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Default carbs for prickly pear leaves??

On 05/10/2013 06:33 PM, Todd wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There are great references for the carbs of Pricky
> Pear fruit
>
> http://www.carb-counter.net/fruit/1159
>
> but I can not find anything on the pads? (It may be a mute
> point as they have a marked hypo effect and may be
> a free food.) Anyone know of a reference for the carbs of
> the pads?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T


This is the best I could find:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108109/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...erph-08-01287/

On the second link, it says a 100g sample, but in the
table it has varying weights of the pads. I don't
understand. :'(

-T