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DONTHEPEN

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I love my fruit but for breakfast i am having a bowl of oats 25g a medium size apple chopped and about 10/15 blue berry’s is this ok or will this cause a spike
I would normally eat 5/6 fruits a day tangerine pears grapes
 
The only way you can know how your body reacts it to test. I know for me I would have a horrendous spike after eating that lot.
 
Most fruits contain loads of sugar, over the years they have been developed to be extra sweet, because many people like them that way. It's sugar that diabetics can't handle.
After years of making sure that we had "five a day", I learnt (on my husband's diagnosis) that my diligence was slowly killing him. We don't eat fruit apart from a very few berries, once in a while, and we are now both remarkably healthy.
Sally
 
I used to have breakfast like that but since dx I've been told both by my diabetic nurse and my nutritionist to stick to a max of 2 fruits a day. I've actually kept closer to 1 portion every day or two - strawberries or raspberries. As others have said, you can only find out for yourself by testing before and 2 hours after eating, as we all react differently to the sugar/carbs in our food.
 
DONTHEPEN said:
I love my fruit but for breakfast i am having a bowl of oats 25g a medium size apple chopped and about 10/15 blue berry’s is this ok or will this cause a spike
I would normally eat 5/6 fruits a day tangerine pears grapes
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More information about yourself would be helpful. What type of diabetes do you have, and which diabetes medications are you on?
 
Agree with all of the above and also wonder about your oats. I used to love my porridge every morning but can't eat it now because it spikes my blood glucose levels, ditto for oatcakes This is particularly hard for me being Scottish and having been brought up to eat both as part of my daily diet. I have eggs for my breakfast, either scrambled or boiled and chopped with butter and a little salt, they keep me going till lunch time and beyond and don't alter my BG reading at all, perhaps you might consider changing what you eat for breakfast? Good luck!
 
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DONTHEPEN said:
I love my fruit but for breakfast i am having a bowl of oats 25g a medium size apple chopped and about 10/15 blue berry’s is this ok or will this cause a spike
I would normally eat 5/6 fruits a day tangerine pears grapes
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I have the same 40g oats, 10g oat bran, milk, blueberries (no apple). I have a spike yes but my insulin brings it under control. Couldn’t live without my porridge. Spikes are ok!
 
I wasn't going to add anymore to this but I have 45g oats made with unsweetened almond milk and add 60g raspberries for breakfast every morning, I love my porridge but that's probably with me being a Scot lol, my levels seem to cope well with this, however others are different, nobody can tell you yes or no and the only way to be sure is to test before and 2 hours after, even I you don't like the results there are ways to try and make it work for you, try a smaller portion, add fat to it etc and as @mountaintom has said spikes are a way of life for us you just have to try and limit them :) x
 
Resurgam said:
Type ones and twos seem to have a very different regime to follow.
As a type two I am always trying to prevent highs, whilst for type ones the lows seem far more serious -even life threatening.
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I'm not sure it's that though, I think the type 1's try to prevent highs too (just as dangerous for them and more so in many ways re long term damage) but are more able to combat them with their insulin?
 
DONTHEPEN said:
I love my fruit but for breakfast i am having a bowl of oats 25g a medium size apple chopped and about 10/15 blue berry’s is this ok or will this cause a spike
I would normally eat 5/6 fruits a day tangerine pears grapes
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Oh my goodness. If you are T2D your breakfast isn't ideal for keeping your blood sugar down, I know it would make mine shoot up. The only accurate way to find out about how diet impacts your BS is to test before and about two hours after a meal. Oats for me are a no-no, but some T2s can tolerate them. I go for bacon and eggs or omlettes in various forms and on occasion kippers.
Fruits and berries vary considerably in their carb content. Ten or fifteen blueberries would be more than I could handle in one meal. The table below gives a reasonably accurate guide to the relative carbohydrate content of some berries and fruits. The scale is gms carbs/100gms of fruit/berries.
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