Question about fiber and carbs. I know you subtract fiber from the carb count in food, since your body doens’t process it like a carb. Does that mean your body doesn’t get any calories from fiber?
As an alternative to oatmeal, I saw some flax meal cereal. But if it’s most carb calories, which are mostly fiber, do I get enough calories from it?
Thanks.
There are no absorbed calories from fiber, or at least not for the most part (there might be some partial exception I’m not aware of.)
Yeah, fibre is just natures brillo pad. It just goes straight through.
There is calories from fibre (16kJ per g as far as I can remember, something like that anyway)
It comes indirectly from the colonic digestion of fibre my gut bacteria. It creates short chain fatty acid that is used as energy by the colonic epithelium as well as carried via the portal vein to the liver. Also creates the lovely gas as well…to keep your wife/partner impressed =)