The myth says carbs make you fat. The trouble with the myth is that it treats a category like a quantity. Carbohydrate is not a food, it is a chemical classification, and it covers lentils, oats, apples, white bread, and soda without telling them apart. Your body tells them apart. A cup of black beans and a can of soda land in roughly the same carbohydrate range, near 40 grams, and produce very different responses, because one arrives wrapped in fiber, water, and cell structure that slows digestion, and the other arrives with none of it. That wrapping has a name, the food matrix, and it does most of the work the label never mentions. Here is the frame worth keeping: stop asking how many carbs, start asking what they came packaged in. Go deeper at dietdiscipline.com/health-insights/carbs-arent-the-enemy-your-body-runs-on-them.
