bananas

My father in law had a couple of bananas every day most of his adult life - at his funeral they were laughing about it.. my stomach was clenched in frustration, but no way I could make anyone see that there was a connection between bananas and dying of something connected to sugar.

People say that bananas are great, slow release of energy..
no, no - they are big lumps of sugar. Anything that soft and that sweet - how can they be anything else. (and I say that as someone who loved sliced banana on toast in the morning)

As a type 2 (particularly a type 2 on insulin), there is nothing good you will get from a banana. In my opinion - but it's something I feel a little raw about.
The fructose in the banana will do nothing good for you.

It's not often that I 100% agree with advice from DN - but in this case, absolutely ...

I have 2 weetabix and a banana for breakfast everyday. The bananas I get are quite green still so don’t know if that makes any difference.

Yes - essentially the longer the banana ripens - the more sugar there is. (but, the more delicious it is...)
@lovinglife is right to rein me in a little here - enjoying your food is incredibly important. Despite my own feelings - I cannot know what precisely happened to my father in law, and whether it would have been any different if he hadn't had a couple of bananas every day.

But - breakfast is the biggest thing we've all bought into over a couple of generations that's bonkers - I'm no different, I would have said that Weetabix and a banana was a perfectly healthy breakfast a year ago - and I was officially a type 1 diabetic at the time. Now, I just see Weetabix, semi-skimmed milk, banana and orange juice (would have been a typical breakfast for me) - as sugar, sugar and sugar, with a glass of sugar.

Now, as I've done this morning - I have a couple of eggs, bacon and sausage - and I would have been horrified at that a year ago...

Now - I can totally get behind Avocados for breakfast!!

My mum was a type 2. She ate a banana every day. Yet I have never been able too.

I'm afraid that there is no 'us diabetics' - I maintain control by eating a low carb diet so have not eaten a banana for a very long time.

PatsyB said:

Bananas , according to my diabetic Nurse Bananas are not good for us Diabetics I have one every day , I have my breakfast then take the dogs for a brisk walk and always have a banana with me in case levels go down who else eats bananas and think they be alright for us diabetics?

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Do you test before and some two hours after your banana?
This will tell you if a banana works for you on your current medication.

I used to love bananas - on toast, or with porridge or just on its own. Last one was in 2016 just before my T 2 diagnosis.

I could eat 10kg of bananas in one sitting, they are so scrumptious.

Having said that, it must be 3 years since I actually ate a banjana....

My nephrologist told me never eat raw bananas, that stuck in my mind, so I never eat bananas. I don’t miss bananas either.

BigAlan said:

I could eat 10kg of bananas in one sitting, they are so scrumptious.

Having said that, it must be 3 years since I actually ate a banjana...

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Diet change for colonoscopy, I tried one small banana each for last two, my FBG is still under my expectations!

PatsyB said:

Bananas , according to my diabetic Nurse Bananas are not good for us Diabetics I have one every day , I have my breakfast then take the dogs for a brisk walk and always have a banana with me in case levels go down who else eats bananas and think they be alright for us diabetics?

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I do still eat bananas on occasion and yes they do cause mild spikes, so here are tips if you like bananas and want to still have them:

* Don't wait until they're ripe like browning. As soon as they're past being green and skin is yellow, that's the lowest glucose hit you'll see.

* I now make a "dessert" meal from them and somehow this meal barely moves the needle on sugar spikes - I take some 1g keto bread (tested multiple varieties of sliced breads claimed to be keto and found on that truly doesn't spike me) and slice it up into small pieces, put into a bowl and let them soak in some lactaid milk (which is 6g carbs per serving but seems to have a very low glycemic response in me, or at least very short-lived), dash a lot of cinnamon on them then heat them in a pan with a lot of unsalted butter (at least 1 tablespoon if not a little more). Sprinkle in some crushed pecans, stir & flip regularly, and once it has almost has the consistency of bread pudding, I drop in chopped pieces of bananas (from 1 banana) in there. After about 5 minutes mixing this in and letting it all heat, when I put into a bowl I pour a bit of zero-sugar syrup on top. For some reason even though I would expect an even higher spike eating this vs just eating the banana straight, my levels barely go up and it tastes like a banana-flavored dessert. I don't eat something like this more than once a week, just in case.

Check your body's reaction to this if you try! Don't take my word for it. It's just something I noticed at least for me resolved a craving without the glucose impact I would see normally.