Low carb foods for weight loss

Carbohydrate requirement can be different on different diets, and finding low carb foods for low carb diets can be difficult. There are diets advising consuming "good" carbs like in whole grains versus "bad" carbs like in white bread or sugar.

Another group of carbohydrate-regulating diets, such as, for example, the Zone, prescribes very precise combination of carbs/protein/fat. The Zone defines this combination as the 40/30/30 ratio and this is a very liberal carbohydrate allowance comparing with a 'standard' low carb diet permitting 100 carb grams a day or less.

The strictest of all is the ketogenic diet requiring that carb and protein grams combined should be at least 3 to 4 times lower than fat grams. Concrete gram amounts depend on caloric requirements.