About carbs and fiber: Anyone ever heard of this claim?

I have heard that one, but do not believe it is worth the effort! I just do manage to count the total grams of carbohydrate to do the math necessary to do my normal Humalog injections before meals.

My thought is that a carbohydrate is a carbohydrate no matter if it is a simple sugar or a chunk of sugar cane to chew on! Now that is almost pure fiber!! But it will raise my glucose like a spoonful of table sugar will. Not as much as a plain regular tortilla will, but still enough to make me adjust my insulin to fit it.

I do not ever buy those "diabetic friendly", "low carbohydrate" or any other specialty food. I would rather deal with real traditional foods. If I want half the carbs of a regular tortilla, I eat half the tortilla!

If the FDA okayed it, it must have some merit. To be safe I deduct only half the fiber value and was told to try and eat things where the fiber percentage is equal to or greater than the total carb percentage.

The claim is that dietary fibers pass through your digestive tract undigested but that's quite variable and is dependent on the bacteria living in your digestive tract. For many people, they can use net carbs but for some, it doesn't work that well. However it's better to undercount your carbs then overcount as overcounting can result in too much insulin.