UK Food Labels: Carbohydrates....(of which sugars).....?

I am following Rose Elliot's Low Carb Vegetarian Diet however it is not clear in her book how to read UK food labels. In the USA the Carbs are labelled "Total Carbs" and then after calculating the fibre content give the remaining "Net Carbs". In the UK the labels read "Total Carbs" and then "Of which sugars".

Are they the same? The only reason why I think that they are not is because the sugar content is so low I think that I am missing the real carb content.

So, following a low carb diet in the United Kingdom, how do I caculate the Net, or useable, Carbohydrate value in foods?

In the United Kingdom fibre is shown separately than carbs. They are seperate things on our labels.

In other words, the 'total carbs' value is the 'net carb' count.

There are 2 types of carb glucose which is in fruit and starch which is in bread and pasta and things like that. starch is worse for you.

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