What are 'other carbohydrates?'?

I ate cereal for breakfast and dinner today. They are both low-fat and cholosterol free but they do cary carbs. They were to different kinds of cereal though. On the nutrition facts it listed:
-Total carbohydrates
-Other carbohdrates

Their listed right below one another. Are 'other carbohydrates' bad for you? What are they? I am on a diet so should I stop eating this cereal?

**Please somebody explain what they are, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks :]

Im 125lbs 5'5,
I am trying to get more fit hehe

You are correct about "other carbohydrates". Cereals are highly processed and most of them are junk that includes a lot of sugar. This is something most people ignore but don't realize that in a fat loss diet, dry cereals are some of the worst things you can have. Just look at the ingredients and look for the added sugars, nearly all of them have it. Also, there are going to be lots of additives and preservatives as well as other chemicals. Nothing wholesome about that.

The fact is that bad ingredients don't make up for the presence of good ingredients. You'd be a lot better off with a low GI carb like whole oatmeal in the morning with some egg whites and fruit and a lean meat like chicken or fish in the evenings with some fibrous veggies.

Here's an example of a so-called "healthy" diet cereal that is heavily marketed as healthy but in reality is not:

http://www.specialk.com/html/images/cere...

The vitamins and minerals are added after the fact using substandard ingredients, nothing as good as you'd find in whole foods. Skipping past that, look at the ingredients, it has sugar as one of the primary ingredients, followed not far behind by HFCS! This is the kind of thing they hope you don't catch hold of by swaying you with the low calorie claims.

Edit:

There are different kinds of carbs, it's simplistic to think they are all the same. High GI carbs and low GI carbs make up the two types. It's up to the manufacturer to determine what is listed as "other carbs", you have to devine for yourself what is actually in the ingredients. Most people don't have a clue what they're eating and trust the manufacturer to guide them right, a bad move to make as the manufacturer does not care about the health of consumers just the bottom line.

Additionally, you want to avoid carb heavy foods later at night. As it gets later in the day the cells become less insulin responsive, meaning they cannot uptake nutrients as well. Carbs in this case will tend to be shunted to energy storage (bodyfat). Plus, unless you're an advanced athlete, glycogen stores are already full so you don't need the extra carbs.

God that wasn't very kind. Anyway, Other Carbs refers to whatever is NOT already listed in the Carb section on food. Sugars are a Carb, and all Carbs contain 4 calories per gram of fat, just like Protein. Fat contains NINE (9) calories per gram, so if its pure weight loss you're worried about, foods high in fat are what pack on the calories - carbs at least give you some energy.

instead of sugar, maybe cellulose, fiber, starch.

the bad carbs are white flour, sugar, processed starch foods.. the rest are good.

animal proteins are bad.

Carbohydrates generally break down into 2 categories: Starches and fibers, neither of which are really bad for you.

Starches i'm sure you're familiar with, provide energy, but if not used, turn into fat, which is a much better energy-storage mechanism.

Fibers generally run through your digestive system undigested and aid in *ahem, pooping. So it's generally a good idea to get your fiber in. Studies have shown that fiber lowers the risk of colon cancer, as an added bonus.

I think fiber may be part of the "other carbohydrates," in which case, you have nothing to worry about. In fact, it'd probably be better to, if you're not a physically active person, to watch your starches more than your "other carbohydrates," since they have that tendency to turn into fat if not utilized.

Carbs are starches which are sugars
Sugars burn before fat, so if you eat sugar you will burn fat after the sugar.
Thusly keeping the fat unless you bust those calories with exercise burning all that sugar, then burning into the fat
Also a scientific phenomenon occurs when one eats protein without carbs. One starves. It seems that carbohydrates are necessary to metabolise protein. Without carbs one essentially starves. So the no carb diet is starving oneself to the desired weight.
Cereal,bread/tortilla,potatoes, flour,rice,grains,nuts,seeds.
crackers, cookies, get the idea.
protein + carbohydrates = weight
Protein - carbs = weight loss