Too Good to be True ?

  • I love vegetables. Yesterday I picked some organic broccolini. When I looked up the nutritional value, every thing I googled indicates that it has zero net carbs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccolini Wada ya tink ?
  • according to MFP, a cup of broccolini has 25 calories, 5 carbs, 3 fiber, 3 protein. So net 2 carbs I guess? I don't do net carbs, I just count all of them and know what numbers work for me that way.

    In any case, broccolini is FABULOUS, one of my favorite veggies. Enjoy!!
  • It's not zero... although it's very low carb... so I say enjoy it guilt-free

    But it does bring up a good point when it comes to looking up nutrition info and reading food labels... and that is things are allowed to have something like up to 4 calories and still "technically" be labeled "0" so that comes out to 1g of carbs in some of the "zero" calorie sweeteners for instance...
  • Aha !!! That makes more sense.....Still alot of bang for the carbs.... thanks !