Table 1.

Classification of diets based on carbohydrate content (modified from Liebman, 2014 [26]).

Carbohydrate Diet Classification	Amount of Carbohydrate	Example of Dietary Pattern
Typical/high-carbohydrate diets	45%–65% of total calories	Low-fat diet, STOP/Traffic light diet, Standard-protein diet, lower-GI diet
Moderately restricted carbohydrate diets	26%–44% of total calories	Intermittent fasting diet, increased-protein diet
Low-carbohydrate diets	51–130 g/day (or approximately 16%–26% of calories of a 2000 calorie diet)	Low-carbohydrate diet, Paleo style diet
Very low-carbohydrate diets [27,28,29]	Typically 20–50 g/day or 5%–15% of total calories	Very low-carbohydrate diet, very low-energy diet, Atkins diet