What are Net Carbs?
Net carbs are digestible carbohydrates that affect blood sugar. To find out how many net carbs something has, you simply subtract the amount of dietary fiber from the total number of carbohydrates. (Also subtract the amount of sugar alcohol and glycerine if they are included in the total carbohydrates count.
Net carbs are the amount of carbs in a food minus the fiber and sugar alcohol. This is because sugar alcohol and fiber are not digested by your body so they don’t count towards your carb total for the day. So if you are eating something that has 9g carbs and has 3g fiber, and 1 g sugar alcohol, you count that as 5 g “net carbs”. Sugar alcohol is found mostly in sweets and will be listed on the packages of most low carb desserts such as low carb candy bars and brownies.
Net carbs are digestible carbohydrates that affect blood sugar. To find out how many net carbs something has, you simply subtract the amount of dietary fibre from the total number of carbohydrates. (Also subtract the amount of sugar alcohol and glycerine if they are included in the total carbohydrates count.