Carbohydrate
What it is
Carbohydrate is a group of nutrients that includes sugars, starches and other carbohydrates. Foods can contain these in very different proportions.
Why BOTIA flags it
The carbohydrate figure on a nutrition label does not always mean exactly the same thing in every market. BOTIA keeps the declared value separate from the regulatory definition that applies to that label and from any evidence used to give it context.
BOTIA CAN
- Read the carbohydrate value declared on the nutrition label and preserve its unit and basis.
- Show separately declared related values such as sugars, starch, fibre or polyols when they appear on the label.
- Connect the declared value with the applicable regulatory information and documented evidence.
BOTIA CANNOT
- Determine how much of the carbohydrate is sugar, starch, fibre or another component when the label does not declare those values separately.
- Assume that carbohydrate figures from different markets are directly comparable without checking the applicable definition.
- Treat an undeclared carbohydrate value as zero.