I bought some sugar free gum. It says serving size is 1 stick and 1 stick=2 carbs.
But it also has 2 sugar alcohols. Do i count this as 2 carbs or does the sugar alcohols cancel it out?

I don't know the answer but I break my piece in half at least. I don't "chew" gum, more use it to curb the urge to eat something bad.

I cancel out all sugar alcohols because they are not digested like regular sugar. I do not have a problem with the gum, but the LC candy with sugar alcohols definately mess up my tummy. (i.e. lots of gas, sometimes painful)

I count all sugar alcohols. Unlike fiber, they body must deal with the carbs from sugar alcohols.

If I eat a LC chocolate bar with say 17 gm of carbs (most being sugar alcohols) I will get knocked out of ketosis for some time. During the time that is being burned, there is no fat burning going on for me.

So I decided early on to count every carb except fiber carbs.

Gum allways confused me.

I chew a lot of chewing gum and I can't remember the last time I had one with sugar (hmm, anyone remember when Hubba Bubba first came out and there were competitions for the biggest bubble ). Now Gum is theoretically completly edible. It shows a lot of carbs (96g per 100g of Gum). How much of this is actually sugar/sugar alcohols and how much of this is actually the gum itself ?
As the gum doesn't get digested, I can count it as fibre. If one strip is 2g, how much of this is actually sugar alcohol ? must be somehwere in the region of 0.01g ??? So how many carbs do I actually count (assuming I count sugar alcohols) ?

I am not normally that obsessed. I don't count my chewing gum strips. But it has me confused since a long time.

I'm still confused, but if i get the boredom urge to eat, I think I can allow myself 2 carbs instead of messing up bigger than that...if i have to count them. I'll just try to cut down to a couple of sticks a day or so.