This is amazing news for anyone who enjoyed wheat/durum pasta before a diagnosis said avoid "GPS" ie grain, potato, sugar for the rest of your life.
Hats off and a loud cheer to Aldi for putting something on the shelf that is good for diabetics and 2/3 the price of an almost identical Tesco product (the Yutaka variant, H&B sell an even more sportingly priced Explore brand).
I have a dream. One day there will be food price parity for diabetics, however for now we remain a legally exploitable minority by the large multiple grocers.
You shouldn't feel happy that 10% of our numbers as a proportion of UK residents who are coeliac get acres of "free from" gluten reduced shelf/freezer space in the supermarkets while the four million uk diabetics play "guess the safe food" or "30 mins shopping becomes two hours of label scrutiny" in the average supermarket as we struggle to find diabetic healthy food.
But astonishingly most of the biggest grocery retailers (Tesco/ Asda/ Morrison/ Sainsbury take a bow in the hall of infamy) don't yet get that there's a big market here who would appreciate diabetic safe/friendly, clearly labelled competitively priced food. Do prod your local branch management / facebook group if you're inclined. Or, sit back meekly and let them ignore you if that's your style.
Meanwhile the low carb alternative veg pasta market stands:
- Explore H&B £3.30/200g - cooked carb content 6.6g / 100g
- Yutaka Tesco £2.99/200g - cooked carb content 7.3g / 100g
- Organic Aldi £2.00/200g - cooked carb content 5.9g / 100g
You won't find any of these figures on their labels, they don't seem to be ***** to actually cook it and weigh before/after. I have however, several times for each. The averages are as above.
Egg noodles are 35.9g / 100g cooked back in the pre-diagnosed world.