I contacted the Flax Council of Canada and they e-mailed me a very detailed table. They sent it in a PDF file. Is there a way that I can provide a link here to the file? Anyway I tried to copy and paste it here and it didn't work. But here is some of the info according to the table:

1 cup (180 g) of whole seed has 52 g of carb and 50 g of fiber

1 cup (130)of ground seed has 38 g of carb and 36 g of fibre.

So if you just subtract the 19% insoluable fiber you get:

1 cup of flax seed: 17.8 g actual carbs
1 cup of ground flax: 13.3 g actual carbs.

I can certainly e-mail the file to anyone that would like it.

Is anyone bored with math class yet!!! what this means for me is that 1/4 cup of flax meal has only 3.3 g of carbs


There are schools of thought in the low carb Internet world that do not count any carbs for Flax meal. I guess they are subtracting both types of fiber. Here is a link to a chocolate muffin recipe with only 1 g of carb per muffin and they do not count any carbs for the flax.
http://www.low-carbdiet.co.uk/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9067

So should we just deduct 2/3 of the fiber to account for the soluble fiber in the fiber count for all products?