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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 1496426" data-attributes="member: 93179">[USER=22547]@carty[/USER]: Carol maybe whether you count them or not might depend on how low carb/strict you are and how much of a lemon or how many you'd get through a day?   A lemon's worth of carbs may be a significant percentage if you are on just 20g carbs a day, but something you could manage nicely on say 50g.  But as has already been stated you'd also be getting some vitamin C, so you could count them as essential/healthy carbs regardless! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />I regularly use lemon and lime juice and zest in my cooking and baking  but since the actual amount I have per day is fairly insignificant  I don't bother about it.   Instead I try to allow for a few carbs  worth of leeway in my overall daily consumption, to cover things such as  herbs, spices, flavouring, and the odd carbs in food, e.g dairy, that I don't generally think about.  As long as my glucose levels are OK and stable I'm happy, and I'd sooner have a few extra carbs if I believe I benefit in any way from them...Robbity</blockquote>

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