Red Bull Sugar Free

[Kay2008]

Hi,

I know many people who are "addicted" to red bull, they drink it day and night lol. I can safely say... I am not one of them. I just like the taste of them!

I recently noticed the sugar free redbull and saw that each 250ml can contains about 2.5g carb.

I am trying to just drink water and nothing else. But thinking maybe at the weekends having a treat and drinking one or two sugar free red bulls.

Does anyone else drink these at all? Is it maybe not a good idea to drink these even if they are only 2.5g carbs each? (other ingredients not so good?) here's a link, scroll down to see nutrition info: http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/5/xpi57949645.htm

(Keeping my daily intake of carbs at 20g's a day or less... not subtracting fibre)

[Elizellen]

If you are only eating 20 total carbs per day then one can of redbull would be 12.5% of your daily allowance and of course 2 would be 25%, which to my mind is a bit high, bearing in mind that we are supposed to get 'most' of our carbs from vegetables on Atkins according to DANDR.

Another thing is that in UK our labels dont include fibre (only USA counts fibre as being a carbohydrate), so when calculating your 20 carbs, make sure you add any fibre listed on any labels to give you a true picture of how many carbs including fibre you are eating.

As to the ingredients, I am not sure what the effects of taurine would be on weightloss but in DANDR it is suggested that we should avoid caffeine, and I noticed this warning on the page you posted a link to Not suitable for children and persons sensitive to caffeine so it must contain a significant amount of caffeine.

Having said that - the only way to find out how it would affect you would be to try.

[Kay2008]

If you are only eating 20 total carbs per day then one can of redbull would be 12.5% of your daily allowance and of course 2 would be 25%, which to my mind is a bit high, bearing in mind that we are supposed to get 'most' of our carbs from vegetables on Atkins according to DANDR.

Another thing is that in UK our labels dont include fibre (only USA counts fibre as being a carbohydrate), so when calculating your 20 carbs, make sure you add any fibre listed on any labels to give you a true picture of how many carbs including fibre you are eating.

As to the ingredients, I am not sure what the effects of taurine would be on weightloss but in DANDR it is suggested that we should avoid caffeine, and I noticed this warning on the page you posted a link to so it must contain a significant amount of caffeine.

Having said that - the only way to find out how it would affect you would be to try.

Yes I suppose you are right! :thup:
You mentioned the fibre there... I'm still a bit confused about this. For example let's take an imaginary piece of food and say it has 5g carbs and 2g fibre... wouldn't that make the actual carb "intake" 3g's? Or have I done that completely wrong... or do I have to add fibre on top to get total carbs?

[Ascombe]

Hi,
My understanding is that fibre doesn't count (as just goes straight though-good for preventing constipation though) but that american food labeling includes it in the carbohydrate count so if your food item has american labelling (or you are using american charts) then you can subtract the fibre count . However uk food labing already subtracts the fibre only leaving the metabolically active carbohydrate so you cannot subtract the fibre count.
Some american food for the low carb market has ECC values which stands (I think) for effective carbohydrate count.

polyols are another issue......

I think this is correct if any one knows otherwise please let me know as I'm doing it wrong!

[Elizellen]

You are right, Ascombe - UK and most other countries outside USA don't count fibre as being a carb at all, so they are not listed in the carb section of the nutrition label.

This actually makes it easier for us to count net carbs as we already are given the net carb amount on them.

Another good thing about our labels is that we get the nutrition 'per 100gr or 100 ml' which makes it easier to work out how many carbs we are taking in, none of that deceptive miniscule 'serving size' which allows them to claim zero carbs if it is less than 0.5 carbs per serving - which is often a doll's size rather than a human's size!! LOL

[Elizellen]

In case you havent read this thread http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=87866 it explains our labelling with regards to carbs better than I did :lol:

[Kay2008]

Thank you Ascombe and Elizellen,

I only really remembered about the fibre thing in the last few days. But I wasn't sure about adding or subtracting lol.

So thankfully I have been put straight... otherwise I would have been subtracting fibre from carbs, and end up eating over my daily allowance (due to UK not needing to subtract fibre).