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Ideally you should eat nothing during basal testing and that includes milk in drinks. But that depends on willpower. Eating low carb or even zero carb food is going to cause some effect on blood sugar and that is going to skew the results. On the tea drinking thing, if you do have the sane amount every day at the same time and never bolus for it then I guess you can include that in your basal without too much trouble. It all depends how accurate you need your basal to be. If you always eat the same things every day then in theory you could just keep doing that during a "basal test" and never take any bolus doses - as an extreme example.
Personally I eat nothing during a basal test and drink only water, but I don't find that hard. Not being addicted to caffeine helps! But if someone can't fast, I'm sure it's better that they do a basal test but eat food with no carbs, than if they didn't do a basal test at all.
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Personally I eat nothing during a basal test and drink only water, but I don't find that hard. Not being addicted to caffeine helps! But if someone can't fast, I'm sure it's better that they do a basal test but eat food with no carbs, than if they didn't do a basal test at all.
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