I found out I didn’t know WTFork low carb was all because of this snack food “Quinoa Crisps” that I liked. I thought they seemed forking healthy and low carb as much as a snack food could be…after all they were called Quinoa Crisp. The nutrition seemed pretty natural and healthy with forking low calories and almost fat free……  I did forking notice that quinoa wasn’t a top ingredient in quinoa chips.

A closer look at the nutrition reveals The Forking Truth!

One ounce is only 100 calories and 1 gram fat BUT THE TOTAL CARBOHYDRATES are a FORKING 20 GRAMS FOR ONLY ONE FORKING OUNCE!

LOOK

Forking potato chips has only 15 grams!

I always heard that a high carb food was something  starchy like a potato, bread or pasta so I looked up the nutrition of a potato. About 3 1/2 ounces or 100 grams of a plain baked potato has 18 grams of total carbohydrate. THAT MEANS anyone can eat 3 1/2 FORKING TIMES the amount of potato and that’s STILL FORKING 2 LESS total carbohydrates to equal the total carbohydrates in just one ounce of Quinoa Crisps!

So I thought I’d do a little more forking research and here it is.

Low carbohydrate diets are used to treat or prevent chronic conditions including cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

The typical low carbohydrate diet consist of meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, nuts, seeds, leafy vegetables, some other non-starchy vegetables and berries.

Some fruits and vegetables are high carb.

Very High Carb fruits are

tangerines, cherries, grapes, pomegranates, mangos, figs, bananas & dried fruits

High Carb Vegetables are

beets, peas, acorn & butternut squash, water chestnuts, parsnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn & plantains. (a serving of 100 grams of example cooked beets run about 9.5 grams of total carbs and 100 grams of yams run 37 grams of total carbs)

It’s nearly forking impossible to determine how many carbohydrates you should consume in a day. Basically if you are young, active and healthy it should be about 40% of calorie intake. If you  are 50 and over and or have health issues the number goes somewhere around 20% of your food intake and one site I came across rolled out a carb number of only 130 a day for people with high sugar or diabetes.

It’s hard to tell WTFork is low carbohydrate.

Most information came from AboutHealth.com and Wikipedia