Here is the list of most common bad carbohydrates to avoid (I excluded most of these products from my diet with rare exceptions):
-any sugar and sugar substitutes, honey, molasses, candies, sodas, most commercial juices, corn syrup, most desserts like pies, cakes, cookies, pastries
- sugar alcohols such as maltitol, sorbitol
-refined grains and refined grain products (see a separate section), any product made from refined or white wheat, white rice, including but not limited to bread, pasta, cookies, crackers, cereal, pancakes, waffles
- oats instant, steel cut oats are better
-corn processed and related products like tortilla chips, wraps, tacos, corn bread etc.
-refined legumes
- sweet or starchy vegetables like potatoes, parsnips, winter squash, cooked beets and cooked carrots, cooked tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, prepackaged vegetables with sugars or flour
- dairy products like whole milk milk, sweetened yogurts or any dairy products with added sugars
-breading from breaded meat or fish, tempura breading
-sweet sauces (most sauces with rare exceptions have added sugars, read the labels)
-processed food (see separate section)
-sweet salad dressings (read labels), many restaurant salads have significant amount of added sugars
- most alcoholic mixers have added sugars
P.S. Sugar names on labels: barley malt syrup, beet sugar, brown rice syrup, brown sugar, cane crystals, cane juice crystals, cane sugar, sucrose, coconut sugar, coconut palm sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, dehydrated corn juice, dextrin, dextrose, evaporated cane juice, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, maltodextrin, malt syrup, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, palm sugar, raw sugar, rice syrup, rice syrup, saccharose, sorghum, sorghum syrup, treacle, turbinado sugar, xylose.