On the back of every Sweet Logic bag there is a small piece of arithmetic: total carbohydrate, minus dietary fiber, equals net carbs. It is printed there because the subtraction is the interesting part, and because a number without its working shown is just a claim.
Total carbohydrate is an umbrella. Sitting underneath it are starches, sugars and fiber — three things that behave very differently once you eat them, grouped together on the panel because they are all chemically carbohydrates. That grouping is the source of most of the confusion.
What fiber is doing in that number
Dietary fiber is carbohydrate your small intestine largely cannot break down. It passes through structurally intact, and a portion of it is fermented further down by gut bacteria rather than absorbed as glucose. It still gets counted in total carbohydrate on the panel, because the panel counts by chemistry, not by outcome.
Subtracting fiber from total carbohydrate is how the net carb figure is produced. It is not a regulated term and it does not appear on the Nutrition Facts panel itself — which is exactly why we print the equation rather than only the result. You can check our math against the panel two inches away.
Specimen CK-01 · per serving, 8 cookies (28g)
Why the fiber load is this high
A conventional mini cookie is mostly refined flour and sugar. Ours is built on a proprietary blend of cassava root fiber, inulin and oat fiber, which is doing structural work as well as nutritional work — in a gluten-free dough, something has to hold the crumb together, and here that job falls to the fiber network rather than to gluten.
The practical consequence is that fiber is not an additive sprinkled in at the end to improve a number on the front of the bag. Remove it and there is no cookie left to sell. That is what we mean when we say the difference is structural.
How to read our panel
Three lines are worth checking. Dietary fiber, because it is the number being subtracted. Total sugars, because that is what the less-sugar comparison rests on. And sugar alcohol, which reads zero on every Sweet Logic specimen — some low-carb products subtract those as well, and we have nothing to subtract.
The comparison on the front of the bag is against a leading cookie carrying 14g of total sugars per 34g serving. Ours carries 3g per 28g serving in CK-01, and 5g in CK-02 and CK-03. That is the whole basis of the claim, stated so you can verify it.
Nutrition information is provided for reference. Sweet Logic makes no health or benefit claims.
See the panel on CK-01