 45g of lactose (carbs from milk plus 75g of sugar from fruit plus some from vegetables (e.g. 6g/100g peas) while eating less than 50g sugar in total (GDA). Also, I think 60g of carbohydrates from vegetables are unrealistically high - I don't regularly eat 1kg of carrots or 3 cans of kidney beans in a day. Further, non-negligible carbohydrates from vegetables are starch (unless you're counting fibre, which you shouldn't)I haven't read the document in detail, but these errors troubling.</blockquote>

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