Low Carb Diet Plan vs Garbohydrates

You won’t have heard of the term ‘garbohydrates’ before. It’s a new word to describe the high density refined carbohydrates, flour and sugar, and the food that’s made with them.

Flour on its own – bread and pasta

Sugar on its own.
Flour and sugar – particularly breakfast biscuits and muesli bars that contain over 10% added sugar.

The situation gets worse with the addition of fat into the equation.

Flour and fat – pizza, bread and butter, fry biscuits …
Sugar and fat – chocolate and ice-cream

And there’s more.

Fat, flour and sugar – biscuits and cake, …

Garbohydrate Energy Density

Bread’s about 1000 Kg/100gms.
Flour on it’s own is around 1500Kj/100 gms
Sugar on its own, 1700Kj/100gms.
The plainest, commonest, ordinary, everyday sweet biscuit, 1930Kj/100 gms. 100gms is half a packet.
Jatz cracker, 1960Kj/100gms.
Tim Tam chocolate biscuit; 2160/100gms
Chocolate; 2200Kj/100gms.
Ritz cracker; 2370Kj/100gms.