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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 445011" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries etc are OK, just be a little cautious and test. In general though, as a rough guide, northern european fruits including apples, pears and plums are OK. Southern european fruits, including oranges and grapes will be more difficult for you and tropical fruits such as pineapples and bananas are high in sugars.</p><p></p><p>Carbs is a meaningless term really because there are so many types. A tree is packed with carbohydrates but even if you ate a whole one, it wouldn't affect your BG levels. The carbs are cellulose based and we can't digest it, unlike a cow, which can. People do eat bread made from tree bark but it is mostly a famine food. It fills the belly but provides virtually no nutrition. Straw and hay too are full of cellulose, but we haven't eaten that sort of stuff since we used to live in trees and eat leaves and our appendix is much smaller than it used to be. The carbs that we do digest are many, monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides. Oligosacchradides, found in pulses, are strictly speaking not digested by enzymes but are broken down in the intestine by bacteria, hence they give you flatulence. They are low GI foods though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 445011, member: 55568"] Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries etc are OK, just be a little cautious and test. In general though, as a rough guide, northern european fruits including apples, pears and plums are OK. Southern european fruits, including oranges and grapes will be more difficult for you and tropical fruits such as pineapples and bananas are high in sugars. Carbs is a meaningless term really because there are so many types. A tree is packed with carbohydrates but even if you ate a whole one, it wouldn't affect your BG levels. The carbs are cellulose based and we can't digest it, unlike a cow, which can. People do eat bread made from tree bark but it is mostly a famine food. It fills the belly but provides virtually no nutrition. Straw and hay too are full of cellulose, but we haven't eaten that sort of stuff since we used to live in trees and eat leaves and our appendix is much smaller than it used to be. The carbs that we do digest are many, monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides. Oligosacchradides, found in pulses, are strictly speaking not digested by enzymes but are broken down in the intestine by bacteria, hence they give you flatulence. They are low GI foods though. [/QUOTE]
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