If there’s one thing that’s important to us, it’s limiting the amount of carbohydrates we eat. While it used to be easy to look at nutritional facts and see how many carbs a product had, things have changed a bit. We now know that there are carbs that affect our blood sugar and there are ones that don’t.
Impact carbs are also known as ‘Net Carbs’. These are what we actually absorb and have the ability to raise our blood sugar and insulin levels.
So then, what are the carbs that don’t affect our blood sugar? These include some sugar alternatives and most fibers.
Fiber: Our digestive tracts can’t break down most fiber and therefore we don’t absorb them.
Sugar Alternatives: We do know that sugar, in its many forms, does increase blood sugar levels. However, it’s less clear when we talk about sugar alternatives. Some of the sugar alternatives that do not increase blood sugar are erythritol, stevia, sucralose, and allulose.
This is the reason you may see a greater amount of carbs on a nutritional label but those carbs then broken down a bit more.
Net Carbs= Total Carbs – (Fiber + Sugar Alternatives)
At Legendary Foods we are committed to making products with the smallest amount of net carbs possible. We are relentless in testing all of our ingredients to make sure there is minimal effect on blood sugar levels.