What is a 'net carb'?

What is a 'net carb'?

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Well again, there's not really an official definition of net carb, but essentially the idea behind that is fibre is a carbohydrate, but fibre carries little to no calories. So if you subtract the fibre from the total grams of carbohydrate in that food, what you're left over with is the net grams. Also the sugar alcohols, they are also carbohydrates, but they're lower in calories than, you know, regular sugar, so that takes away from your net carbs as well. So subtracting out the sugar alcohol and subtracting out the fibre.