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Do you dose for quinoa

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Gee18

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hi all. I'm new to the forum - been reading topics for a couple of months but never asked a question before! it's a great site full of info and I've found it a good support tool to know you are not alone!

my question is do you take insulin for quinoa? i eat quite a lot of lentils, kidney beans, nuts and seeds as my nurse has said you don't need to dose for these but I've never had quinoa before and want to try it tonight but I'm not sure whether it falls into the bracket of lentils (so slow release that no need to dose) or is it more like rice and pasta. If anyone has tried it and has any advice it would be appreciated!

thank you.
 
I have just done the DAFNE course and have the app on my phone .for quinoa for every 100g you will need 6.5 cp or if you are on a 1:1ratio 6.5 units of quick acting insulin


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Of course. It.s a carb. DAFNE is just wrong on this point. You need to dose for all carbs. Beans, lentils etc. You will need to jab for quinoa. It is slow release - it raises my BG at about the 3 to 4 hour mark. To be honest, I like it but I can't be bothered with it. It's one of the foods I have to split dose for - and I don't like it that much!

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A carb is a carb is a carb! Doesn't matter whether it's in a potato, a rice kernel, a wheat kernel, a peanut or a kidney bean. It all has a positive affect on BGs. To suggest otherwise doesn't fill me with confidence on your DSN's competency!
 

Holy ****?! I only seem to hear bad things about diabetic nurses, you don't need to dose for legumes?!??!???!!?

I eat lentils everyday they are really good as they only spike my blood sugars by half a mmol but you seriously need to take insulin with them.
 
That's crazy, lentils are packed full of carbs! Quinoa has carbs too, granted less than wheat or rice. I usually eat 80g of Quinoa for breakfast which is about 25g carbs.
 
I eat lentils everyday they are really good as they only spike my blood sugars by half a mmol but you seriously need to take insulin with them.
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I'd really love to hear your "reasoning" for this: if a meal makes your BG go up by zero point five mmol/l (e.g. Your BG two hours after eating might be 5-5.5 mmol/l) then how do you "seriously Need to take insulin"? Your postprandial BG is well below any target (<7.8 mmol/l) so unless you are saying that these targets are wrong (without any evidence, because you have other ways of knowing) you just contradicted yourself.

The point here is that, basically, what you do is this: Eat food, take insulin for it and check BG two hours later - if BG is within range, then your insulin dose was correct. If the blood sugar increase is negligible (your meter isn't accurate enough to tell if the 0.5 increase is a true increase or just a statistical fluke) then you would conclude that the insulin you took (none in this case) is the right amount.
 
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The rise in blood sugars of 0.5 mmol is WITH insulin, the serving of lentils I have has about 30 to 50 carbs depending on how hungry I am and the spike is so gradual that sometimes my blood sugar can drop if I take my insulin with it too early. If I weren't to take insulin with my meal then obviously I would have high levels later on. I trust you haven't had lentils that often or read my post properly, I'd suggest you try them instead of getting upset at me for sharing my experiences.
 
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