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Free’ist Marshmallows?

Toadnbunny

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Ok since making a mistake with carbs / Keto and gluten free bread I am double checking everything!

So have these marshmallows - Free’ist. The day sugar free, made from sweetened, gelatine, some maize starch.

Per 100g = 80g carbohydrate but less than 0.5g of which sugars. UK based.

So... no good for Keto? The whole pack is 75g and I’m unlikely to eat more than 1/4 pack... so???
 
Toadnbunny said:
So... no good for Keto? The whole pack is 75g and I’m unlikely to eat more than 1/4 pack... so???
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No, no good for keto, they still have carbs and a large percentage of carbs at that
You need to pay attention to the carb content not the sugar content.
A quarter of that bag would still be 15g carbs which given its a snack leaves very little carbs for the rest of the day
 
I’d bin it and have a spoon full of pure peanut butter instead. But that’s just me...
 
Hang on a minute before you ditch them. It says 80 gr carbs, of which sugar <0,5 gr, of which polyols 76 gr. Which leaves you with only 4 gr of 'regular' carbs.
I don't have experience with polyols but I think this is the stuff not affecting bg in many people so you might be actually fine with those marshmellows!
 
For every 100g of product, they are 80g of carbs.
So for a 20g portion of product, they are 16g carbs.

However, since they are made of sweeteners, not sugar, and different ppl have different responses to different sweeteners, whether those responses are blood glucose rising, or insulin response, or even gut/mood/sleep disturbances, then really, you need to either bin them, or do some testing. You can use a meter to see if you tolerate them.

My opinion? If I were going to have something sweet with a few carbs in it, then marshmallows, especially artificially sweetened ones, would be way down on my list (along with licorice and second hand toenail clippings ). But each to their own.

If you want 'em, try 'em, and see what your glucometer and ketone meters say.
One marshmallow probably has, what, 2g of those sweeteners? Hardly the end of the world.
 

In theory they may not impact your blood sugars, but for me the red flag is malitol - serious laxative qualities!

I do spike with that type of sweetener - and also find the products too sweet. Others don’t so I’d test and see - but stay close to the loo!
 

Yes that’s what I had thought too but made a similar mistake with gluten free bread so completely don’t trust myself now!

I think testing might be the only way to know! X
 
Toadnbunny said:
Yes that’s what I had thought too but made a similar mistake with gluten free bread so completely don’t trust myself now!

I think testing might be the only way to know! X
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If you test, be sure to tell us the outcome and how much you enjoyed them!
With the gluten free bread it's a different kind of mistake. Either the package or google would've told you it was full of carbs so you probably made that mistake before you knew what to look for. I guess we all made those kind of mistakes
 
Hotpepper20000 said:
maize starch is also something I would avoid.
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Why? If it only makes for 4 grams of carbs per 100 grams of marshmellows and you eat 25 grams of it (which is rather a lot for something as light-weight as marshmellows) it makes for one gram of total ingested carbs.
So what is the problem with maize starch if it's not the carbs? I use it occasionally and this is the first time I've heard to avoid it in small amounts.
 
Personal experience with testing that anything with maize starch spikes my BG even in small amount. Sometimes it’s not about the carb amount but what the carb is.
 
I've eaten sugar free marshmallows in the past and they've had no impact on my blood glucose levels, however, if you eat more than a handful of them, id make sure you're not too far away from a toilet!
 
prestonmike1 said:
I've eaten sugar free marshmallows in the past and they've had no impact on my blood glucose levels, however, if you eat more than a handful of them, id make sure you're not too far away from a toilet!
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I used to have Sainsbury’s sugar free marshmallows but only a couple at a time.
 
Hotpepper20000 said:
Personal experience with testing that anything with maize starch spikes my BG even in small amount. Sometimes it’s not about the carb amount but what the carb is.
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However we are all individual and have different tolerances. I don’t even look for Maize Starch so not sure what effect they have on me.
 
Daphne917 said:
However we are all individual and have different tolerances. I don’t even look for Maize Starch so not sure what effect they have on me.
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I agree!
That is is why I wrote “I would avoid” and “Personal experience” because we are all different and I was sharing how I react. Testing is the only way to know and that is what makes type 2 so frustrating.
 
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