Vitamin Water?

[marypups 111]

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

[OneDollarBill 371]

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