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I'm getting really annoyed with the 'hidden' carb factor. My frustration is rooted in that for extreme low carbers like ourselves we rely on accuracy or we will fill in our remainder of carbs and unwittingly exceed our carb levels though we mentally think we're meeting them.

If hidden carbs are not listed, we may as well add 1/2 gram carb to EVERY FOOD ITEM we eat. That would be a safe bet. I'm not a nutritionist or food scientist so I don't know enough about what constitutes food but let me do some simple math below:

Egglands Best Large Egg
http://www.egglandsbest.com/nutrition/n ... facts.aspx

Total Calories: 70
Cal from Fat: 36
Cal from Protein: 25.2
Cal from Fat+Prot: 61.2
Leftover Calories: 8.8

Based on this, the leftover 8.8 calories would come from carbs, which is 2.2 grams. Unless there are other things that contribute to calories which are not of protein, fat and carbs, then I am screwing myself. Yet, Mark says (and I have accepted by other sources) that an egg has .25 grams of carbs. How do you verify if a product has carbs???

HOW IN THE UNIVERSE DO YOU TRULY KNOW IF A FOOD DOESN'T CONTAIN CARBS!!!

I hear you. I had the same problem with eggs on the egg carton the carbs were 0 but the food value calculation did not add up. I recently spoke to a person who works in a egg farm and she told me to count an egg as 1g carb per egg?

Below is what the food value say's on my egg carton box for 100g. A typical egg weighs 55g so that,s two eggs!

Calories 151
Protein 12.5
Carbohydrates 0
Fat 11.5
TOTAL CALS 153.5

That's 3.5 calories over making an egg about 0.5g carb

krs wrote:I hear you. I had the same problem with eggs on the egg carton the carbs were 0 but the food value calculation did not add up. I recently spoke to a person who works in a egg farm and she told me to count an egg as 1g carb per egg?

Thanks for chiming in.... that's a good thing to know since eggs are sort of a staple food for many Anabolic Diet/Cyclic Ketogenic folks who are eating <30 grams carbs a day. I think I'm going to just add 1 gram carb to any food that doesn't have one listed. That's the safest bet.

That’s right eggs are the best anabolic food you can eat. I like to add a couple of eggs with my protein shake to bump the protein count. Like yourself I was pretty fed up that you had hidden carbs in eggs