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Always had the knowledge that a typical large egg contained 1 gram of carbs. Now today I thought I take a look at the food vale on the package as I am more carb concern and to my likening I read the following below. So I have been eating 6x whole eggs a day with cheese as a cheese omelette counting the total for carbs 6 grams which now I can happily subtract.

100 grams contain:

Kcal 151
Protein 12.5g
Carbohydrates trace (of which sugars, trace)
Fat 11.5g (of which saturates 3.2g, mono-unsaturated 4.4g, polyunsaturated 1.7g)
Fibre 0.0g
Sodium 0.1g. Salt equivalent 0.2g.
Each egg typically weighs 55g

Well, you can subtract some of it, but cheese has carbs too. Depending on how much cheese you use in your omelette, and what kind of cheese you use, it can be about a gram per ounce of cheese. In the US, 100 grams of egg counts for 0.77 grams of net carbs. So I would be counting at least 2.5 for the eggs, plus however much for the cheese. I can't imagine using less than 100 grams of cheese for 6 extra-large eggs, so assuming that you're using gruyere (yum!!!), which seems to be one of the lowest-carb cheeses, that's 0.36 grams of net carbs.

You're probably safe to count it at 3 carbs and call it a day.

The cheese I use is Grated Cheddar (per 50g)

Calories: 207.5
Protein: 12.2 grams
Carbohydrates: 0.7 grams
Fat: 17 grams

with 3x whole eggs comes to a nice
calories: 432.5 Protein: 30.2 Carbs: 0.7 Fat 32

krs wrote:The cheese I use is Grated Cheddar (per 50g)

Calories: 207.5
Protein: 12.2 grams
Carbohydrates: 0.7 grams
Fat: 17 grams

That number is off by 100%! 17 grams of fat have 153 calories. 12.2 grams of protein have 48.8 calories. That totals 201.8, leaving 5.7 calories from carbohydrate. That's 1.425 grams of carb, not 0.7 grams of carb. I'm sure your label is fiddling with serving size to get to something they can round down, leaving you with a muddied picture.

3 large eggs and 50 grams of your cheese would be approximately 2.6 net carbs. Still a very low carb meal!

Shit your right!
The cheese I use only gives a reading of per 100g.
100g cheese
Cal 415
Protein: 24.4
Carbohydrate: 1.4
Fat: 34.4

Add up the sum and it don’t come to 415 cal instead 411.8 out by 3.2 there might be some hidden ingredient

4x Pro =cal 96.6
4x carb =cal 5.6
9xfat = 309.6

I only use 50g so I half the nutrition value reading. Also what got me scratching my head is in the atkins book a Avocado Each has 14.9 carbs, one site on the net says 8 carb, and the reading from the shop states 1.7 carbs for per serving which is one medium avocado so who do you believe I am getting quite confused

krs wrote:Also what got me scratching my head is in the atkins book a Avocado Each has 14.9 carbs, one site on the net says 8 carb, and the reading from the shop states 1.7 carbs for per serving which is one medium avocado so who do you believe I am getting quite confused

1.7 sounds about right for net carbs. You have to remember Dr. Atkins was an American, and as such, he included the fiber in the carb count. 14.9 carbs is about right, but it's almost entirely from fiber. Avocados are really cool in my opinion, because they have plenty of healthy fat, a smidge of protein and a healthy amount of fiber with few other carbs!

If the "one site on the net" was thedailyplate, that's for half an avocado, and it's the total carbs, not the net carbs. So you have to subtract the fiber (which it lists as 8 also, but it isn't a free carb food nevertheless!) to get the net carbs.

Keep forgetting atkins is from the USA so that's makes avocados my friend again But my cheese still dont add up