[singh]

hy guys
As i am new to this forum and i have loads of ques about diabetes , here goes another one?

I like to eat indian chappati/roti it said on back it has

Total Carbohydrate 28g /per serve
Dietary Fibre 6g
Sugars 1g

So my friends told me it means 28g-6g = 22g carb you are eating is it right?

Regards
Singh

[fgummett]

Hi Singh,
The argument goes that fibre is not digested so "yes" you can subtract the fibre from the "total carbs" to get the "net carbs". But you will most likely get differences in opinion as you read around here on DF: some will do as you suggest and treat it as 22g net carbs, other will include the fibre and say it is 28g carbs, yet others will only count half of the fibre making it 25g carbs, and others use a "threshold" approach where they discount the fibre only above a certain amount (or maybe that should be below a certain amount?). For myself I think the trick is to just be consistent... always choose the same method so that when you test you BS 2 hours after the meal you will have one less variable to deal with

Oh... one more thing to watch for... here in North America the food labels show "Total Carbohydrates" and as a sub-heading "Fibre" so it is OK to subtract the fibre from the total BUT in parts of Europe they do NOT include the fibre in the total.

For example:

USA... Total Carbs 30g, Fibre 8g = 22 net carbs
UK... Total Carbs 22g, Fibre 8g = 22 net carbs

[singh]

thx for that , i appreciate it

[cyberus]

In my own experiments I found that if I add the sugar g to the carb count (yes this sounds weird) THEN subtract the fiber I can get a idea of the "impact" a food will have.
If something has 15g total carb but 10g are sugar and 0g fiber I look at that as a 25g food, which would spike my BG.

[owlyn]

I subtract the amount over 5g, so in this case, for me, I would wind up with 27g. Not worth subtracting...