Carbs for Strawberries
Strawberries do have carbs. When you are on keto diet, you need to pay attention to daily carbs intake. Your daily carbs should be 5% of total calories and not to exceed 50 grams.
How many carbs for strawberries?
This fruit is low in carbs and you can include it in your keto diet. 1/2 cup of strawberries halves has 6g total carbs and 2g of fibre.
Strawberries are keto-friendly. They are also high in vitamin C, folate acid and magnesia.
Strawberries are essential for skin health and teeth whitening. They are also famous for blood pressure control. Vitamin C helps to beat seasonal colds.
Most of carbs for strawberries are fructose and glucose. Strawberries fructose does not lift blood glucose. The potassium in strawberries helps maintain normal blood pressure.
100 grams of whole fresh strawberries are roughly 32 calories.
If you are unable to find fresh strawberries, frozen ones can be a good alternative. However, keep an eye on added sugars as sometimes frozen strawberries can contain it and it will add to total carbs intake.
Did you know that strawberries are 91% of water? They also contain small amount of protein, which was quite a discovery for me as I usually pictured meat and eggs as main protein sources.
Strawberries have antioxidants; they prevent and repair body cells damage. Strawberries also help to fight inflammation. They protect against heart diseases, stroke, and cancer.
To sum up, how many carbs for strawberries? Though carbs in strawberries are relatively low, while on a keto diet, you should take this fruit in moderation.
Keto-friendly strawberry recipes:
- My favourite easy to make strawberry keto desert is heavy double cream with a pinch of vanilla covering strawberries.
- Strawberry smoothie – coconut milk, fresh or frozen strawberries. You can add heavy cream to thicken the drink or sugar-free sweetener
You can use this keto-friendly sweetener
- Strawberry salad – Parma ham, strawberries, feta cheese, olive oil, walnuts, salt and pepper to your taste, quick and simple, perfect fit for keto-friendly lunch
- Strawberry Greek yogurt – you can mix these two ingredients and top them up with keto-friendly seeds – which makes a perfect snack
To remain in ketosis, you need to eat less than 50 gram of carbs a day. Keto-friendly fruit are the ones which are low in carbs and low-glycaemic. Tomatoes is a good example of keto-friendly product. You can add tomato sauce to chicken or cherry tomatoes to your salads.
Prunes are also keto-friendly and can add sweet taste to other products. Olives are also recommended for keto diet.
The first product which comes to my mind when I imagine keto diet is avocado. It is probably the king of the keto diet. It is rich in fat and fibre and can add that filling taste to the keto salads. I personally find delicious mixing salt and sweet taste is salads.
Half of avocado has roughly 112 calories, 6 grams of carbs, 5 grams of fibre and 10 grams of fat. Net carbs of avocado are only 1 gram per half of the fruit!
Did you know that avocado is a fruit not a vegetable? And strawberry is also considered a fruit rather than a berry.
The golden rule of keto diet – eat fruit as a treat with moderation. Fruits which can take you out of ketosis are bananas, watermelon, peaches, apples, grapes, cherries. These fruits need to be avoided during keto diet.
Keto-friendly berries (net carbs per one cup serving):
- Blackberries – 6 grams of net carbs
- Raspberries – 7 grams of net carbs
- Strawberries – 8 grams of net carbs
- Blueberries – 17 grams of net carbs
Blueberries need to be taken in moderation during keto diet as they contain double amount of net carbs compared with other fruit and berries.
Fruits and berries can add that naturally sweet taste to your overnight keto oats.
I also recommend low carb strawberry jam which can be purchased online. Pay attention that it doesn’t have added sugar.