Tapioca fiber is an ingredient that is sourced from the tapioca vegetable. Some stuff, like their crackers don’t use the tapioca fiber. ChocZero mainly uses soluble corn fiber in their chocolate. Their crackers don’t use tapioca fiber, so that’s good. You could go on forever. The FDA has provided its final guidance for dietary fiber. We’ll focus on the nutrition label for their Macadamia Sea Salt Grass-Fed Collagen Bars. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication!!! I found these bars online keto bars.com, What’s your opinion on these …your website is awesome thanks for the info Those are FDA-approved terms for synthetic fibers. To further lower your insulin and glucose impacts, I’d recommend eating the pasta with fat like olive oil. And here’s truly the best advice: do what works best for you. Among other recommended products to use are a variety of mushrooms. Lakanto has tapioca fiber, cellulose and acacia gums, but sunflower lecithin. I check my ketone level this morning and it is 0. Plus, it’s built in portion controlled– if you eat 50g of vitamin fiber gummies (the serving size for Smart Sweets), you will definitely feel it (not in a good way!). – Mint Chocolate – Guaranteed Ketogenic We actually did come across this article recently as well. I have spent hundreds of $ on smart sweets because they are so expensive. Across the board, even with the variances in producers and their methods of extraction, they found that IMOs generate an increase in blood glucose levels similar to glucose and dextrose. I will not buy them again. I’m glad you found this information useful and this is exactly why we researched this topic. Primal Kitchen considers prebiotic tapioca fiber the same as isomalto-oligosaccharides from tapioca. That’s why, at the end of the day, we advocate for testing for yourself and listening to your body. So, thanks to Koochikoo–but no, thanks! Even worse, are the product manufacturers that attempt to hide their use of IMO by calling it something else. We treat Cereal School as 1 net carb per serving. Do you know if “tapioca starch” has a high glycemic index- or what its glycemic index is? If you tolerate it well (no bloating, cramping, gas) then I think you’ll be okay. Fast eat 15 equivalent grams of gummy bears check blood levels over same peiod of time…..corn fiber response. As you can see, there is approximately 1g of tapioca fiber per serving (if that). Protein – 6g Based on what we’ve seen, the same thing can’t be said of IMO since the issue is the discrepancy about what is considered true fiber. We tested just the basic Chocolate Brownie flavor and our BG levels never increased past around 20 mmol/L above our initial readings during our testing window. For comparison, in a separate test on another day, we consumed 28g of pure sugar dissolved in water. I made the mistake of buying a bunch of Good Fats bars because Thomas DeLauer, who I respect, recommended them. With the current selection of chocolate chips, that’s definitely a conundrum. Yet, based on our findings, the metabolic effects of tapioca fiber are strikingly similar to sugar. Thanks for your research. Wow!!! As far as acacia fiber goes, we can recommend Anthony’s Acacia Senegal Powder (link: https://amzn.to/2ZYLq0W). This is a very interesting article, as my job sells these candies, and I love them lol. However, if you are simply melting down the chocolate in a double boiler, it should be a low enough temperature to not break down the inulin (oligosaccharides) so we’d recommend Lily’s (since we like the taste better anyway). Okay, this is shocking that the Smart Sweets gave you the same blood glucose results as table sugar (I personally don’t feel a sugar rush from them but admittedly don’t remember what it feels like to be on table sugar) but they still give me uhMAZING poos.