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by keybored 804 days ago
What is supposed to be low? In my casual supermarket label reading you seem to get at least some carbs (non-fiber) from things like cauliflower and other greenstuff. I was happy when I could get stuff that all had at most 5g carbs per 100g. But I was doing very informal low-carb and not keto.
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Right, I was kind of getting at that: there's a difference between "low" and "low-enough-to-induce-ketogenesis" when it comes to carbs.

For example, the Atkins diet, despite being very low-carb, didn't result in a lot of people accidentally becoming ketogenic.

> Right, I was kind of getting at that: there's a difference between "low" and "low-enough-to-induce-ketogenesis" when it comes to carbs.

But I asked exactly what grams-per-day is low enough for keto.

50g