I found this drink at my work BodyArmor Lyte and it’s nutrition label says 15 calories but 14g of carbohydrates. Only 2g sugar (so theres 8 calories there), but 1) where are the other carbohydrates that isn’t sugar and 2) how can there be 14g of carbs but only 15 calories total?
Link doesn’t work, but I suspect that it contains Erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are considered as carbs officially, but are almost entirely indigestible, so they don’t add any net calories (or at least very very few).
Erythritol is the second ingredient, which is a sugar alcohol with 0 calories per gram (as your body does not digest it). Sugar alcohol gets lumped in with grams of carbohydrate, but it doesn’t contribute any calories. Sometimes you will see the sugar alcohol broken out on a separate line like fiber, but companies are not required to do this unless they make a claim about the sugar content on the package.
Funny you bring this up because I had exact same issu with this product. It annoyed me so much that, I reached out to the company via their website and asked directly. Never heard back, but if you look at the ingredients there are sugar alcohols I believe that they leave out on their nutritional section for the drink. Since they have no blood glucose or caloric impact they can hit the calories they show, but label creators were lazy not to include it.
When I was doing low carb I was taught you subtract sugar alcohols from the carb count, same goes for if it says dietary fiber. So if you have 5g carbs, 2 sugar alcohol, and 1 dietary fiber: you have 2 carbs in that specific product per serving.
Not sure if this is correct, just how I went about it back when.
