Hello everyone.

I bought some Linseed ( flax seeds) today, and was wondering what the carb count is per 100g.

The bag doesn't have a nutrition table, and when I looked at one in another shop a couple of days ago I was under the impression that the carbs were about 5-10 ish. But the carb counter brings them up at about 35 ish, is this because of the fiber? or am I completely confussed.


Any comments to straighten out my Linseed mystery would be welcomed.


Low carbing is such an adventure .


Thanks

Bungle.

Hi Bungle, I've just looked up flax seed on Fitday. It gives 53 carbs for a cup (about 200g I think) and 43 carbs is fibre, so since you subtract the fibre, 10 carbs effectively for 200g, so 5 for 100g, which is what you thought.
Hope that's useful. Do you know about Fitday incidentally? Find it at Fitday.com, its free and very good for tracking food intake etc. Ignore this if this is egg-sucking advice!
Take care, Jay

This is taken directly from the Carbohydrate Counter in Low-Carb Tools at the top of this page:

Flax Seeds, 100 grams
Total Carbohydrates 34.25 g
Dietary Fiber 27.90 g
Total Protein 19.50 g
Total Calories 492.00
Total Fat 34.00 g

Karen

Thank you both for clearing up my flax seed confusion

regards
Bungle