I am seven weeks out and I've been drinking a lot of the Vitamin Water zero recently. In fact, I've been feeling good about how much I am drinking in an effort to get in my fluids. Since it had "zero" in the title and says zero calories, I was surprised to notice just now that it has 5 carbs in each bottle. I've been trying to drink at least two a day while at work (40 ozs) but now am not sure I want 10 carbs a day from these things. But my question is how can something have 5 carbs and zero calories? That makes no sense to me. (Although lots of things make no sense to me that are true.)

Mary

The carbs on the label are primarily from erythritol, a sugar alcohol. Erythritol provides just about 0.2 calories per gram of carbohydrate

When a food contains fewer than 5 calories per serving, the manufacturer is allowed to “round down” to 0 on the Nutrition Facts label