Question about diabetic diet and net carbs?
When you are trying to follow a diabetic diet, do you count carbs or NET carbs? For example, steel cut oatmeal has 27 g carbohydrate but 3 grams of fiber, for 24 g of net carbs. Which should I go by?
Theoretically you’re supposed to subtract the fibre but I find that it doesn’t work that way on me. In the example you gave, the oatmeal would affect me as 27g of carbs (verified by testing blood sugar after eating) and I know this is the same for many other foods. So I count the total amount.
You will only find out how YOUR body works by testing your blood sugar.
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I count net carbohydrates, but I eat so few in a day that my net isn’t much lower than my total.
Fiber supposedly isn’t digestible and therefore won’t raise blood sugar, but my results have varied based on the type of carbohydrates I’m eating.
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The net carb thing is sort of controversial, at least to diabetes educators. Typically you can subtract the grams of fiber from the total carbohydrate count only if there is 5 grams of fiber per serving or more. For example, if 1/2 cup of baked beans has 30g carbohydrate and 7 grams of fiber then the amount of carbs you count is 23. Hope this helps!
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Theoretically you’re supposed to subtract the fibre but I find that it doesn’t work that way on me. In the example you gave, the oatmeal would affect me as 27g of carbs (verified by testing blood sugar after eating) and I know this is the same for many other foods. So I count the total amount.
You will only find out how YOUR body works by testing your blood sugar.
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