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Ok I know I'm going to sound very lazy but I enjoy my sachet of cadbury highlights now and then but I'm fed up of having to take the measuring jug out every time to measure the 200ml of water so does anyone know if I just filled the cup would it increase or decrease the carbohydrate value x
If I understand the question Kaylz (which I might not!) the carb value would be the same regardless because the amount of chocolate powder would be the same, if it's like options then 3 teaspoons is about 6g of carb I think. It would only change carb wise if you used fewer or more teaspoons of powder 🙂
Erm ok thanks but I am feeling like a complete idiot now and can't believe I've actually wasted time in my day to measure boiling bloody water haha, it's the little 11g sachet's so just under 5g carbs the pack tells me, yay no measuring water tomorrow 🙂 lol however I am away to put my silly hat on and sit in the corner 🙂 x
Erm ok thanks but I am feeling like a complete idiot now and can't believe I've actually wasted time in my day to measure boiling bloody water haha, it's the little 11g sachet's so just under 5g carbs the pack tells me, yay no measuring water tomorrow 🙂 lol however I am away to put my silly hat on and sit in the corner 🙂 x
Erm ok thanks but I am feeling like a complete idiot now and can't believe I've actually wasted time in my day to measure boiling bloody water haha, it's the little 11g sachet's so just under 5g carbs the pack tells me, yay no measuring water tomorrow 🙂 lol however I am away to put my silly hat on and sit in the corner 🙂 x
If it helps at all I had one of those days too yesterday I said "so how frequently does the weekly report go out then?" In a very packed meeting, the person to my left looked at me with that "eh???" Sort of face and still I didn't twig. Finally a very polite colleague said "well I think it goes out every week". We moved on (I still hadn't twigged) and then about 2 hours later I had a doh moment. I'm blaming the weather or my blood sugar which was dawdling around the 4.1 mark. That's my story and I'm sticking to it 😱. Hope you enjoyed the hot chocolate
Sorry to come back on to this old thread but if the carbs is in the powder and doesn't matter if you add more water why is it that the Nescafe Vanilla Latte states on asda website per 100ml 5.5 but Tesco has per mug 13.2, it's probably a very stupid question that I should know the answer to but if the same amount of powder is used I don't get it x
Sorry to come back on to this old thread but if the carbs is in the powder and doesn't matter if you add more water why is it that the Nescafe Vanilla Latte states on asda website per 100ml 5.5 but Tesco has per mug 13.2, it's probably a very stupid question that I should know the answer to but if the same amount of powder is used I don't get it x
I suspect the 'per 100ml' is assuming you have made up the whole sachet with a mug full of water ( normally about 250ml) and it is then just measuring part of it (100ml's worth) to give a uniform figure so you can compare it to other drinks.It seems unnecessarily confusing, I'm not surprised you're scratching your head!
It's a mystery to me. The coffee is rated at 71.3 carbs/100g which equals 1.4 carbs/g and each sachet contains 15g, so a single sachet is 1.4 x 15 = 21 g of carbs. How this results in a mug of coffee coming out at 13.2g carbs has me beaten though intrigued.
No it's 1.04 pounds, don't know about sparkling water. Of course 1ml only weighs 1g at normal temp, but the switch on my scales does the same conversion whatever the liquid is
It's a mystery to me. The coffee is rated at 71.3 carbs/100g which equals 1.4 carbs/g and each sachet contains 15g, so a single sachet is 1.4 x 15 = 21 g of carbs. How this results in a mug of coffee coming out at 13.2g carbs has me beaten though intrigued.
Sorry to come back on to this old thread but if the carbs is in the powder and doesn't matter if you add more water why is it that the Nescafe Vanilla Latte states on asda website per 100ml 5.5 but Tesco has per mug 13.2, it's probably a very stupid question that I should know the answer to but if the same amount of powder is used I don't get it x
Both sites say the same: each packet is 18.5g, the carb content is 71.3 per 100g packet contents, so 71.3/100*18.5 gives you 13.2g per drink, it's irrelevant on the mug size. If you make the mug to the recommended size of 240ml then per 100ml it's 5.5g carb, but who cares, you're going to drink the lot.
