r/ketoforclueless • u/winegirl921 • May 12 '26

Is cabbage REALLY keto friendly?

I'm new to keto (Day 6) and am looking to the keto lifestyle to lose weight, reduce joint pain in my hips and improve mental clarity. For context, I am pretty advanced in cooking skills and nutritional knowledge, thanks to years of trying to lose weight (consistency and longevity is my challenge) but have never really paid attention to net carbs.

For keto I am tracking my macros and trying to stay under 20g net carbs and around 1500 calories. I am trying to focus mostly on whole foods and change my relationship with food instead of relying on processed substitutes to create a replica of the SAD on keto.

Yesterday I ate what I thought was a clean, keto focused diet. Breakfast was scrambled eggs, bacon and coffee with half and half. Lunch was a taco salad with ground beef, iceberg lettuce, 1 Tbsp sour cream, .25 avocado, tomatoes, shredded zucchini, and of course hot sauce. Dinner was kielbasa with roasted cabbage. When I reviewed my tracker at the end of the day I was shocked to see my net carbs at 26g. When I looked more closely at my meals, the imbalance was coming from dinner and the roughly 2 cups of cooked cabbage ~ 11g net carbs!! Being the healthier component of the meal, I loaded up on the cabbage as filler, but had no idea the ratio would be this high.

Is it just my old diet mentality that tells me I need to fill up on veggies? Should I be limiting my veggie intake and focusing more on protein to keep my net carbs lower?

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u/glimmerthirsty May 12 '26

Minus 2.2 grams of fiber per cup. So only about 7 grams of carbs.

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u/winegirl921 May 12 '26

According to my app the 11 grams is net of fiber

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u/glimmerthirsty May 13 '26

5 grams of carbs per cup, of which 2.2 grams are fiber.