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The Daily Mail recently published an article about reducing calories and carbs by cooking potatoes, pasta, rice etc the day before, refridgerating and then reheating the next day (or eating cold). It stated that you could reduce up to 1/2 the carb intake as the starches are turned to indigestible starch.
I decided to try it out. I would normally have 200g of basmati rice with a meal with 8 units of Humalog. Two hours later my reading would be 160 mg/dl (in France, 8.9 mmol). However, after cooking the rice the evening before, cooling quickly and putting in the fridge overnight it was then reheated and served with homemade sweet and sour sauce and my reading was only 126 mg/dl (7 mmol). So, the same meal (with the same reading pre-mealtime each day) resulted in a far lower reading with the precooked rice.
I then tried the same approach with potatoes. I keep a daily food diary which records my BG readings, insulin taken and meals eaten so it was easy to replicate menus and I was surprised to see the same result.
You can read the article by clicking here so you can make your own minds up.
I decided to try it out. I would normally have 200g of basmati rice with a meal with 8 units of Humalog. Two hours later my reading would be 160 mg/dl (in France, 8.9 mmol). However, after cooking the rice the evening before, cooling quickly and putting in the fridge overnight it was then reheated and served with homemade sweet and sour sauce and my reading was only 126 mg/dl (7 mmol). So, the same meal (with the same reading pre-mealtime each day) resulted in a far lower reading with the precooked rice.
I then tried the same approach with potatoes. I keep a daily food diary which records my BG readings, insulin taken and meals eaten so it was easy to replicate menus and I was surprised to see the same result.
You can read the article by clicking here so you can make your own minds up.