Nutrient glossary
What is net carbs?
Net carbs are total carbohydrate minus fibre: the digestible carbohydrate that actually reaches your bloodstream.
Reviewed 20 July 2026. General information, not medical advice.
The short version
Fibre is a carbohydrate you cannot digest, so subtracting it from total carbohydrate leaves the part that becomes blood glucose. That figure, net carbs, is what keto and low-carb plans budget against. A food can look high-carb on the label and still be low in net carbs if most of it is fibre.
Nutrigate never trusts a separately reported net carbs number. Every value on this site is derived the same way, carbs minus fibre, so it can never disagree with the two numbers it comes from.
Daily reference (context, not a goal)
285 g a day
There is no official daily amount. Conventional budgets are about 25 g a day for keto and up to 130 g for low-carb, and otherwise net carbs simply reflect your carb and fibre targets.
This is the fixed adult reference used across these pages. In the app, your amount adjusts to your body and way of eating.
Where net carbs concentrates
| Food | Per serving | Per 100g |
|---|---|---|
| Pizza (cheese) | 66 g | 31 g |
| Pasta (cooked) | 58 g | 29 g |
| Bagel | 53 g | 51 g |
| Brown Rice (cooked) | 47 g | 24 g |
| White Rice (cooked) | 44 g | 28 g |
| Pitta Bread | 32 g | 54 g |
| Granola | 32 g | 57 g |
| Red Lentils | 31 g | 52 g |
Shown for awareness: the reference for net carbs is a stay-under or context amount, so this table is about knowing where it lives, not chasing more of it.
Common questions
- How do you calculate net carbs?
- Total carbohydrate minus fibre. A food with 20 g of carbs and 7 g of fibre has 13 g of net carbs.
- Do sugar alcohols change net carbs?
- Some partly digest and some do not. Generic food data does not separate them reliably, so Nutrigate keeps the definition strict: carbs minus fibre.