I found this one of my favourite foods on induction and I'm now not sure if having a large plateful was having too much or not enough. The other main vegetable was lettuce and the Atkins New Diet Cookbook gives one leaf of Iceberg as containing .4 gms of carb. Atkins New Diet gives 75 gm portion of round lettuce as having 1.3 gms of total carb and 0.7 gms of digestible carb.

Carolyn Humphries Carbohydrate Counter show 1 gm of carb for "a good handful" of lettuce.

So I'm not sure whether my total carb input was sufficient or inadequate in relation to the total recommended of 20 gms. I'm not a rabbit and chewing on a plateful of lettuce is not my concept of an ideal life :lol

Spinach in addition to being enjoyable seems to be excellent roughage.

Atkins New Diet gives the total carbs for a 110 g portion of raw spinach as 1.1 and the digestable carbs as 0.2.

The Atkins New Diet Cookbook indicates that the carb content for 90 gms of cooked spinach is 3.4 gms.

Carolyn Humphries Carbohydrate Counter gives the following guidance:-

3 heaped tablespoons of cooked spinach 1 gm carb
3 heaped tablesppon of cooked frozen spinach trace

Would this information from Tesco on their frozen spinach packet be therefore the best information to rely on:-

As sold 100g (3.5 ozs) provide

Energy 24 cal
Protein 2.8 gm
Carbohydrate 1.5 gm
(of which sugars are) 1.4 gms
Fat 0.8 gms
(of which are sats) 0.1 gm
Fibre 2.2 gm
Sodium trace

This provides 74% RDA of Vitamin A, 17% RDA of Vitamin E, 43% RDA of Vitamin C, 75% RDA of Falacin and 19% RDA of Calcium

Boiled in water a 75gm (2.5 oz) serving provides

Energy 17 cal
Protein 2.3 gm
Carbohydrate 0.4 gm
(of which sugars are) 0.2 gms
Fat 0.6 gms
(of which are sats) trace
Fibre 1.6 gm
Sodium trace

This provides 60% RDA of Vitamin A, 13% RDA of Vitamin E, 8% RDA of Vitamin C, 34% RDA of Falacin and 14% RDA of Calcium

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