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Eating Soda bread and no spikes?

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markd

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My fasting and PP figures are pretty good these days (low-carb diet, exercise and 2x 250ng Met).

Today, since the weather (unusually for a bank holiday weekend!) was quite fine, we had a picnic style lunch out in the garden.

Bread spiked me pretty badly when I first tested, but I figure I can withstand that very occasionally, so we had some lean chicken and just a tiny amount of several types of cheddar on soda bread (minimal fat, so I don't expect any 'pizza effect') also some pickled onions, celery, drank only orange juice.. Had some chili marmalade on the bread too.

Due to a sudden wasp invasion, we ended up scoffing the food pretty quickly.

According to online sources, I probably ate 80-90g of carbs in the bread and yet here's what happened:

before eating: 4.2
30 mins after : 5.4
60 mins after : 4.6
90 mins after : 4.5
120 mins after : 4.3

I'd not done any exercise, so I'm at a loss to understand why I didn't spike - is soda bread (small local bakery, rather than supermarket fare) substantially lower GI or otherwise better for BG?

Mark.
 
To reah it's highet Bg in 30 minutes, the GI must be quite high. You obviously didn't eat too much of it.
 
Markd.
Did you eat all the bread or just a couple of slices ? Reason I ask is that my 2009 Calorie, Carb and Fat bible shows Soda Bread as 100g weight = 54.6g carbs. Each slice weighs around 28g, very dense.

Rankin Irish Brown Soda Bread 400g shows a carb content 161.2g per loaf !!! The figures just don't seem to add up ??
 
cugila said:
Markd.
Rankin Irish Brown Soda Bread 400g shows a carb content 161.2g per loaf !!! The figures just don't seem to add up ??
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It was an irish brown soda bread, and I ate around two thirds of the loaf - once I got started, it turned into one of the 'yummy can't stop' moments... so you can see why I'm puzzled.

Not that I'm unhappy, mind - just puzzled!

Mark
 
hanadr said:
To reah it's highet Bg in 30 minutes, the GI must be quite high. You obviously didn't eat too much of it.
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But that's why I'm puzzled, since I ate around two thirds of the entire loaf!

Mark.
 
Hi Markd. If you have this again, try testing after 3 hrs. It may well be that it is very slow to be absorbed in the bloodstream ? I couldn't get anything like those numbers after eating that ?

Great for you though if the numbers are all correct. :D
 
cugila said:
Hi Markd. If you have this again, try testing after 3 hrs. It may well be that it is very slow to be absorbed in the bloodstream ? I couldn't get anything like those numbers after eating that ?

Great for you though if the numbers are all correct. :D
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I did do a final test at two and a half hours - and it was 4.2 - couldn't do a three hour test as I was heading out to the pub!

Seems a bit unlikely that it would trend up again that late?

Three pints of real ale later and it is soon time for bed...

Mark.
 
Hi markd.

Let us know what you are doing, apart from drinking at the pub.... :D Those results are almost non-Diabetic ?
 
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