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I mean, if all of those are 1 carb on fitday and have NO fiber, then how can they be 0 carbs on Atkins carb counter?
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Well, a few thoughts. First of all, Fitday clearly rounds up. Most sources list eggs at around half a gram (or a little more) a piece, depending on the size of the egg. It's kind of the Atkins induction fudge factor in reverse - if you're rounding all the values up, people who are counting carbs, calories, or fat grams are going to be less likely to go over the mark.
Atkins, on the other hand, clearly lists eggs as an induction food that can be eaten freely. My guess is that he doesn't want you to worry about the carbs in eggs, so to "make things simple" he says there aren't any. Evidently the carbs in eggs aren't "Carbs That Count when you Do Atkins" (in the doctor's own, rather cumbersome phrase.)
But going beyond that, you'll notice as you go along that carb counting is not an exact science. For one thing, carbs aren't measured directly, like protein and fat. They're measured "by difference," meaning that anything that isn't identified as protien or fat is considered carb. And because nothing is consistent in nature - no two apples, for instance, will have exactly the same amount of sugar, even if they grew on the same tree during the same season - no two measurements of the same food are likely to come out exactly the same.
Just for fun, I decided to look up "broccoli" in the four books I have at hand right now. DANDR has only one listing, a generic "broccoli" at 1.7 "digestible carbs" (what PP would call ECC) per half cup or 3.4 per cup. The original PP differentiates between raw, boiled, and frozen -- (I'll go with frozen from here on) -- they list 3/4 c. of frozen chopped broccoli as having 4.4 grams ECC. Their PPLP gram counter lists a full cup of frozen chopped boiled broccoli at 4.3, and Corinne Netzer has that same cup at 2 ECC. Four books,
three authors, four opinions. But the bottom line is that you know that broccoli is a healthy, low carb food that you can probably have a cup or so of with no harm done.