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Label Reading Advice Needed
| Tue, 10-21-2003 - 9:58am |
I am a little confused about reading labels.
Here is an example:
Regular Skippy creamy peanut butter: Per 2 T serving - 190 cals, Total Carbs 7g, Fiber 2g, Sugars 3g.
Natural creamy peanut butter: Per 2 T serving - 190 cals, Total Carbs 7g, Fiber 3g, Sugars 1g.
Here are my questions:
What is the formula for 'net effective carbs'? Is it Total Carbs less fiber less sugar??
Is the Skippy really that much worse than the natural peanut butter?
Any clarification here would be appreciated. Thanks!!
Karen


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Net carbs are the digestible carbs. Fiber isn't digested and sugar alcohols slowly enter the blook stream and do not affect blood sugar (well, it's a minimal effect)
You made me look at the jar of PB in my desk; just a local store brand - it says "fully hydrogenated vegetable oil" and in parentheses right after it "rapeseed, cottonseed, and soybean". Any chemists out there know what that means? My afternoon snack (apple with PB) depends on an answer....
Donna
Just got out all my peanut butter jars. The skippy jar definitely says "Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed, cottonseed and soybean). Both Smucker's Natural and Trader Joe's brand just says "Dry roasted peanuts, salt".
On page 49 the Doctor says "The drawbacks to commercially processed peanut butter are that bad fats - saturated ones - are sometimes added, and so is sugar. It's best to stick to all-natural peanut butter."
Also, just found on page 32 - "To avoid saturated fts in the diet, a special type of polyunsaturated fat became populat: the trans fats. They are the partially hydrogenated oils found in so many commercial products, including cakes, cookies, and margarines. Unfortunately, they are as dangerous, or more dangerous, than saturated fats. They increase the bad cholesterol levels and are associated with heart attacks and strokes."
Just my two cents.
Cathy
Ria
Oy! This healthy eating stuff is HARD!
Coconut oil is actually very healthy and has gotten a bad rap. According to Felicia Drury Klement, author of The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet, adjunct professor at City College in NYC, and an alternative health consultant, "Trans fats, which come about when hydrogenation alters the molecular structure of fatty acid into trans fat configuration, and rancid fats should clearly be avoided. But as far as other fats and oils are concerned, it's not so easy to label them either good or bad. For example, if you take vitamin E supplements when you eat polyunsaturated vegetable oils, they lose most of their toxicity. Another example of a very healthy oil that under certain conditions can become toxic
~~Rhonda~~
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Thanks,
Carmen
~~Rhonda~~
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