Do You Subtract Sugar Alcohol Sweeteners for Net Carbs on Keto
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 February 2020
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Should you really subtract sugar alcohols? Here's what I think.
I wanted to create this short video on sugar alcohols to answer the question, "should you subtract sugar alcohol sweeteners as your net carbs?"
Normally you would take the total carbs on the back of the label and minus the fiber as well as the sugar alcohols. In theory, sugar alcohols don't get absorbed in the small intestine or raise the blood sugars. The thought is because they don't act just like sugar, we can deduct sugar alcohols to get the net carbs.
However, I disagree with this. Out of all of the sugar alcohols, there is only one that is zero on the glycemic index, which is erythritol. If you have erythritol as your sugar alcohol on keto, definitely subtract it from your total carbs to get your net carbs. But, sugar alcohols like xylitol, maltitol, and sorbitol produce a reaction on the glycemic index. It's not high, and it's less than table sugar and glucose, but it's not zero.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So recently I had a question about sugar alcohols that I wanted to create this very short video. |
| 0:49.0 | So the question is, should you subtract sugar alcohol sweeteners |
| 0:53.4 | as your net carbs. |
| 0:55.2 | Now, normally, you would take the total carbs |
| 0:58.3 | on the back of the label and you minus the fiber, |
| 1:01.8 | but you also minus the sugar alcohols. Why? Because in theory this |
| 1:07.2 | doesn't necessarily get absorbed in the small intestine or raise the blood sugars. |
| 1:13.0 | So the thought is because they're not acting just like sugar, |
| 1:16.0 | we can deduct those to get our net carbs. |
| 1:18.6 | So the net carbs are what you're operating on |
| 1:21.1 | on your calculations because you want to keep your carbs between 20, 50 grams per day. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay? |
| 1:28.0 | Well, I disagree out of all the sugar alcohols only one that is zero on the glycemic |
| 1:36.5 | index and that's a wreathritol so yes if you have a wreathritol as your sweetener |
| 1:41.8 | definitely deduct it from the total carbs to get your neck carbs. |
| 1:46.1 | However, zalitol, multitol, sorbitol, these do produce some reaction on the glycemic index. |
| 1:54.0 | It's not incredibly high, and it's a lot less than actual table sugar and definitely glucose, |
| 2:00.0 | but it's not zero. |
| 2:02.0 | So for that reason, I would not recommend |
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