I use Maggie's recipe for flax cereal and love it! My question is on the carb count. I have a package of flax meal and it says per serving is 4 carbs and 4 gms fiber which equals 0 for us carb counters. The soy protien isolate is 0 carbs but the USDA site says per cup of wheat bran is 37.416 carbs and 24.824 gms fiber and sugars 0.238 gms. So what else is there that we need to be concerned about in it? Shouldn't this be a 0 carb item for us? I really am curious about this.

TIA for any help.


Deannie
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My box of Hodgson Mill Unprocessed Wheat Bran
Has 10g carbs with 7g fiber for a net carb count of 3g per serving. A serving size is 1/4 cup dry. I don't mind 3g carbs to have the cereal, but I doubt I use a whole 1/4 of this in my cereal. I think I have 1/2 cup of prepared cereal per day, so that is about 1 to 2 grams net carbs.

HTH

Jen

Atkins since 11/11/03

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I really should get a better signature...

Hi Jen,
Thanks for the info. I don't mind the carbs and I count them too but I'm curious as to what counts as carbs in something like this as USDA doesn't list anything else but the small amout of sugars,protein,fats and Ash. So what else could be a carb?
Do you only count the 1/2 c. cereal as 1-2 carbs? Did I misunderstand Maggie's carb count? or do you follow your own counts?
TIA

Oh well, guess it really doesn't matter. LOL I'm not going to stop using it anyway. Guess I just think up strange thoughts sometimes.

Deannie
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I have to go by what my products counts are. I don't know what brand Maggie uses. My flax is 0 my SPI is 0 so that just leaves 3 carbs per 1/4 cup for the wheat bran. I don't use 1/4 cup of it so it has to be less then 3 carbs per serving for me.

I read or heard somewhere that the USDA gets there amounts by calculating the fat calories and protien and what ever else is left over they call a carb.
Oh I remember where I read that. It was on the Yogurt thread. Sharron provided a link to a website that told us about how carbs are counted in food but it was different for things with lactic acid in them.

Ok I'm on a rabbit trail now but look for the yogurt thread and read about how the overflow carbs work for the USDA.

Jen

Atkins since 11/11/03

5'3" 140/131/115

I really should get a better signature...

Ok, hey thanks for that info. I will look up the yogurt thread. I bought my wheat bran from the bulk items and didn't get a nutrional lable so I went by the USDA and that's when the question popped up.
Thanks again

Deannie
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The carb counts on my recipes are always the most conservative I can find. They're usually "over estimates" but that's how I count things.

I always leave a margin of error when I'm trying to convert carbs per unit of weight (which is how I tend to measure for myself in the first instance of putting somthing together) to carbs per unit based on volume (which is how most people measure things & I how I tend to do it, once I think I know the numbers.)

... not to mention, I've been called mathematically challenged , a charge I do not deny. Keeping that in mind, I try to be careful and conservative, round up and estimate high where I have to make an estimate.

HTH

Maggie
5'1" ~~ Atkins since '98 (160+)
Maintaining nicely (110 +/-)
~~ Redhead until further notice!

Maggie,
I have no problem with your counts at all. I was just curious how the USDA was counting carbs in the wheat bran because I couldn't see where they were getting them. I did find the thread that explained how they got their final counts and it explains their way of doing it but... it doesn't make sence to me. Oh well, that's government for ya.
Have a nice day

Deannie
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