Dietary GI is considered as a quality of carbohydrate - based foods in the overall diet and is estimated as the weighted average (with weights based on the total
carbohydrate content per serving consumed) of the GI values of all carbohydrate foods consumed during the dietary period.
Hello Carla,
the carbohydrate content per 100 g is indeed very low, it's 1.8 g net carbs, 6.7 g fibre and 8.5 g total carbs.
Not exact matches
So I looked up the carb
content and this is what i have found: 1 cup cooked rice —
per 1 cup / 164g = 35g (fiber 3g) 1 cup black beans —
per 1 cup / 172g = 41g (fiber 15g)(total 76g of
carbohydrates for the whole loaf) I think the rice and beans are the only foods you have to worry about.
Protein
content per 100g: 80 - 90g Calories: 82
Carbohydrates: 3.4 g Fibre: 0g The good: «Whey protein is absorbed faster than any other protein, making it ideal for fuelling muscle growth before and after training,» says Lovell.
Under legislation currently being reviewed, Food Standards Australia New Zealand requires most food products to have a nutritional information panel, which indicates energy
content per serve and
per 100 grams as well as levels of
carbohydrate, fat and saturated fat, protein and sodium contained in the product.
The above study (9) found that patients had a
carbohydrate content ranging from 15 - 150 g
per day.
Brown rice has a higher
carbohydrate content than potatoes, with a total of 46 grams
per cup cooked.
Most of these shakes available at the market have a high
content of calories consisting of
carbohydrates and 30 - 40 g. of proteins (
per dose).
«The notoriety of fat is based on its higher energy
content per gram in comparison with protein and
carbohydrate.
Animal studies also suggest that high carb low protein diets maximise longevity: «The healthiest diets were the ones that had the lowest protein, 5 to 10 to 15
per cent protein, the highest amount of
carbohydrate, so 60, 70, 75
per cent
carbohydrate, and a reasonably low fat
content, so less than 20
per cent,» Professor Le Couteur said.»
Quinoa is a great source of
carbohydrates, but also protein for Vegans (8 grams
per cup) and is also a seed, not a grain (actually a pseudo-cereal because of the way it is eaten), so it can be considered a Paleo food (I usually say in moderation because of the carb
content, but in your case, approved).
Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that it is not the
carbohydrate content of the diet but ethanol
per se, when administered chronically, greatly impairs the glycosylation machinery of rat liver and that the magnitudes of these effects are selectively specific with regard to the type of sugar or the glycosylation enzyme
Total
carbohydrate content should be no more than 3 - 4 grams
per serving.
I think the fat
content is slightly on the high side, and it contains acceptable amounts of
carbohydrates, with a good amount of proteins
per serving.
The protein
content in these MRPs range anywhere from 20g up to 42g
per serving; however, the key selling point of these meal replacements is their low carb
content - these typically range anywhere from 0g carbs to a little over 10g of
carbohydrates per serving.
Yogurt is made from milk and the label will list the
carbohydrate content of the milk it was made from, again 11 to 12 gm
per 8 oz serving.
This approach restricts
carbohydrate intake to 20 grams
per day with no restriction on calorie or fat
content.
Carbohydrate content (
per 100 grams of food weight) is in grams.
GL was calculated by multiplying the
carbohydrate content of each fruit / vegetable (grams
per serving) by the glycemic index of that fruit / vegetable.
Fat provides more than twice the amount of energy
per weight unit than protein or
carbohydrates, so if a food is slightly higher in fat
content, it will automatically provide more energy.