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today i’m going to answer some questions on my  youtube channel someone wanted to know can a  

product with dextrose still be classified as  keto and the answer is technically maybe it  

really depends on how much dextrose preferably  you want carbohydrates that are low glycemic  

which means they don’t create a huge spike in  your blood sugars now the essence of what makes  

keto keto is the low carb the carbs need to be  below 50 grams or less per day and then what’s  

left is moderate protein and high fat if the fats  high if your protein is moderate and your carbs  

are high that is not keto so to really be keto  it has to be low carb preferably below 30 grams  

per day but it can go up as high as 50 grams as  your carbs become higher and higher above 50 grams  

you’re gonna have less and less ketones so what  you’re doing is you’re depriving your body of  

carbohydrates so then it’s forced to burn fat and  make ketones out of fat now a carbohydrate is a  

term to describe fiber sugar and starch now let’s  take a bagel for example one bagel is 50 grams  

of carbohydrate and a bagel only has 2 grams  of fiber so when you don’t have enough fiber  

you don’t have that buffer for that blood sugar  spike so the lower amount of fiber the higher the  

glycemic index and then in a bagel you have seven  grams of sugar i consider that on the high side if  

you’re going to consume something you probably  want to keep it two grams of sugar or less  

but seven grams of sugar pretty high for one bagel  now the question is what is left what’s left is  

starch and what a starch is it’s the string of  glucose molecules stuck together and so on the  

body it’s going to break down and it’s going  to then spike your blood sugars and there’s  

some other variables as well which i don’t want to  get into in this video i’ll put a link down below  

for that video but for example if you were to  eat a raw potato a lot of it’s starch it won’t  

affect your blood sugars because it’s not heated  like if you’re going to consume a potato chip  

or a french fry or cook potatoes as in mashed  potatoes the heat breaks down the enzymes which  

make these glucose molecules very available so  when you eat them you’re going to really spike  

your blood sugars now recently there are so many  people coming out with so-called keto-friendly  

foods desserts that are really not keto friendly  so here are some ingredients you’d want to avoid  

if you see these in the keto friendly foods  dextrose maltodextrin dextrin that stands for  

iso malto oligosaccharides at one time i thought  that was keto friendly but i found some data  

that showed that it’s not very keto friendly i  did a video on it i’ll put the link down below  

corn syrup sugar raw sugar sometimes people think  because it’s raw it’s keto friendly no that’s not  

true tapioca not keto friendly fructose coconut  sugar agava nectar honey maple syrup molasses  

all of those are not keto friendly and of course  avoid pasta bread grains fruit unless they’re  

berries in certain quantities corn and potato hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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