Chia seeds

[Holidayweight]

Can someone help , I have got some chia seeds to make a chia pudding/ breakfast. On the package it says carb are 11 carb per 25g , but the recipe say it's on 7 carb for 25g both made with coconut milk

[cheritorrox]

The ones I buy here in Spain are ... per 15g: fat 4.6g, carbs 5.6g, protein 3.3g ... BUT it might be net carb as this brand doesn't show fibre separately - maybe that's why your packet looks higher? Whatever they're very good for you so go for it (but no more than 15g recommended unless in some sort of liquid inc yoghurt - this is coz they swell).

[Praveen55]

Holidayweight

In LCHF diet what matters is the net carb which is total carb minus dietary fibre.

Chia seed has 42 gm total carb and 34 gm dietary fibre per 100 gm.

Therefore, it has only 8 gm net carb per 100 gm.

If you are using 25 gm chia seeds it will have net carb of 2 gm. You have to add net carb of coconut milk to find the carb in the pudding. 7 gm is the net carb of the pudding which sounds okay to me.

11 gm carb per 25 gm chia seeds seems to be right which is total carb. 42/4 = 10.5 which they have approximated to 11 gm.

[Nico101]

Mine are 3.8 g per 100 and are from Whole Food Earth. I put a tbs in my smoothie and have a choccy chia pudding in the evening. It does work with hunger pangs, although I took mine for the health benefits and it help with Crohn's.

[Cooper27]

I've looked up chia seeds on Tescos website, and they have a few brands. One says (per 100g) 2.6g of carbs, 34.7g of fibre. Another says 4.5g carbs, 37g fibre. It's odd!

Is the 11g based on total carbs? What's the fibre content?

[Praveen55]

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[Holidayweight in reply to Praveen55]

Thanks makes more sense now . Had them for breakfast, not sure I like them as not much taste even with vanilla extract .

[Praveen55 in reply to Holidayweight]

Chia seeds do not have any taste of its own. The taste we get is of what we mix it with. I prefer to add it in full fat Greek yoghurt.

[Hidden in reply to Praveen55]

Hi Praveen55 I’ve not actually used Chia seeds yet but I have some in the cupboard. Do you add them to your yogurt and eat them straight away (crunchy) or leave them to soften?

[Praveen55 in reply to Hidden]

I normally leave them in the fridge overnight.

[Hidden in reply to Praveen55]

Thank you 😊

[Cooper27 in reply to Holidayweight]

I bought some freeze dried raspberries on Amazon, and crushing a few of those through the chia pot tastes really yummy. No need for vanilla extract. If you just limit to a few though, because they have 50g net carbs per 100g serving, so I'd not want more than a few g worth.