carbs, fibre and US Agriculture database

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Hi all, I read recently that the American Nutrition Figures usually

count fibre as a carbohydrate calorie, can any one tell me if my

reasoning is therefore correct and if this is true.

If I choose raw broccoli from:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search

For 100g the data listed is - 34 calories, 6.64g carbs and 2.6g

fiber. Now am I correct to minus the fibre calories from the carb

calories thus leaving the actual carb figure as 4.04g (6.64g minus

2.6g) and am I right in then taking those 2.6g carbs from the total

calories resulting in 2.6x4 (4 being calories for a gram of carb)

and therefore resulting in a total calories of 23.6. Is this

correct ?

thanks in advance, richard ..