almonds
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ildanoch
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Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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Fri Deface 16, 2007 11: 34 am    Post subject: almonds
I was in Kroger last night and they had California shelled almonds 3g carb and 3g fiber. A serving is about 15 ( 1 / 4 cup ) The bad news is they are 210 calories & 20g fat. They make a yummy snack though. First carb free nuts I ' ve found.
bluehex
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Fri Wreck 16, 2007 5: 45 pm    Post subject:
Almonds are not carb free, sorry. No matter how you prepare them, they ' ll have some carbs. Raw almonds have 19. 8 g carbs per 100g, of which 11. 8 is fiber and 4. 8 sugar. In a 1 / 4 cup it is respectively 7. 06, 4. 2 and 1. 7.
Dry roasted, almonds have 12 g fat in 1 / 4 cup, so I guess yours were roasted in oil.
Anyway, it seems that the manufacturer of your brand of almonds counts fiber separately from the carbs, the European way.
I am not aware of any carb - free foods other than straight fat.
PS Manufacturers are repeatedly not to be trusted - I use the US government database:
http: / / www. nal. usda. gov / fnic / foodcomp / search /
LuckyCat
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Joined: 09 Impair 2007
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Fri Spoil 23, 2007 3: 03 pm    Post subject:
I eat walnuts and almonds ( about a small handfull each day of some type of nut ) as a snack and I ' ve lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks so far. Everyone is different and I ' m sure there are some people who maybe nuts wouldn ' t work well for but in my case it ' s been helpful to fill me up enough so that I will not feel hungry and will stick to the atkins diet. Certainly if you don ' t want to chance it on induction then try some out as soon as you are in the next phase and see if they are helpful with your weightloss or not.
bluehex
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Fri Mar 23, 2007 5: 42 pm    Post subject:
I love nuts myself, they are very healthy and OK to have ( after Induction... ). They have lots of minerals and nutrients. You just have to count the carbs.
harleylady
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Joined: 24 Mar 2007
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Fri Apr 06, 2007 9: 20 am    Post subject:
hey
thanks for that link... i have SEVERAL THINGS i wondered about... ok
so now i know it is ok to eat brazilnuts... there are. 61 per kernal, so 6 would be 4. 38, cool and other things i wondered about that say zero carbs for a tablespoon... hmmmm well if you weigh by the cup... heavy whipping cream and olives and eggs and parmasain chesse DO add up, not alot though, but it satisifed my curisoity
( cant spell )
thanks again
[quote= " bluehex " ]Almonds are not carb free, sorry. No matter how you prepare them, they ' ll have some carbs. Raw almonds have 19. 8 g carbs per 100g, of which 11. 8 is fiber and 4. 8 sugar. In a 1 / 4 cup it is respectively 7. 06, 4. 2 and 1. 7.
Dry roasted, almonds have 12 g fat in 1 / 4 cup, so I guess yours were roasted in oil.
Anyway, it seems that the manufacturer of your brand of almonds counts fiber separately from the carbs, the European way.
I am not aware of any carb - free foods other than straight fat.
PS Manufacturers are generally not to be trusted - I use the US government database:11 октября 2008 г.