Carbohydrates are all about energy and are found in foods like fruits, vegetables, breads, pasta, and dairy products.
Your body uses these foods to make glucose, which is your body's main energy source. Glucose is a type of sugar that can be used right away for energy or stored away to be used later....
Brown rice
Quinoa
Rolled Oats
Steel Cut Oats
Muesli
Granola (make sure you check the sugar some of them have a lot of sugar)
Barley
Buckwheat
Couscous
Bulgur
Sweet Potato/Yams
Beans
Whole Grain Pasta, Tortilla, Pancakes, Waffles, Bread
(Carbohydrate-containing foods generally have a combination of two types of carbohydrates: simple and complex.
•Simple carbohydrates: They’re also known as “sugar.” This carbohydrate is made of one sugar or two sugar building blocks connected in a chain. The building blocks can be glucose, fructose and galactose. Because the chains are short, they’re easy to break down, which is why they taste sweet when they hit your tongue. Foods high in simple carbohydrates include sweeteners (table sugar, syrup, honey), candies, jellies and jams, fruits, beans and refined flour.
•Complex carbohydrates: Complex carbs can be either “starch” or “fiber.” This carbohydrate is made of three or more sugars connected in a chain. They use the same sugar building blocks as simple carbs, but the chains are longer and take more time to break down, which is why they don’t taste as sweet. Foods high in complex carbohydrates include bread, rice, pasta, beans, whole grains and vegetables.
Just looking at a nutrition label, you’ll see “dietary fiber” and “sugar” listed under “total carbohydrates,” but do you ever wonder why the grams never add up? “Total carbohydrate” includes all the types of carbohydrates: sugar, fiber and starch. Sugar and fiber get a starring role on the nutrition label because we care about them. However, starch doesn’t, so if you want to figure out how much starch a food contains, you have to do some math.
Here’s the formula in case you’re interested:
total starch (grams) = total carbohydrate (g) – dietary fiber (g) – sugar (g))
Quinoa
Rolled Oats
Steel Cut Oats
Muesli
Granola (make sure you check the sugar some of them have a lot of sugar)
Barley
Buckwheat
Couscous
Bulgur
Sweet Potato/Yams
Beans
Whole Grain Pasta, Tortilla, Pancakes, Waffles, Bread
(Carbohydrate-containing foods generally have a combination of two types of carbohydrates: simple and complex.
•Simple carbohydrates: They’re also known as “sugar.” This carbohydrate is made of one sugar or two sugar building blocks connected in a chain. The building blocks can be glucose, fructose and galactose. Because the chains are short, they’re easy to break down, which is why they taste sweet when they hit your tongue. Foods high in simple carbohydrates include sweeteners (table sugar, syrup, honey), candies, jellies and jams, fruits, beans and refined flour.
•Complex carbohydrates: Complex carbs can be either “starch” or “fiber.” This carbohydrate is made of three or more sugars connected in a chain. They use the same sugar building blocks as simple carbs, but the chains are longer and take more time to break down, which is why they don’t taste as sweet. Foods high in complex carbohydrates include bread, rice, pasta, beans, whole grains and vegetables.
Just looking at a nutrition label, you’ll see “dietary fiber” and “sugar” listed under “total carbohydrates,” but do you ever wonder why the grams never add up? “Total carbohydrate” includes all the types of carbohydrates: sugar, fiber and starch. Sugar and fiber get a starring role on the nutrition label because we care about them. However, starch doesn’t, so if you want to figure out how much starch a food contains, you have to do some math.
Here’s the formula in case you’re interested:
total starch (grams) = total carbohydrate (g) – dietary fiber (g) – sugar (g))
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