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Old Sun, May-11-03, 17:45
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Default Need help Calculating Carbs

I bought this bag of seafood combination. It has octopus, cuttlefish, squid, shrimp, mussels (all raw) and cooked clams.

According to the Nutritional Information (per 100g (approx 4 ozs) serving)
calories 50
protein 11g
fat 0.8g
carbs 0g

I know that the carbs on this is wrong because someone mentioned on the Atkins board that shrimp, mussels, clams and perhaps squid I can't remember have carbs. So how many carbs should I add per 100g (4ozs)?

I tried to use the carb counter but I'm not sure how to interprete the results. According to the carb counter:
Calculated Information:
Carbohydrates factor 3.91465
Fat factor 9.01429
Protein factor 4.26216
Actual Carb count -1.05 g
Difference by weight -1.05 g

What does this mean? zero carbs or 3.91465 carbs?

Elsewhere on this site:
seafood - 4 oz cooked : clams - 5.8; crabmeat (natural) - 0 to 1.0; crabmeat (imitation "surimi") - 12.0 to 15.0; lobster - 1.5; mussels - 8.4; oysters - 8.0; scallops - 2.5; shrimp - 1.0


Please help.

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Old Sun, May-11-03, 18:10
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Default The way I understand it...

The carb factor is the amount of calories per one gram of carb. The carbs by difference are the total carbs in the food. How it can be negative is because of the rounding of numbers on the bag.

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Old Sun, May-11-03, 19:20
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Thank you Amy ! I thought zero or 1.05g was too good to be true.

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