Hi David,
There are a few "Available Carbohydrate" tagnames which are fairly explicit, noting the components, and differentiating "by summation" vs "by difference" and "by weight" vs "as monosaccharide equivalents". Attached are two papers, old but likely still relevant, on this issue. Maybe not highly relevant to you, but they may be to people who have not appreciated the complexity of what we simply call carbohydrate.
Burlingame, B.A. (1998). Proximate methods and modes of expression: variability as a harmonization issue. Proceedings of the 21st National Nutrient Databank Conference (1996, Baton Rouge), 122-127.
Monro, J.A.; Burlingame, B.A. (1996). Carbohydrates and related food components: INFOODS tagnames, meanings and uses. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 9, 100-118.
Hello:
As we redesign our Nutrient Databank System we will be adding “Available Carbohydrates” to the database. We understand “Available carbohydrate” to be the sum of sugar and starch, However, we wonder which sugars are included in the value for sugar. Is the value for sugars just the sum of the individual monosaccharides and disaccharides (sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, galactose) or do they include other sugars (Dextrins, inulin, oligosaccharides, organic acids and sugar alcohols)?
Thanks,
David
David B. Haytowitz
Nutritionist
Nutrient Data Laboratory, USDA-ARS
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