Jake said:
Alright, I know that during the induction phase sugar is strictly
prohibited. What I don't know is what that means exactly! Is it if
any form of sugar appears in the ingredients? Or does it mean that the
carbs from sugar on the nutritional label should read zero? I only ask
because there are a few approved food items for the induction phase
that have a few sugar grams listed under the carb count.
There was so much bickering I don't know if you caught the
couple of posts with the answer, so I'll repeat.
It's the sugar in the ingredients.
The sugar on the nutritional info, if it was a pineapple
you'd understand that it just grew there from the start.
Some sugar grew there from the start in every type of
plant-based food.
Quoted message said:One of those
is cream cheese. There are 1 to 2 grams of sugars from Carbs listed on
the nutritional label of every cream cheese that I've looked at.
In addition to plant-based foods having sugar that grew
there from the start, so does milk. Skim milk has the
most since it's a waste product of cream production,
heavy cream the least because the easy to remove carbs
went into the skim milk. All other dairy products have
some residual sugar from this starting point.
The amount in cream cheese is small, and it's not added
sugar so it's okay. It is carbs so it does count against
your daily quota of 20 during Induction.
Quoted message said:Also,
every Atkins brand shake has sugars from Carbs listed as well but those
are recommended during induction as well.
Note that there is a financial incentive for Atkins to
recommend Atkins-branded products. Then look carefully
at what the book says about products from competing
companies. A cautious person could apply the restrictions
on those other-company products to Atkins-labelled
products in reaction to that financial incentive.
The shakes have low carb counts and no issues about
hidden carbs missing from the label, so they aren't a
problem for the carb-counting half of Atkins. The
food intolerance half of Atkins is another issue.
Carefully rad the ingredients on the label and compare
with the carb ladder. A cautious person could use the
rungs of the carb ladder to decide when the shakes should
be added.