I was wondering if someone could answer a question for me. I have a favorite recipe that has flaxseed meal in it. Bob's Red Mill lists flaxseed meal as total carbs 4 g and fiber 4 g for 2 tablespoons. https://www.bobsredmill.com/catalog/...product_ID=175

The box of flaxseed meal that I bought at the grocery store lists it as total carbs 8g and 8g of fiber for 1/4 cup.

CalorieKing.com lists it as total carbs 4g and 4g of fiber for 2 tablespoons.

http://www.calorieking.com/foods/foo...95056&partner=

In Dr. Atkins book New Diet Revolution on page 76 he tells us to take one tablespoon of wheat bran or flaxseed meal to help avoid constipation. I quote- "You can also take one tablespoon of coarse wheat bran or flaxseed meal. Although it's derived from grain, course brand is pure fiber and therefore it too contributes zero to your carb count. You can sprinkle bran over your vegetables or blend flaxseed meal into a shake."

So when I make food with flaxseed meal used as my flour I count the carbs for the flaxseed meal as 0, is this correct or not.

Every time I post a recipe with the count for flaxseed meal as 0 I ALWAYS get some one chiming in to tell me that the carb count for the flax is wrong.

Does increasing the amount of flax ingested change the carb count? Should I count some carbs for this meal? Please help me figure this out.

According to fitday one Tbs of flax seeds has 4.11 g carb. and 3.35 g fiber. So rounded that's net .75 carb. I grind my own flax seeds to make flax meal and find that one tbs of seeds makes 1.5 tbs of meal. So if my math is correct the net carb count would be 2 per 1/4 cup. I'm not saying fitday is correct but if faced with multiple choice carb counts I use the higher numbers. According to the USDA website a 1/4 cup has slightly less than 2.5 net carbs.

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I think we're dealing with rounding issues here. According to the USDA, a cup of flax seeds - which makes more than a cup of flax meal for me; I think my grinder fluffs it some - has 53.09 gms of carbohydrate, of which 43.2 is fiber. That comes to 9.89 net gms per cup of SEEDS. I generally count a cup of meal as 8 net, 1/2 cup as 4, 1/4 cup as 2, a TB as .5.

HTH.

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Posting at the same time, Rob. LOL!

Same answer by different methods. Sounds about right to me.

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Which only raises another question in my mind. How can you get any kind of nutritional value out of a seed that if you eat it whole it passes right through you unchanged? And once you grind it you have changed the ratio of fiber to to meat in the seed. The seeds are so small that the outer shell is far greater in mass to the meat of the seed.

...and I was answering about the same time in the Cooking Forum!! LOL!
I came up with the same figures you guys did.
(great minds think alike!!)

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Just because it's high in fiber and low in carbs doesn't mean it has no nutritional value.

Check out the nutrient content at the usda:

go here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/index.html and search for flax, then choose flax seed. You'll see that flax is actually a powerhouse of nutrients, and keep in mind that the fats you see listed include those good omega oils.

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Flaxseed is fairly rich in good oils. The carbs are nearly all fiber, so the calories are coming almost entirely from the natural flax oil.

I, too, was a little skeptical about flaxseed at first. It sounded a little bit too good to be true, and there's a WHOLE lot of too-good stuff going around right now. But I've been eating Maggie's flax cereal recipe (with some personal modifications) just about every other breakfast for months now, and it seems to not have any negative effects on my ketone readings. And I've continued to lose weight. I eat about a cup of cereal mixed with a cup of water, cooked and then dressed up with some cream and sweetener. It's yummy. So, I'm convinced. This too-good stuff is legit.

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I've always counted 2 TBS as 0 carbs, since the fiber cancels out the carbs. I figure it's so darn good for ya, that I don't care if there's even negligable carbs in it. BTW, cooking destroys the Omega 3's so eat it raw whenever possible. (you'll still get the fiber benefit if you cook it tho.)

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