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on Wednesday, 19 February 2020.
Tagged: health, low carb, nutrition, Product snapshot, review, seeds, whole grains
If you’re trying to maximise your wholegrain intake while reducing your overall carbs, then these crispbreads might just suit you.
While not everyone would endorse a super low carb eating regime, I think there is some consensus that generally we eat too many carbs and especially too many refined carbs. These Multigrain Ryvita crispbreads contain 83 per cent wholegrain rye flour, together with buckwheat, toasted seeds, rye bran and salt.
This is one of the odd times where the per 100 gram quantity isn’t as helpful as the serving size. Normally we look at the per 100 g quantities of a nutrient so we can get a fair and equal comparison but here the serving size is more useful.
A whole grain rye bread such as Burgen Rye has much less rye and its carbs per 100 g are lower at 35 g compared to 56 g for the Ryvita. However, the serving sizes show the opposite. A serve of the bread (2 slices) has 20.4 g whereas a serve of the Ryvita (also 2 slices) has only 11.7 g.
Despite their drawbacks, I like these crispbreads. For me they’re more economical than bread, which tends to go mouldy before I can eat it all. Yes, I know I can freeze it, and I do, but it still has more carbs per slice than I want and costs more than the Ryvita. I also prefer the Ryvita to the low carb breads which I find pall after a while, are very expensive and I’m still getting a good dose of wholegrains and seeds.
Post written by Munaiba Khan, a retired naturopath with an interest in nutrition.
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