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High and Low Carb Foods?
Is there a list of high, low and no carb foods on line?
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Hi Carey, No and very low carb foods are primarily meats, leafy vegetables, most dry cheeses and some varieties of nuts. Here is a good list of no and low carb foods: http://www.atkins.com/articles/atkin...eptable-foods/ Broccoli, cauliflower, to some extent carrots are what I'd call reasonably low-carb. Sunflower seeds, cottage cheese, sour cream and heavy cream also fit on this list. Berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries) are your next step up, followed by melons (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew). Some nuts are moderately low-carb, (walnuts, peanuts, cashews...) I eat the berries and fruits all the time, but I uuuuusaually stay away from the higher carb nuts. I'm not aware of a list of high carb foods. For the most part, it would consist of high sugar fruits (apples, oranges...), grains (bread, noodles, cake), candy (duh). In other words, all the stuff in the base of that worse-than-nothing food pyramid the libs try to shove down your throat in addition to sugary sweets and snacks. My diet is almost but not quite literally all of the above except for that last paragraph. Wow, that's about all I can come up with! I guess my knowledge is pretty limited. Personally, if I'm not sure about a food I look at the back of the package, or hit the USDA database online. If you want an exhaustive list, and if you can do a little database work on your own, you can download the USDA database and sort it out, but it would be a big job. I'm not aware of any exhaustive lists split up by carb level, but if you find something, please let us know. Mike "Carey" thelastoneno wrote in message ... Is there a list of high, low and no carb foods on line? |
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Aaron Baugher wrote:
Vegetables are the tricky part, because it's not always easy to guess what vegetables are high-carb, especially if you were raised to think of corn and potatoes as vegetables, like I was. Generally, the greener and leafier a vegetable is, the lower in carbs (and higher in nutrition) it is, but that's not always the case. Cabbage and cauliflower are better than their "greenness" would indicate, while peas are worse. That's where you just have to have a list. It is easy to guess at the carb level of veggies based on what they are and how they grow - Grass is high carb so anything made from grain is high carb. The lowest carb grain stuff like crisp breads and moving up to oatmeal aren't low carb but some folks eventually fit them in their plan. Potatoes are cheap high carb food. After that go by how the vegetable grows. Under ground veggies tend to be higher carb. Above ground veggies tend to be low carb. Veggies that grown right at the surface tend to be in the middle between high and low carb. There aren't all that many exceptions after the corn/grain that grow above ground are factored in. That's the method I use when I am shopping for veggies that come from other lands. In a store that specializes in Chinese grown veggie types I won't find them in the common lists so I look at them and see if they grew above or below the ground or on the line. It's not a hard judgement to make based on what they look like. Above ground veggies - Hard skinned winder squash are the exception so other than them if it grows above the ground it is going to be low carb. Grains are the other exception - Animals with hooves eat grass and I've never yet met a hooved human. Below ground veggies - White turnips are the exception so other than them if it grows below the ground it is going to be high carb. This even handles white potatoes which are so high carb they shouldn't even be counted as veggies. At ground level veggies are in the middle for carb count - Members of the onion family like garlic, leaks, shallot and so on are the most common veggies that grow at the surface. This approximation even works for veggies that grow both above and below the ground. Consider that celery stems are so low in carbs they count as salad but celery root is starchy high carb. Beet greens are so low carb they count as salad but beets are carby enough that one type is used to make white sugar. The next easy approximation is about fresh or dried. If a type of veggie comes both fresh or dried the frsh will be a lot lower in crabs than the dried. Green beans are low carb but almost all dried beans are high carb (soy being the lowest among the dried beans). On fruits, berries and avocados are the best, followed by melon. Most other fruits are simply too high in sugar for when you're getting started, but can be added later. For fruits the easy approximations are tart is lower, sweet is higher followed by grown in temperate climates is lower, grown in the tropics is higher. So berries are tart so they are lower carb. And sure enough most berries are grown in northern climates. Pinapples and dates are not only sweet but they are grown in the tropics. |
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Doug! Grass isn't high carb, its seeds are high carb. Grass itself is
pretty indigestible unless you are a cow as it is mostly cellulose. Doug Freyburger wrote: | It is easy to guess at the carb level of veggies based on what | they are and how they grow - | | Grass is high carb so anything made from grain is high carb. | The lowest carb grain stuff like crisp breads and moving up to | oatmeal aren't low carb but some folks eventually fit them in | their plan. | | | Below ground veggies - White turnips are the exception so | other than them if it grows below the ground it is going to be | high carb. This even handles white potatoes which are so high | carb they shouldn't even be counted as veggies. Radishes including Daikon are also low carb |
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"FOB" wrote:
Doug! Grass isn't high carb, its seeds are high carb. Grass itself is pretty indigestible unless you are a cow as it is mostly cellulose. Grass seeds are grass. Moo. ;^) Doug Freyburger wrote: | Below ground veggies - White turnips are the exception so | other than them if it grows below the ground it is going to be | high carb. This even handles white potatoes which are so high | carb they shouldn't even be counted as veggies. Radishes including Daikon are also low carb Looking at a radish I see it grows at the surface so it should be medium carb by my approximation. Looking at a diakon it looks like it grows below the surface so it should be high carb by my approximation. More exceptions. Looking stuff up in tables definitely works better than my approximation. |
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Carey wrote:
Is there a list of high, low and no carb foods on line? http://www.ourcivilisation.com/fat/appb.htm |
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Like nuts are nut trees, apples are apple trees, grapes are grape vines,
mmmmm hmmmmm. A better rule would be to think seeds as high carb, the rest of the plant is low carb. Seeds, like eggs, contain a lot of energy to get the new plant started. That's why green peas are fairly high carb but snow peas, which are picked before the seeds are fully developed and eat casing and all are lower carb. Root vegetables are similar, most of them are tubers which will grow if you plant them so they also store energy. Some seeds break the rule a bit, nuts are generally higher in fat and protein than carbs, they store their energy in a different form. Leafy greens are hard workers, lean and mean. Doug Freyburger wrote: | "FOB" wrote: || || Doug! Grass isn't high carb, its seeds are high carb. Grass || itself is pretty indigestible unless you are a cow as it is mostly || cellulose. | | Grass seeds are grass. Moo. ;^) | |
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Doug Freyburger wrote:
For fruits the easy approximations are tart is lower, sweet is higher followed by grown in temperate climates is lower, grown in the tropics is higher. So berries are tart so they are lower carb. And sure enough most berries are grown in northern climates. Pinapples and dates are not only sweet but they are grown in the tropics. I don't think this rule works. Berries and melon taste quite sweet to me and are relatively low-sugar fruits. Whereas citrus fruits, even grapefruit, is pretty carby. -- http://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/ |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... Carey wrote: Is there a list of high, low and no carb foods on line? http://www.ourcivilisation.com/fat/appb.htm Nice site. Interesting thoughts. |
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