To take advantage of cinnamonÃ¢s potential benefits, incorporate it into more meals. 1  One of the things I love about this spice is how versatile it is. I use it in both sweet and savory dishes, and I feel like IÃ¢m always finding new ways to add it to meals, snacks, and beverages. Here are 10 easy ideas: 1  Sprinkle cinnamon into your coffee, or add it to your coffee grounds before brewing. 2  Add a dash or two of cinnamon to hot oatmeal, overnight oats, or cold whole grain cereal. 3  Fold cinnamon into yogurt, along with cooked, chilled quinoa, fresh cut fruit, and nuts or seeds.
One large apple contains 130 calories and 34 g of carbohydrates, including 5 g of dietary fiber and 25 g of sugars. Apples have more carbohydrates and sugar than most other fruits. Other fruits with similar amounts of sugar include watermelons and grapes, with 20 g per serving, and bananas, with 19 g per serving.
However, an apple also has 4 grams of dietary fiber, which makes up 17 percent of your required daily intake. Plug that into the above equation, and you find that an apple has around 21 net carbs. A slice of white bread, on the other hand, has less than 1 gram of fiber, so you're not getting the same kind of nutrition out of it.