Hi everybody. Name is Kyle and I am new to the Atkins diet. I am starting on the Atkins 40 due to my desire to lose only 20/25 pounds.

My question is in regard to soy sauce and vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce. My wife is Taiwanese and loves using them to marinade meat, especially pork. Is it ok to use for marinating?

This is the brand of vegetarian mushroom soy sauce we use.

We can use any other kind of soy sauce any recommendations for the most Atkins friendly?

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Whatever you can find that has the lowest carbohydrate content is of course best. It's hard to estimate just how much carbs will end up in the meat itself. Standard soy sauce should be fairly low carb. Most of the stuff I see online has roughly the same amount of salt as sugar, that should help to keep things from getting too out of hand

Most brands of just plain soy sauce show under a gram per tablespoon, but I see this brand of "mushroom" soy sauce is much higher, at six grams per tablespoon,

https://www.caloriecount.com/calori...tir-fry-i171896

so I'd be careful.

Hi and welcome.

I recommend a gluten-free tamari. The brand I use is San-J.

It would be helpful if you filled out the location field in your profile, since this is an international forum. Someone else from your area can probably chime in.

Cheers.

Thanks guys, I will do that. Any other advice would be great!

Kyle

I like to cook with Asian flavors. Currently I'm using Red Boat fish sauce and Bragg's liquid aminos for soy like flavors. Kikkoman is a low carb soy to and pretty good! I've got a long time before I get thru my Gallon of Bragg's liquid aminos.

This could be good for marinade too, Mae Ploy curry pastes mixed with some water, vinegar or soya ?

Good luck and have fun cooking!

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another vote for kikkoman. that's the one i keep on hand.
i don't use oyster sauce at home- but i think it tends to vary a lot more than soy sauce (spy sauce is generally 1g per tbsp, so it is not a concern). oyster i think ranges from 1 to 5 or more per tbsp....so check the label!

my go to asian mix is a combo of soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, ginger, garlic and crushed red pepper- often i add unsweetened seasoned rice vinegar and sweetener, too

if you are in the states, be VERY careful ordering in asian restaurants. they add sugar to EVERYTHING here.

From Ming's website (he's an awesome cooks so I guess this would be some quality stuff. I have heard of the band Wan Ja Shan. But, alas, too many added sugars for me. Same with regular oyster sauce and especially Pad Thai packaged sauces.

http://www.mingspantry.com/wanjashvemuo.html

Wan Ja Shan Vegetarian Mushroom Oyster Sauce

Nutrition Facts: 2 Tsp (10g) Calories 13.6 Fat 0g Cholesterol 0mg Sodium 330mg Carbohydrate 2.9g Sugar 2.3g Protein 0.5g

Thanks everybody. You have been very helpful. Looks like I will cut out the oyster mushroom sauce.

Kyle