What it is
Carbohydrates are the starches, sugars and fibre in food. The figure here is total carbohydrate in grams per 100 g. Rice, other grains, flours, legumes and starchy vegetables are high in carbohydrates, and so is fruit. This page ranks foods by how many grams of carbohydrate $1 buys, using Brisbane prices. It is a price comparison, not a recommendation.
What foods are high in carbohydrates?
Per 100 g, the highest values are in white rice, basmati rice and pearl barley. By food group, Grains and starches has the highest average, at 74.8 g per 100 g.
- Per 100 g80 gWhite rice
- Per 100 g80 gBasmati rice
- Per 100 g77.7 gPearl barley
Highest per 100 g of the 155 foods on this site.
Carbohydrates per dollar
Each food's carbohydrates per kg is divided by its price per kg in your location, so the list shows how much carbohydrates $1 buys. For the bone-in cuts marked with *, I first multiply by the share that is meat. Foods with no price for your location are left out.
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Checking prices.
Approximate. Adjusted for the share of the cut that is meat rather than bone. See how I estimate this.
Notes and limits
1 of the 155 foods on this site have no carbohydrates value in USDA FoodData Central, so they are left out of these lists. Values are per 100 g of each food as described in its USDA entry, such as raw or dry.