Help with Reading European Food Labelling

[227]

Hi guys,

To all of us with European food labels, can you tell me which carbs figure to calculate my carbs with...

My Beefburger box reads:

Nutrition Per Burger 100g
Protein 14.0g 16.7g

Carbs 3.1g 3.6g
- Of which sugars 0.3g 0.4g

My question:
Is each burger 3.1 g of carbs or 0.3 g of carbs?

The front of the box advertises 0.3g Sugar.... but the burger figures are 3.1g, ie 10 times higher.
What's happening here? If I have 2 burgers am I having 0.6g or 6.2g?

[Lucinda36]

<<Carbs 3.1g 3.6g
- Of which sugars 0.3g 0.4g<<

The burger would have 3.1 grams of carbs. What's the 3.6 referring to?

And, more importantly, why does it have carbs at all? Meat is 0 carbs.

What kind of fillers are in there?

What's the list of ingredients???

Many European labels do not consider fiber to be a carbohydrate, so it's already subtracted from the total carbohydrate count.

I would certainly expect a burger to have 0 carbs... either here in the US or Europe.

[mone]

The second numbers, like the 3.6 g carbs and 16.7 g protein, probably relate to the serving size, which is supposed to be 120 g if I calculated right :)
So if you make one burger, you have 3.6 g carbs, of which are 0.4 g from pure sugar.

Maybe it is already spiced, so that you just have to make the patties and fry them, that's probably why there are carbs in it.

When I make burgers myself, I also do not use only beef, but also an egg and normally some breadcrumbs to make the beef stick together.

[Elizellen]

I imagine it has something like breadcrumbs or rusk as a filler, which accounts for the carbs in it.
I just buy ground meat (minced beef in UK) and make my own, adding some spices to make it tastier.

[227]

Thanks guys.

I think the 2 figures are
a. per burger 3.1 g carbs
b. per 100 g 3.6 g carbs.

So as I'm eating a burger then I calculate 3.1g carbs.

Thank you so much. It's so misleading, I thought I was only having 0.3 g carbs!!

Thankyou, thank you.

[Lucinda36]

What's in the list of ingredients? It shouldn't have carbs at all unless there's fillers... and why do you want fillers?

[227]

I've been hunting through the full range of burgers in all the UK supermarkets. They're all labelled 100% beef, but also have carbs....???

So far around 3.1 g carbs per burger seems an average carb amount, even where it's specified 100% beef.

As I check out a wider range of supermarkets, I'm hoping to find a burger that actually has 0.0g, but not found one, yet.

If anyone knows of a global/european brand that has 0.0g?

I've also bought the mince meat, to do homemade. Any nice burger receipes out there?

[Elizellen]

I've been hunting through the full range of burgers in all the UK supermarkets. They're all labelled 100% beef, but also have carbs....???They get away with this because the label '100% beef' just means that all the meat in it was once part of a cow! The carbs will have come from all the other ingredients listed in teeny tiny letters on the back of the packet.