Are Granola Bars Keto Friendly?

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this video is going to answer a question  someone wanted to know are those granola bars keto friendly i decided just to do a  whole video just on this one topic because you know when you look on the label it  says it’s 100 natural they have this beautiful image that you’re in a farm it’s  natural it’s oats and honey i mean come on that’s that sounds healthy there’s nuts  almonds there’s walnuts there’s peanuts and there’s no artificial flavoring or colorings  okay so that sounds pretty darn healthy to me but if you actually read the label you’ll  notice that there’s whole oats whole oats are obviously a little bit better than refined  oats but they’re still a carbohydrate and the second ingredient is sugar now anytime  you read the back of the label and you read the ingredients the ingredients at the the first and  second and third pretty much make up the majority of that product so we have a good amount of oats  we have a good amount of sugar then we have canola oil this is omega-6 and it’s gmo and omega-6 fatty  acids can be inflammatory they’re pro-inflammatory which can worsen insulin resistance and create  problems yellow corn flour is the next ingredient it’s very high in the glycemic index it’s going  to turn into sugar pretty quickly and then you have soy flour it’s probably going to be gmo  because unless it’s organic it’s going to be gmo and then they add more sugar as brown sugar  syrup we’ve got baking soda and natural flavoring so we’ve got one two three four five six  seven eight so six out of the eight ingredients are going to affect your blood sugars so the  sugars total about 29 grams per serving with added sugar of 12 grams that’s three teaspoons  of added sugar in two bars so that would be one serving size because i think they come in  two bars per package now at the very bottom it says carbohydrate choice two i had  to look up what that meant and this is a rating scale and i think it was developed  by the academy of nutrition on dietetics now if your choice one that that’s like 15 grams  of sugar i think it goes up to five maybe it goes higher but this relates to kind of a point system  with carbohydrates now when i start to look into this this is what they recommend for men you can  have between four and five which comes out to 60 to 75 grams of carbs per meal  okay so that’s a lot of carbohydrates but if you’re a female it’s three to four so  that’s 45 grams to 60 grams of carbs per meal now also on the same document they’re talking  about a diabetic and so if you’re a diabetic they’re still allowing these as long as you take  your medication to control your blood sugars and so their suggestion is to maintain that carb level  so it doesn’t throw off your medication because if you’re taking less carb you’re going to need  less medication isn’t the goal to have less blood sugars so why would you want to add more carb so  you have to take more medication to regulate this excessive amount of carb so anyway these somewhat  natural granola bars might appear to be very very natural and maybe they are but there sure is a  lot of carbohydrate and it’s not keto friendly before you go if you have a question about a  product or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you  need a debug because it’s not going as smooth i have a keto consultant standing  by to help you this is just for the people in the u. s hopefully in the future  we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below so  you can call and get some help you