Guest guest Posted May 28, 2000 Report Share Posted May 28, 2000 Cass > If you'd send me the citations for the German > nutrition references you're using, I'll query a couple > of international agriculture lists that I monitor. Thanks for the offer. The nutrition tables are: Elmadfa, I., Aign, W., Muskat, E, Fritzsche, D.: Die grosse GU Naehrwert- und Kalorien-Tabelle, Gräfe und Unzer Verlag, Munich. 2000, pp. 128 ISBN 3-7742-3739-5 DM 19.80 (they are all nutrition scientists at the University of Giessen, Germany) On page 40 of those tables, the carbohydrate content for Moehren (German word for carrots) is given as 5.2g raw and 3.1g boiled, whereas your USDA source had 10g both raw and cooked. Some members of this list report that boiling increases the GI of carrots whereas 'The Glucose Revolution', 1999 edition, claims that raw carrots have a GI of 95 (p. 54) but lists boiled, canned carrots as having a GI of 49 (p. 244). The other aspect that puzzles me is that US carbohydrate figures seem to include indigestible fiber whereas that would be illegal in Europe - indigestible fiber must by law be listed as a separate food group over here. Most US packaged food sold here has a different contents label glued over the top of the original US label. It would be interesting to know the reason for the different approach to fiber in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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