Drinks - Raised Sugar Levels

It doesn't work like that - your liver can raise blood glucose levels to enable you to hunt down breakfast, it has nothing to do with eating or drinking.

 

Hi @MrBear2016
There are lots of things that can affect our levels, stress, poor nights sleep, exercise and something called the dawn phenomenon mentioned by Resurgam . The other thing to bear in mind is the accuracy of the glucose meters +/- 15% for 90% of tests.' so your 2 results of 8.5 and 8.2 are essentially the same

 

I agree with all the other posts there are so many things that can raise our blood sugars , but I will say that only recently I have discovered that if I drink the cheaper supermarket brands sugar free drinks it does raise my blood sugar , I think you'll have to try a little bit of experimenting .

 

The No Added Sugar cordials still have carbs but even allowing for that you are using so little vs the water content that I doubt it amounts to much.

 

Tap water in my district is revolting too. I drink fizzy bottled water and have found different brands differ in taste, but all are nice.

 

Asda sparkling flavoured waters are virtually carb free, although they have doubled in price in recent months.

 

Think ALDI's versions are still pretty cheap?

 

Some of the 'no added sugar' drinks have some real fruit juice in them (I know Robinsons put a little in). As mentioned already though, early morning your liver starts to pump out glucose (and other things) to get you ready for the day ahead. Great for people with working/enough insulin, but not great for diabetics. It all depends on the person I guess.

 

I don’t drink plain water either, I have tea, coffee or water with squash in.

 

I just count the carbs in the milk, as I do any other carbs.

 

I think weak Robinsons should be ok, but out of the no sugar options available here, I noticed lemon is 0.3 carbs per 100ml, orange is 0.6 and apple blackcurrant is 1 point something, or thereabouts. I don't know if it makes a big difference but I go for the no added sugar lemon because of this. (Rather have blackcurrant though...)

 

Is that per 100ml of the concentrate? Or of the made-up drink? If it’s of the made-up drink I could really see how that could mount up quick if you drink a lot! (If it’s of the concentrate then I guess it would be negligible)

 

I wouldn’t know I’ve never tested after drinking tea!

 

Great question: it's the concentrate.

 

A latte has around 20g of carbs. It's not only the milk. Milk has around 5g per 100ml. Maybe there is sugar automatically put in, or something? Most popular lattes have sugar in