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today we’re going to talk about the

tomato versus that carrot what is better

on keto the reason I created this video

is to show you a couple things about the

total carb the net carb a fiber and the

sugar okay so if we’re talking about

vegetables there are certain vegetables

that are a little bit higher in sugar

less fiber than other vegetables like

for example celery for example has a lot

of fiber very low sugar not a heck of a

lot of carbohydrate so you really have

to kind of think with it when you’re

doing key tell because we want low carb

as much as possible low sugar of course

but check this out we’re allowed some

carbohydrate between 20 and 50 grams

okay

I’m gonna recommend counting the net car

but not the total carb why because the

net carb is basically the total carb -

the fiber and fiber does not have any

influence over insulin it will not

affect your insulin levels so we don’t

have to include that in this formula so

let’s start with the tomato if we

compare that to a carrot it’s 11 grams

of carbs okay

the goal of keto is to keep your carbs

low but so far within we’re within the

range then if we get the fiber it’s 1.5

karat has 3 grams of fiber so obviously

the carrot has more fiber the more fiber

the less the insulin response because it

buffers the carbohydrate so if we take

the net carb with the tomato we’re only

dealing with 3.3 grams it’s pretty low

right now with a carrot we’re dealing

with 8 grams more than double so

obviously right off the bat tomato is

better than carrot on keto but let’s

look at the sugars 3 grams of sugar 5

grams of sugar over here so obviously

the tomato wins but if you compare these

two we’re still well within our limit

right here so if you’re doing keto I

would not necessarily try

to restrict this either one of these

unless you have a very slow metabolism

and it’s not working and you want to

find an area that you need to bring your

curbs even lower now I want to show you

one more thing I want to show you the

potato the potato is also a vegetable

but it’s also a starch so we start out

one potato this is basically one cup

right and this is one cup of potato 37

grams of carbs and that’s almost four

times a cup of carrots so it’s quite a

bit of carb now as far as fiber it’s

four point seven grams not that much all

right with the net carb of thirty two

point three grams if we compare that to

a tomato it’s ten times more than a

tomato and then we have the sugars one

point seven grams that’s pretty low

that’s actually less than a tomato right

less than a carrot so you’re like wow it

has less sugar it must be okay but wait

a second we have thirty two point three

net carbs and 1.7 grams of sugar but

what’s the difference here it’s starch

okay

starch would be compared as your stored

sugar in your body or glycogen okay

that’s where the starches like rice is

the starch now if we look at a carrot

okay we have the difference between five

grams and eight grams so we’re getting a

very very small amount of starch right

compared to this one point seven 232 now

look at the difference between three and

three point three so we have a very very

tiny amount of starch in a tomato a

little more in a carrot but a tremendous

amount of it in a potato this starch is

a type of carbohydrate that can affect

our blood Sugar’s if we cook it okay if

you fry it if you bake it because it’s

gonna break it down it’s gonna release

it if you did a raw potato chances are

it’s not going to actually affect your

blood Sugar’s too much but who is going

to want to consume a raw potato

but another point I want to bring up is

the way that these foods are prepared

the more you cook the tomato the more

you’re gonna release the starch the more

you cook the carrot the greater the

breakdown of starch the higher the blood

sugars but this is going to be the worst

right here so you’d want to avoid

potatoes in the form of the potato chip

the French fry the baked potato or the

mashed potato because you’re gonna

massively spike your blood sugars with

that all right guys I hope that’s

clarified a couple things thanks for

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