GOOD CARBS NOT LOW CARBS

THE CARBS TO CHOOSE

Fresh fruit

Vegetables (but go easy on potato) Legumes

Minimally processed whole grains such as traditional rolled oats, barley, quinoa, cracked wheat (burghul), buckwheat and lower GI varieties of brown rice

Dense wholegrain breads Wholemeal or wholegrain pasta Unsweetened dairy foods such as milk and natural yoghurt and unsweetened soy milk

THE CARBS TO AVOID OR LIMIT

Snack foods such as biscuits, cakes, lollies, chocolate, chips and popcorn

Sweetened dairy foods including flavoured milks, flavoured yoghurt and ice-cream

Refined grains including white bread, puffed and flaked breakfast cereals, and white rice

Sugar-containing drinks including soft drinks, cordials and energy drinks Fruit juices

Added sugars including table sugar, glucose, honey, maple syrup, rice syrup and agave nectar