: Hi, quick question about reading food
: labels.

: I bought a new gluten-free, vegan,
: organic bread, it has only 9
: ingredients, no fillers, and the
: last three ingredients are: raisin
: juice, sea salt, xantham gum.
: (first six are: whole quinoa,
: whole millet, water, pumpkin
: seeds, sunflower seeds, psyllium
: husk.)

: Now, I am confused, because the
: nutritional information label
: specifically states: serving size
: 1 slice, sugars 0g. (total carbs
: are 15g, dietary fiber is 3g of
: that.)

: In your opinion or actual nutritional
: knowledge (even better), is the
: company misrepresenting the sugar
: here, or is it really so low as to
: be negligable?

: Is this something I should not eat on
: a total no-sugar diet?
: Thank you!

Well, you are a great detective

Legally, something like raisin juice would be counted as
a *carb* because of the number of molecules in the chain. This would mean they
wouldn't have to label it as a *sugar.*

This bread sounds great.

And I would never sugar that you have a diet with absolutely *no* sugars in it. Fruit is good,
and the sugars in condiments like ketchup are for the most part pretty low. What we do is try
to help you work with all the other stuff first, and then the *sugar* part is pretty much a non
issue.

hope that makes sense

Kathleen