Do fiber calories count?

Let's say you consume alot of insoluble fiber (like Fiber One or Shredded Wheat cereals)...do those calories really count towards your daily calories consumed (hoping that the fiber just "passes" on through!)?

yep, a calorie is a calorie when it comes to counting... count them all!

Well, Fiber, itself, has no calories. It's not digestable to your body.

But the cereal you're eating has other things besides just Fiber in it.  So, the calories in the cereal or whatever still count :)

I have a similar question and was hopping someone would clarify. So i was looking at the package of lentils i bought (Goya), and looking at the calories and everything. the first thing i notice is 70 calories/ .25 cup, great! but then I look closer, the rest of the nutrional info goes something like this.

fat: 0

carbs: 19

fiber: 9

sugar: 0

protein: 8

 

I was like oh good thats lots of fiber. And then it hit me that the numbers just don't add up. If you add up the calories you would get 19 x 4 + 8 x 4 = 108 calories. That certainly isn't 70! So then it hits me that if you take the fiber grams out, it adds up to 72 grams, so that is what they must do. So, do food labels factor in the insolubility of fiber, or is this just something they do in other countries outside America (Goya is spanish I think), or do american companies do this too and i just never noticed? Anyways I was a little perplexed by this and wondering if I should just count it as 70 or really count it as 104.

I was just a little perplexed by this because i have never noticed such a drastic difference, probably because I have never eaten anything with that high amount of fiber. Any thoughts on what I should count it as would be greatly appreciated!

The fiber is counted originally in the 19 grams of carbs. They also list is separately so you can see how many grams of fiber there are relative to the total carbs. So the 19 grams of carbs includes the 9 grams of fiber, sugar and complex carbs.

i've heard several times fiber has no calories. i've heard only once that it has 2 cal/gram

i prefer to believe it has no calories