Lactose is a type of carbohydrate lah. Not indicated on the labels.

Total carb count already include lactose.

It's not the charcoal. Definitely not it. Charcoal carbon is harmless. It just passes through your gut. Remember that charcoal pills are used to reduce diarrheoa symptomes?

It's the compounds between burned and over-cooked. Those almost-hangus stuff. I forgot the name.
Those are the cancer causing compounds. I did a presentation in my food toxicology class last time, but I totally forgot about it right now.

The cucumber I believe is useless again carcinogens. Better that you exercise (sweating is one of the ways to excrete toxins from the body) and eat loads of fruits+vege to help get rid of these toxins.

Ah! Found. The powah of Google.
It's called Benzopyrene.
You can google it to read more info. However, note that benzopyrene is not the only carcinogen found in overcooked food.

Myremi,
No lah, just that you were not accurate enough.
In any case, food that is blackened would definitely contain some PAC.
Blackened doesn't mean it's charcoal either, they are most probably melanin from Maillard reaction.
[heh heh, I'm trying to revise my knowledge]

1. Exercise. Any exercise at all, at least moderate intensity. I myself prefer lifting weights.

2. Drink milk. Any milk will do, but the normal or full-cream milk is better. Vit D (important for Calcium metabolism) is fat soluble, some fat in the milk helps to carry the vitamin. If you worry about the high calorie --> refer to #1.

3. Eat yogurt. Or cultured drink. Or yogurt drink.

4. Take prebiotic [food for probiotic bacteria e.g. Fructo-oligosaccharides/FOS, inulin, etc] and probiotics. Prebiotics have been scientifically proven to increase bone density and Ca absorption. Prebiotic ingredients are available in fresh fruits and mushrooms.

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Mar 30 2009, 12:06 PM

bunga-daisy,
how about adding a bit of protein and some fibre to you dinner?
1 glass of milk, or an egg, or some tuna, etc
Small bowl of salad with very little flavour, vege, a bit of oats, etc.

Brocolli is one of the best food you can eat.

In case you guys don't know:
Fibre is also considered as carbs. It is a sub-category of carbs. Never pay attention in science class last time meh? =P

There are no easy ways to determine the carb content in food. There's too damn many types of carbs, and it's too expensive for food manufacturers to find out the extremely specific details. So what is normally done is to find out the content of protein, fat, water, minerals, etc. Then the residual portion is automatically classified as carbs (even vitamin C is carb, actually. But it's too important to be classified under the carb category).

Another issue is the calorie printed on labels and nutritional facts.
If the food contains a lot of fibre, it may or may not be 100% accurate (depending on the source and what types of analysis being done). Normally, the whole food is burned to ashes... to find out the TOTAL amount of calorie/energy it contains (including the energy released from fibres). You stomach doesn't digest+absorp every single compound you eat, especially fibres. And you don't use every compound as energy (eg: vitamins).