Thread: Konjac Flour
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Old Sat, Feb-24-18, 12:36
Meetow Kim Meetow Kim is offline
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I just recently found out about Konjac. Don't know a lot about it yet but it was the fist nutritional information I ever saw where the fiber was higher than the carbs. The product I looked at was a knjac noodle product floating in liquid. The Konjac powder I just found on Amazon is an even carb/fiber ratio, but still, net carb free. Not sure how that noodle product arrives at negative carbs. I suspect labeling is sometimes less than precise, especially with imported foods. I could be wrong, but I've seen different nutritional info on different sized package of the same product in my local Asian market with very different numbers in the same serving size.

I cant help you with using this stuff yet as I haven't bought any yet, but I'm now curious since you and others have been using it as a thickener, I wonder if it would behave like cornstarch for coating fried foods. I like to shake my chicken wings in cornstarch or rice flour before deep frying for instance, and while the carbs are not a total killer for Atkins phase 2 and beyond for the amount of cornstarch needed, if I could find an alternative, it would remove those carbs and I could enjoy the carb allowance in some other form.

Its amazing the products one runs in to when looking at stuff like this. I searched Amazon for the Konjac flour and ended up adding this baking blend to my wish list

https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy...=cm_wl_huc_item

And this Baobab powder that seems like it might come with a lot of flavor for just a little carbs

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZIS4V...GKHZ7RQH3W&th=1

One could go broke on this low carb diet stuff!
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