Well, on carb-counting diets like Atkins, one is allowed to subtract the fiber carbs from the total, since fiber is by definition indigestible. That's no big deal.
However, most of that energy-bar crap is playing a different game, where they subtract the carbs from sugar alcohols used as sweeteners, supposedly because "most" people don't absorb those alcohols. Well, some do, which makes for a guaranteed stall if you think you're eating 2 grams of carbs and you're actually getting 15 or 20 from a single bar.
Low carb diets worked better before low carb products were so prevalent.
Yes, but how do you count carbs? What is "one carb"?
I can understand "one apple", or "one grain", or "one gram", or "one ounce". But "one carb" makes quite as much sense as "one water". Is that one glass, one bottle, and if bottle, what size bottle? Or a gallon?
According to noblessa, above, "one carb" is "one gram of carbs" ... but the phrasing grates on me like felted-steel-wool panties for exactly the reason you gave, even if it does turn out to be a "term of art" intelligible to carb-counting dieters. Ugh.
Now, if I'm "counting carbs", how do I deal with fractions? I can have one spoon, two spoons, three spoons -- they are countable. I can have 1 gram, 1.1 grams, 1.4 grams, 1.6 grams, 1.71432 grams (where there's a ridiculous number of significant digits). Are all these "one carb" under the counting of grams paradigm?
I can count enumberable things, such as one person, two persons, three persons, four.
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However, most of that energy-bar crap is playing a different game, where they subtract the carbs from sugar alcohols used as sweeteners, supposedly because "most" people don't absorb those alcohols. Well, some do, which makes for a guaranteed stall if you think you're eating 2 grams of carbs and you're actually getting 15 or 20 from a single bar.
Low carb diets worked better before low carb products were so prevalent.
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I can understand "one apple", or "one grain", or "one gram", or "one ounce". But "one carb" makes quite as much sense as "one water". Is that one glass, one bottle, and if bottle, what size bottle? Or a gallon?
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Now, if I'm "counting carbs", how do I deal with fractions? I can have one spoon, two spoons, three spoons -- they are countable. I can have 1 gram, 1.1 grams, 1.4 grams, 1.6 grams, 1.71432 grams (where there's a ridiculous number of significant digits). Are all these "one carb" under the counting of grams paradigm?
I can count enumberable things, such as one person, two persons, three persons, four.
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Testily yours,
Ambar
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I just happen to be a cranky old pedant.