carbs on vitamin labels
Where can I find a list of the stuff they put in the small print on labels? After 3 days on Atkins it occurred to me that I could be in danger of not getting enough calcium (I'm in my 50s and so far OK for bones, largely because of the weight I'm carrying, but I expect to lose that advantage). I went looking for a supplement and only found one which had no obvious carbs, but it does have "microcrystalline cellulose" and "methyl cellulose." I know cellulose is of plant origin, but does it have carbohydrates?
On the same shopping trip I bought a multivitamin, scanning the small print (and it was minute) as well as I could (I wear bifocals and store lighting is not very bright). Only after I opened it and looked again did I find, buried in there, "cellullose," "Corn Starch," and "sucrose." I'm really annoyed about that; who needs sweeteners in tablets that are going to be swallowed whole? I'm on the induction diet and my earlier headache has gone, though I still feel disoriented (as though I might wobble--but I don't--when I go out), but I expect that to go, too, because otherwise I'm feeling fine. In fact today I really feel great. But please advise on using the multivitamins and also on the cellulose in the calcium tabs. Thank you. |
Cellulose is plant fiber. It's not anything that counts. Although it's better to not have things like Dextrose and any kind of starch, the amount of dextrose ( a filler or "bulking agent" also used in artificial sweetener powders) isn't going to cause a problem, IMHO. The medications to watch are anything in a syrup form or cough drops, things in a sugary base. Luckily, most companies make sugarfree alternatives now.
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Thank you. That's a relief.
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