What elements in green leafy vegetables provide carbohydrates? If you boil some greens and drink the liquid only, will that give you a lot of carbohydrate energy or none to little i.e. do you actually need to eat the solid or how much energy can you get from the liquid alone?
If it comes from the solid, is most of the carbohydrate it in the stalk or leaf?


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According to Nutrition Data, using spinach as a sample green leafy vegetable, a 30 gram serving of spinach contains only about 1 gram of carbohydrates, and that is dietary fiber.

So the simple answer is that there isn't much energy there at all, in the leaf or stem, or to be leached into the cooking liquid.