Remember: Carbs turn to the same thing as added sugar before they even hit your stomach.
My current approach is to look at the % daily value for carbs and for fiber whenever I buy bread, cereal, etc. If the carbs are higher than the fiber I buy something else.
There are a few switches that worked out particularly well: Flour -> Corn tortillas, and the Ezekiel brand (or other recipies-from-the-bible-themed varieties from the same company) sprouted whole grain bread at the store.
Stuff marked "low carb" or "keto" often is primarily mode of bizarre ingredients like extracted starch. Worse, they often contain artificial / organic non-caloric sweeteners that are way worse than just eating sugar.
> Carbs turn to the same thing as added sugar before they even hit your stomach
This is not true, you have amylase in your saliva that has a tiny impact on breaking down starches.
While there is a little bit of hydrolysis in the stomach, most of the break down happens in the small intestine for smaller oligosaccharides (pancreatic and small intestine enzymes mostly) and the colon for large ones including most fibers (bacteria are doing it)
My current approach is to look at the % daily value for carbs and for fiber whenever I buy bread, cereal, etc. If the carbs are higher than the fiber I buy something else.
There are a few switches that worked out particularly well: Flour -> Corn tortillas, and the Ezekiel brand (or other recipies-from-the-bible-themed varieties from the same company) sprouted whole grain bread at the store.
Stuff marked "low carb" or "keto" often is primarily mode of bizarre ingredients like extracted starch. Worse, they often contain artificial / organic non-caloric sweeteners that are way worse than just eating sugar.