Cheddar cheese carbs

In article said:

If you look up Cheddar Cheese in the USDA database, it says there's 0.36g/oz
of carbohydrates. The package of most any brand of cheddar will say that the
serving size is 1oz and that there is 1g of carb.

That's a huge difference if you're counting carbs and are limiting yourself
to a small number (like 20). That is the difference between 1oz of cheese
vs. 3oz's being counted as one carb!

I also looked up mozzarella. It has 0.79 carbs and the package says 1 (as
would be expected).

The difference in the USDA vs. package label counts are significant and the
amount of cheese a person might eat, using the USDA values, would add up
big-time during the day.

Anyhow, my question is which do you count, the USDA or the standard 1g/oz?

Two things: package labels may round up or down. Also, different brands
of cheese may differ in the fat content of the milk that they're made
from; more fat probably means less carb.

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em said:

If you look up Cheddar Cheese in the USDA database, it says there's
0.36g/oz of carbohydrates. The package of most any brand of cheddar will
say that the serving size is 1oz and that there is 1g of carb.

That's a huge difference if you're counting carbs and are limiting
yourself to a small number (like 20). That is the difference between 1oz
of cheese vs. 3oz's being counted as one carb!

I also looked up mozzarella. It has 0.79 carbs and the package says 1
(as would be expected).

The difference in the USDA vs. package label counts are significant and
the amount of cheese a person might eat, using the USDA values, would
add up big-time during the day.

Anyhow, my question is which do you count, the USDA or the standard 1g/oz?

1g/oz

Quoted message said:

Also, Atkins (somewhere on the website) recommends no more than 4g of
carbs from cheese per day. That's just over 11 oz, which is like 1250+
calories -- enough to blow somebody's diet, for sure for sure. That
being said, I'm just wondering what people's take is on this cheese thing.

(Personally, I am getting through induction pretty well by counting one
oz. of cheese as being one carb and limiting myself to 4oz of cheese per
day. I'm not about to change that right now, but do want to better
educate myself in regards to lc eating.)

Thanks!

em said:

Also, Atkins (somewhere on the website) recommends no more than 4g
of carbs from cheese per day. That's just over 11 oz, which is like
1250+ calories -- enough to blow somebody's diet, for sure for
sure. That being said, I'm just wondering what people's take is on
this cheese thing.

I think he says to limit yourself to 4 ounces of cheese per day, not
4g of carbs from cheese, but I could be remembering wrong.

But why would 1250+ calories blow your diet?

Quoted message said:

(Personally, I am getting through induction pretty well by counting
one oz. of cheese as being one carb and limiting myself to 4oz of
cheese per day. I'm not about to change that right now, but do want
to better educate myself in regards to lc eating.)

Personally, I think it's easier to round things up like you're doing.
The USDA allows a 10% margin for error anyway, and it's not uncommon
for labels to err more than that. Also, there's surely *some*
variation in carb count from one brand/processor to another. Rounding
everything up means you're a lot less likely to think you're getting
20g and really getting 25g because a few things were a bit higher than
documented.

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Aaron -- 285/235/200 -- aaron.baugher.biz

I mostly use the USDA values. I have most of the common foods I eat
in a spreadsheet and can calculate recipes from them and so forth.
Most of the values are accurate because I mostly eat whole foods, so
there's not a question of variation in manufacturer recipes.

I also like the USDA database because of the way you can change the
units... I can measure garlic not only by weight (who weighs garlic?),
but in teaspoons (if I'm using prechopped stuff in a jar) or in number
of cloves. I expect the value for a clove of garlic must be less
accurate due to variation in the size of cloves, but it's close enough
for me. Other foods they actually give you "size" choices... like for
whole tomatoes, you can see the value for a small one, a medium one or
a large one.

There's a few things not in the USDA database that I eat regularly.
Like... my particular unsweetened, unflavored protein powder. There I
add the label info to my spreadsheet since I can't get USDA data.

I've recently been using a rather kewl site based on the USDA
database. You have your own "pantry" to which that you can save USDA
info to for items you use often. You can also add custom items. And
then you can make recipes from the pantry items, and save the recipe,
with serving size info and calculated nutritional info in your pantry
also.

It's the first program of it's sort that I've liked better than what I
can do myself: http://www.nutritiondata.com