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EricD

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To help me understand more could someone please explain why carbs raise BG.

What I do not understand is bread has high carbs and raises BG. I make my own bread and on the packet it states:

Per 100g
Carbohydrates 69.9g
of which sugars 1.3g
of which starch 68.6g

It's almost the same for wholewheat with sugar at 1.4g.

1.3/1.4 sugar isn't much really or is it?

If it's not the sugar that raises the BG what does?

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi EricD,

Digestion (and even just your saliva) will quickly break down the starch in the bread into it's constituent sugars.

Resulting in a big old BG.

Regards,
timo.
 
EricD said:
If it's not the sugar that raises the BG what does?
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All carbohydrates, not just sugar.

Sugar on those food lables refers to monosaccharides and disaccharides.

Larger carbohydrates (more than two monosaccharides joined together) just take longer for your body to break down into sugar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate
 
Hi Eric D
I wrote a piece on this Carbohydrates 101&102. It explains the chemistry simply and adds some information on dietary significance.
 
Thanks for the replies and the links everyone, I'll go do some reading in the hope that it'll put an end to my confusion.

I wished I'd taken more interest in it when my Doc told me that I could be diabetic after my pancretectomy.
 
Glucose is a simplified form of carbohydrate.
Complex carbs, which make up noodles, oats, and your homemade bread, are just large amounts of glucose molecules combined into one larger and more complicated molecule.
When you eat your bread, your body breaks the complex carbs down into the billions of simple carb molecules it's made of, and all of that newly broken down sugar goes straight into your blood.

The actual amount of sugar that goes into making the bread doesn't matter, since it all becomes sugar in the digestive process.
 
Well, I understand now a whole lot better then I did before about carbs thanks to everyone.

I did a test yesterday by eating a couple of slices of bread more then I usually do and also ate some rice with my lunch. My BS before supper was 5.1, had two slices of bread with ham and checked again 2 hrs later. I was certain that it would be over 10mmol but it was only 6.7mmol, only risen by 1.6mmol. This is good, isn't it?

Maybe I should do a test with some dougnuts next time. :lol:
 
I've noticed that when I eat noodles they cause big bg spikes very quickly, could go from 5.2 upto around 13 in under 15 minutes then return to near normal levels well inside the 2 hour mark, it just depends how quickly they work on you.
 
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