Ok, i need some help with this...

[Stuboy]

It's a little embarressing but i am shockingly bad at maths, numbers just don't work in my head.

I need some help working out the carbs in my daily baguette to make sure im getting the right dose and im not just miscalculating things.

The only info i have to go on from the packet is this...

per packet contains 585calories.
per 100g contains 248calories.

per 100g contains 70.8g Carbs.

There is no total weight stated or total carbs per packet.

So i need to work out the weight from the calorie info, then i can work out the amount of carbs. But my head goes fuzzy when i try and do this.

Can anyone help me with this please??? :confused:

[Stuboy]

Sorry, i've been a prat, please ignore this message completely... actually, can a mod delete this? Lol

Thanks :D :T :o

[xMenace]

per packet contains 585calories.
per 100g contains 248calories.

per 100g contains 70.8g Carbs.

There is no total weight stated or total carbs per packet.

So i need to work out the weight from the calorie info, then i can work out the amount of carbs.

Exactly.

How much does a whole baguette weigh?

585 cal/n g = 248 cal/100 g
n * 248 = 585 * 100
n * 248 = 58500
n = 58500 / 248
n = 235.88

There are 236 total grams in a packet of baguette.

How many grams of carbs are there in 100geams of baguette?

i/100= 70.8/236
i * 236 = 70.8 * 100
i * 236 = 7080
i = 7080 / 236
i = 30

There are 30 g of carbs per 100 g of baguette

[xMenace]

Sorry, i've been a prat, please ignore this message completely... actually, can a mod delete this? Lol

Thanks :D :T :o


Funny how these things come to you as soon as you post them ;)

There are many diabetics who don't know how to do this.

[Cyborg]

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[RLK]

Exactly.

How much does a whole baguette weigh?

585 cal/n g = 248 cal/100 g
n * 248 = 585 * 100
n * 248 = 58500
n = 58500 / 248
n = 235.88

There are 236 total grams in a packet of baguette.

How many grams of carbs are there in 100geams of baguette?

i/100= 70.8/236
i * 236 = 70.8 * 100
i * 236 = 7080
i = 7080 / 236
i = 30

There are 30 g of carbs per 100 g of baguette

Didn't the OP say that there were 70.8 g CHO per 100 g baguette? So that would mean that one packet equals 168 g CHO, right?

[REDLAN]

I agree with Becky - I make it 167g of carbs per pack.

carb contents on packets are often confusing - my latest annoyance is the fresh pasta packs we get. They used to quote the carb content per 100g of dry pasta - and the pack weighed 300g - so half a pack was 1 and half times the listed carb content.

they now quote the carb content as grams per 100g of COOKED pasta - why COOKED pasta, there is always slight variation in carb contents of cooked products - it's not as accurate as uncooked.

fortunately they have started by saying that half the cooked weight of the pack is 210g...

the other annoyance is the little nutrition labels on the front, where they list grams of sugar, but not total carbs.

[xMenace]

Like I said, most of us don't know how to do this :banghead:

We have a boil water order on here due to all teh rain, and I'm not getting my coffee fix.

[Stuboy]

no he is spot on actually.

i mis-read... and have been mis-reading for about a year now, the nutritional info on the packet... (it's very small text!)

There are 30g carbs per 100g and infact, 70.8 for the whole packet!

So his maths was spot on.


err.... well done! you passed the test!! lol

[HelenM]

I got lost but my problem with both figures is that one seems too low and the other far too high!

I normally use 50gm per 100gm for a baguette,
Its one of the first things I was taught by the dietician (no French meal is complete without bread I had to eat what seemed to be tons of it to match my insulin when in hospital)

Hopefully, your baguette is low carb. Do be aware that most French bread in the UK is very high GI!

[Gary_W]

I'm a bread junkie. Love the stuff.

From a glycemic index point of view, baguette is flamin' awful. That stuff tends to whack into your system with the ferocity of Lucozade. No mercy!

If you can eat it without spiking really badly then fair play to you; we're all different. I personally love baguettes but don't do them often as I know they get in a bit on the quick side compared with some other breads. If you were having that every day coupled with the 1 liter Innocent Smoothie (as I believe you also did every day for lunch until recently), you were doing 220g of very, very rapid carbs per day just for lunch.

If anyone heard a grinding sound there, that would have been BlueSky gnashing his teeth in disbelief (no offence meant, BlueSky ;) )

Stuboy, I salute the Yin to Bernstein's Yang... I thought I could knock back the carbs but man alive :D

[Gary_W]

I got lost but my problem with both figures is that one seems too low and the other far too high!

I normally use 50gm per 100gm for a baguette,
Its one of the first things I was taught by the dietician (no French meal is complete without bread I had to eat what seemed to be tons of it to match my insulin when in hospital)

Hopefully, your baguette is low carb. Do be aware that most French bread in the UK is very high GI!

Yes, but the total weight will include the filling of cheese or chicken or whatever, hence the lower carbs per 100g of the whole product as sold.

You are bang on as regards the GI of UK French bread. It tends to be a little less dense than the real thing in France, and you can still just about eat it after a day as we put in all those lovely chemicals to keep it (ahem) 'fresh'.

[Stuboy]

im not sure it's actually french bread, but it is long and very tastey! :D

I do handle carbs pretty well, bowls of pasta, bread, potato's... pizza! I love carby foods so im lucky i can eat them without spiking noticably high! The highest i've read in the last 15 days was 17.5 but that was after (1hr after, so shouldn't have tested really) a chinese.

It's fruit that plays about with me!!