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- Type of diabetes
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For probably about 15 years now I have carefully tended a white grape vine growing on the side of my garage here in South East UK and finally it had started to produced edible fruit. I am even learning how to beat the wildlife to the harvest!!!!
So I am sure you'll understand how sorry I was to think that I'd never eat my own grapes again now that I have been diagnosed T2 and every list has grapes as one of carbiest of fruits. I did sneak a handful the other day while gardening and didn't test for them so I thought I'd do it all properly and set up an experiment
So today I had an otherwise very low carb lunch of cheese, olives and finished with just 30g of my home grown grapes and 1 single bought grape as a taste comparison. Mine were much sweeter and tastier and were seeded, although I didn't eat the seeds.
First bite test was 6.7 (had just done an hours moderate exercise class)
2 hours later was 6.4 !!!!!
Not all what I expected, so what is going on here? Is there something in the few seconds and few yards between picking and eating, or are the commercial grapes pumped full of stuff and get carbier the further they travel perhaps?
I attach a picture showing 26g of my grapes and 50g of commercial, the latter are fewer in number but I am assuming these are the sort used for measuring carbs on sites like diet doctor that give 16g carbs per 100g
Suppose what I am asking is how to know when to believe a carb will raise my bg and when it won't. Are some carbs worse than others?
Would I get the same results another day?
I am so confused
So I am sure you'll understand how sorry I was to think that I'd never eat my own grapes again now that I have been diagnosed T2 and every list has grapes as one of carbiest of fruits. I did sneak a handful the other day while gardening and didn't test for them so I thought I'd do it all properly and set up an experiment
So today I had an otherwise very low carb lunch of cheese, olives and finished with just 30g of my home grown grapes and 1 single bought grape as a taste comparison. Mine were much sweeter and tastier and were seeded, although I didn't eat the seeds.
First bite test was 6.7 (had just done an hours moderate exercise class)
2 hours later was 6.4 !!!!!
Not all what I expected, so what is going on here? Is there something in the few seconds and few yards between picking and eating, or are the commercial grapes pumped full of stuff and get carbier the further they travel perhaps?
I attach a picture showing 26g of my grapes and 50g of commercial, the latter are fewer in number but I am assuming these are the sort used for measuring carbs on sites like diet doctor that give 16g carbs per 100g
Suppose what I am asking is how to know when to believe a carb will raise my bg and when it won't. Are some carbs worse than others?
Would I get the same results another day?
I am so confused