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Sarah69

Sarah69

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Hi, I count carbs in food so I can adjust my insulin. I had some soup this lunchtime and it only gave me the sugar content, it was 20.8g sugar in 600g of soup. I don't know how to convert that into carbs or even if you can! I use 2 units to 10g carbs as told my DSN, I had 10 units of insulin which obviously was too much as I then had a hypo less than 2 hours later. Can anyone tell me how to work out the carb content if it doesn't tell you on the food packaging and only had the sugar content? Thanks
 
Are you sure that it didn't have the carbohydrate count on the packaging? I thought that they had to provide this as part of the nutritional information.

If it doesn't show it, then don't eat it.
 
Sarah,
Have a look at the small print at the back of the can/packet. There sometimes hide nutritional info in amongst lots of other blurb. Those big flashes/traffic light labels with the amount of sugar, fat etc on them are useless for carb counting.
What type and make of soup was it?
 
I have found that some imported stuff from certain countries do not have any nutritional information on them at all, all they list is the ingredients. I would have thought it would not be allowed to sell these products here in the UK but they are every where.

I am a T2 so don't count carbs but I give these products a miss and just buy the ones that do have nutritional information on them.

Most soups that I looked at have quite a high count of total carbs and is always higher than the amount "of which sugar". I don't know if it's possible to convert sugar to carbs but probably safe to say that the "total carbs" is higher than the 20.8 sugar content. But that depends on the other ingredients were in the soup.
 
Hi Sarah

There should have been the carb content for the soup somewhere on the packaging but if you ate 600g weight worth of soup then you would have needed somewhere about 4u of bolus and not the 10u (20g sugar content per 600g weight) as yr ratio is 1u for 5g carb. Did you eat some bread with it at all? Not surprised you went low 2hrs later.....
 
Thanks for the replys, I found the nutritional info on the lid, there was a peel off sticker I didnt see and it was in there with the cooking instructions!! It was 9g of carbs. So yes too much insulin!
 
Sarah69 said:
Thanks for the replys, I found the nutritional info on the lid, there was a peel off sticker I didnt see and it was in there with the cooking instructions!! It was 9g of carbs. So yes too much insulin!
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Would that not be per 100g?......9g for a 600g tin seems quite low.
 
noblehead said:
Sarah69 said:
Thanks for the replys, I found the nutritional info on the lid, there was a peel off sticker I didnt see and it was in there with the cooking instructions!! It was 9g of carbs. So yes too much insulin!
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Would that not be per 100g?......9g for a 600g tin seems quite low.
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Yes your right, just got the lid out of the bin again to look and it is 9g per 100g!
 
Sarah69 said:
Yes your right, just got the lid out of the bin again to look and it is 9g per 100g!
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I thought as much :)
 
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