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Zero Calories, Two Grams of Carbs?
I used to count calories, now I count carbs, so I'm looking at my Rockstar energy drink and there are zero calories and two grams of carbs. Somehow, that just doesn't even seem possible to me.
Does anyone with a solid knowledge of nutrition know if it's even possible for something to have carbohydrates without any calories?
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Unfortunately in food labels carbohydrates include things like fiber (soluble and insoluble) and sugar alcohols like erythritol which have no calories and we do not metabolize. Check the label and see if either of those are listed, they would account for the "carbohydrates" and zero calories. Really anything that is not a "true carbohydrate" should be listed separately.
For what I hear, in European nutrition labels they do not pile fiber into carbohydrates, wish they would do that in US.
Maria H
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You can check out this article to learn more about how different nutrition labels portray carbs: https://cronometer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018869171-Reading-Nutrition-Labels
Hilary
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I appreciate the replies. It's not listed in the Nutrition Facts, but looking at the ingredients, you nailed it with the erythritol:
The good news is, I can go back to downing one or two of these a day without worries about racking up net carbs!
Erythritol is a sugar alcohol so that is probably your carb, but it has no net calories so they get to say 0 calories.