Hello everyone! Wondering if you can help me understand this. These are the nutritional facts for Silk Oat Milk Creamer Zero Sugar. Would I be correct in saying that the whole container has 63 grams of fat and 0 Carbohydrates? How would I calculate the carbs in something like this? Thank you!
by sourmaur
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this could be some labelling trick. 1 tbsp isn’t very much creamer, and it could have half a carb but they don’t have to list it. be careful.
Your math is sound but its kind of impossible to know for sure without more info.
Keep in mind that Nutrient Fact Tables like these are not precise enough to extrapolate like you are trying to do. They are subject to rounding of values based on their serving size. As such, a NFT might say 0 carbs but in fact there could be plenty.
An extreme example is something like a hot sauce that legally has a 1 tsp serving size. It could contain is 30% sugar but due to the small portion it will likely round down to 0g sugar on the NFT. Not a big deal if you have just one tsp of it … but having a couple tablespoons will add up to 10g of sugar.
What are the ingredients? It pays to learn common ingredients so that you can estimate real carb content when nutrition labels are misleading. As another commenter said, they get to round down to zero when it’s 1/2 a gram or less, and with a small serving size that may be the case.
So 1g of fat = 9 calories. This leaves 63 calories unaccounted for. Given this is oat, I think it’s safe to assume that’s your carbs calories. So you have just about 16 carbs in the entire container.
Why not just use half and half? This is another keto food like substance.