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The "theory"That sounds like a terrible grilled cheese sandwich.
Oh, and I am pretty sure your bread theory is bogus.
You make a loaf of bread with whole wheat and water. The whole wheat has 14 grams of carbohydrates, but 3 of those are fiber. Since fiber isn't digestible, those three grams are not counted, giving you net carb content of 11 grams. The math is carbs - fiber = net carbs.
What companies started doing was loading a bunch of fiber in products, so in the case of the wheat bread, they would add another 10 grams of fiber to the wheat in the bread mix. Then they use the above formula to say that 13 carbs - 13 grams fiber = 0 net carbs.
The math is correct, but the application is bogus.
In the original calculation, the fiber in wheat was included in the total carb count. Three of those carbs were not digestible, so you were getting 11 net carbs.
In the second calculation, the 3 wheat fiber carbs would still be deducted, but the other 11 crabs are unaffected by dumping a bunch of fiber on top of them, None of them replaced the "real carb" count in the wheat. You're still getting 11, just a bunch of fiber on top of it.
Welcome to USA marketing and capitalism.