Is Tapioca Fiber Keto?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 7 April 2020
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Tapioca fiber may be in your so-called keto-friendly products, but is it actually a keto-friendly ingredient?
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Today we’re going to talk about tapioca, and I’m going to answer the question, “is tapioca fiber keto-friendly?”
Where does tapioca come from?
Tapioca is a starch that comes from the cassava plant.
It’s actually quite high in carbohydrates. In fact, the carbohydrates from cassava flour are 25% more than white flour.
If we compare tapioca flour to almond flour, this is what we find:
• 1/4 cup tapioca flour — 27 net carbs
• 1/4 cup almond flour — 3 net carbs
There is an ingredient found in many so-called “keto-friendly” products called soluble tapioca fiber. Soluble tapioca fiber is the same thing as prebiotic tapioca and organic non-GMO tapioca fiber.
Soluble tapioca fiber is a big source of IMO, which is a common sweetener. I used to think this was fine, but I no longer recommend it. More recent studies show that IMO has the same glycemic effect as glucose and dextrose. It’s actually worse to use than sugar. If you want to eat keto-friendly foods and stay in ketosis, you may want to stay away from tapioca flour and tapioca fiber.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. I wanted to create a video on tapioca because I've gotten this question over and over and over |
| 0:48.0 | again is tapioca keto friendly. Let's take a look at it. Where does tapioca come from? Well, it's a starch that comes from |
| 0:57.4 | the cassava plant. And if you think about how many carbohydrates it has, it's quite hot. In fact, |
| 1:06.4 | the carbohydrates from cassava flour is 25% more than white wheat flour. Now, if we compare |
| 1:16.0 | tapioca flour, not fiber, which we're going to get to in a second, with almond flour, |
| 1:22.4 | and we compare a fourth of a cup, with tapioca, you're getting 27 net carbs, but with almond flour, |
| 1:31.4 | you're only getting three net carbs. So you could see that tapioca can get out of control very, |
| 1:38.1 | very fast. But now I want to show you something that's very, very interesting, because recently |
| 1:43.9 | you'll see this |
| 1:46.8 | ingredient in a lot of so-called keto-friendly products or snacks or bars or powders or recipes. |
| 1:57.1 | Siable tapioca fiber. It sounds pretty safe, right? And siable tapioca fiber is the same exact thing as |
| 2:05.7 | prebiotic tapioca fiber, which is the same thing as organic non-GMO tapioca fiber. Well, this may not be |
| 2:13.6 | organic, but it's usually not GMO because they don't grow cassava GMO. But all of these are |
| 2:22.0 | very, very similar, if not the same. Now, here's the problem. When you do research on this right here, |
| 2:29.5 | you're not going to find hardly anything out there, especially of the glycemic index. What you are going to find |
| 2:36.0 | is tapioca fiber is a very big common source for IMO. Iso-Maltololililociride. This is a common sweetener, |
| 2:49.1 | a so-called keto-friendly fiber sweetener and a lot of the ingredients that |
| 2:54.0 | you'll see. In fact, I used to recommend it in one of my videos until I found out it creates |
| 2:58.7 | some problems, so I no longer recommend it. I didn't know it at the time because when you did |
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