I eat a lot of fruit. I have a question about carbohydrate values in my fruit. Should I calculate the carb value including core/skin or excluding it?
For example, apple has 10g carb per 100g, but is that a 100g apple or 100g of apple flesh? The apple core that I throw away weighs about 20g. So does my 100g apple contain 10g of carb or 8 g of carb? :?
This may seem like splitting hairs, but when you add up 3 or 4 pieces of fruit it makes the difference of at least a unit of insulin to me and the difference between hypo & high later in the day. All the dietician said was, "it's not enough to matter". I didn't find that helpful as she didn't give me the opportunity to come back to her with the fact that it can be 10g carb either way once you add up a pear, apple and a couple of satsumas at lunch time. :x
Equally, I eat a banana before I swim. I was surprised to weigh a banana peel & discover that it was almost 30% of the total weight of the banana (130g ttal banana, 40g of peel). So, when I calculate my carbohydrate replacement for exercise, does my 150g banana with its skin on have 34g carb (at 23g/100g) or does it have nearer 23g of carb if the skin is 30% of its total weight? This makes the difference between half a bottle of lucozade during my swim & a whole one. roblem:
Can anyone assist? Most sites that I have looked at don't say whether the values they use when referring to whole fruit include the core/skin or not.
For example, apple has 10g carb per 100g, but is that a 100g apple or 100g of apple flesh? The apple core that I throw away weighs about 20g. So does my 100g apple contain 10g of carb or 8 g of carb? :?
This may seem like splitting hairs, but when you add up 3 or 4 pieces of fruit it makes the difference of at least a unit of insulin to me and the difference between hypo & high later in the day. All the dietician said was, "it's not enough to matter". I didn't find that helpful as she didn't give me the opportunity to come back to her with the fact that it can be 10g carb either way once you add up a pear, apple and a couple of satsumas at lunch time. :x
Equally, I eat a banana before I swim. I was surprised to weigh a banana peel & discover that it was almost 30% of the total weight of the banana (130g ttal banana, 40g of peel). So, when I calculate my carbohydrate replacement for exercise, does my 150g banana with its skin on have 34g carb (at 23g/100g) or does it have nearer 23g of carb if the skin is 30% of its total weight? This makes the difference between half a bottle of lucozade during my swim & a whole one. roblem:
Can anyone assist? Most sites that I have looked at don't say whether the values they use when referring to whole fruit include the core/skin or not.