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Conrad74

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Just wondering if anyone else has had good results with basmati rice? I have noticed now quite a few times, that when I eat basmati rice, it barely effects my blood sugars. Today for instance, before work my blood sugar was 10.5 and I had a piece of toast containing 15g of carbs. When I went home for lunch 5 hours later my blood sugar was 13.9. I was starving and ate about 140g of carbs of rice with vegetables for lunch. I didn’t take any insulin or anything. I went back to work for another 5 hours and after work my blood sugar reading was 9.5. I know if that would have been pasta or potatoes I could have never handled that much.
 
Do you use insulin @Conrad74 ? Because with those numbers I suggest taking it if you have it...
 
I find everyone's digestion rate different. Also depends on WHEN you eat it.
Experiment more.
The more you wash the starch out, the better.
Some rice is recommended to be rinsed well to avoid starch clumping. Starch=glucose.
Over cooking can exasperate the starch effect.
Perfectly cooked rice can make a huge difference. To everything.
Especially digestion.
 
Conrad74 said:
Just wondering if anyone else has had good results with basmati rice? I have noticed now quite a few times, that when I eat basmati rice, it barely effects my blood sugars. Today for instance, before work my blood sugar was 10.5 and I had a piece of toast containing 15g of carbs. When I went home for lunch 5 hours later my blood sugar was 13.9. I was starving and ate about 140g of carbs of rice with vegetables for lunch. I didn’t take any insulin or anything. I went back to work for another 5 hours and after work my blood sugar reading was 9.5. I know if that would have been pasta or potatoes I could have never handled that much.
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Hi @Conrad74 as @Diakat asked the insulin question should be considered. A reading of 10.5 before eating is considered to be a pretty high one. 5 hours after eating is a long time post eating for a test, it is recommended that it is done 2 hours after the first bite. Clearly this is not always practical, work and things can get in the way. To be 13.9 5 hours afterwards may suggest the peak was considerably higher. For the rice to go to 9.5 after 5 hours could be thought as "good", though it would take a considerable amount of testing to really understand your daily patterns. Late afternoon is often when BG's are at their lowest level, which every level they are on.
Hope the above made sense.
Good luck.
 
Conrad74 said:
Just wondering if anyone else has had good results with basmati rice? I have noticed now quite a few times, that when I eat basmati rice, it barely effects my blood sugars. Today for instance, before work my blood sugar was 10.5 and I had a piece of toast containing 15g of carbs. When I went home for lunch 5 hours later my blood sugar was 13.9. I was starving and ate about 140g of carbs of rice with vegetables for lunch. I didn’t take any insulin or anything. I went back to work for another 5 hours and after work my blood sugar reading was 9.5. I know if that would have been pasta or potatoes I could have never handled that much.
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140g cooked or dry? (around 75g dry rice comes out of the pan around 185g @ around 40g carbs) As a T1 I find 'around' 275g cooked to need 'around' 6u and won't spike much past 8 and the tail is manageable, but if I eat much more I need more insulin to remove the spike, the tail of which will lower me later.

Edit. I didn't realise this was in the T2 section as I saw it on the title page as a new post, so probably just ignore me as I'd imagine rice isn't a good idea for a T2.
 
Conrad74 said:
Just wondering if anyone else has had good results with basmati rice? I have noticed now quite a few times, that when I eat basmati rice, it barely effects my blood sugars.
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Hi Conrad,
Basmati rice is on the verge of low GI which means it takes a little bit longer to break down into sugar coupled with the high fibre from the vegetables slows down the rate of digestion and how quickly the sugar is released into the blood.

But what your seeing is how quickly not how much.

Starch is essentially a long chain of glucose molecules, when digested the chain is broken down into its individual links. That' s still a lot of sugar to deal with.:banghead:
:bag:
 
You really need to address those numbers. If you are on medication/insulin then take it. If you are using diet alone then you have to address this also. You say that if it had been pasta or potatoes then your numbers would be higher (?) How much higher?
 
Normally I would be on insulin. But a week and a half a the endocrinologist said I should stop taking insulin and start Forxiga. I only lasted a week on it. I barely ate anything, drank about 3 liters of water a day, felt extremely nauseous the entire week and my blood sugars kept going up and up. Last time I took it was Monday when my blood sugars got to near 20 on the advice of my family doctor. I have an appointment tomorrow with her to discuss what to do.
 
Hope the doc has some sensible advice.
 
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