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PaulAuster

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Do you think the carbs in fruit are equally as harmful as the carbs in whole wheat bread, rice or pasta for our blood sugars?

Do you use fruits in your low carb diet?

I'm thinking about using some apples or oranges in my breakfast. Not more than 30g of fruit carbs a day.

Thank you! :D
 
A carbohydrate is a carbohydrate, is a carbohydrate! There are some [ such as dietary fibre] which are indigestible and others whose monomers, base units, are lesser know monosaccharides like fructose or gallactose. The importance to diabetics is: how much glucose does this carbohydrate produce? In the case of starches, 100% breaks down to glucose. Sucrose [cane/beet sugar] is 50% glucose. Unfortunately, the other 50% is fructose, which is bad for everyone, not just diabetics.
I'm sure you don't want to read a textbook on the structure of sugars. therefore it's safer to regard all digestible carbs as something to minimise. The carb is IN the food it is not a category of foods.
If you really want details, you can llok them up, but in general fruis like apples contain significant amounts of carbs. an average eating apple is about12% carb. Berries are lower Raspberries about 5% carb.
Of course, from there it's the portion size that matters.
What you really need is a reference book, succh as the Collins Little Gem calorie guide. The try a variety of fruits testing before you eat and 1 hour after you started to eat, which will tell you the maximum blood sugar you reached.
Hana
 
The only way is to test, but all berries seem ok, strawberries,, raspberries, blueberries. In fact I buy those frozen bags of red fruit and warm them up with a bit of no sugar syrup from lowcarbmegastore. Lush. Nice on yogurt and with low sugar jelly. I even make a fruit crumble using nuts and almond flour with butter as a topping.
 
PaulAuster said:
Do you think the carbs in fruit are equally as harmful as the carbs in whole wheat bread, rice or pasta for our blood sugars?

Do you use fruits in your low carb diet?

I'm thinking about using some apples or oranges in my breakfast. Not more than 30g of fruit carbs a day.

Thank you! :D
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Hi Paul, funnily enough I've just been checking out fruit in the Collins Gem Carb counter and came across a tip.
Quote " fruits should be eaten after a meal high in protein, not as an in-between meal snack or for breakfast. This is because fructose can play havoc with your blood sugar levels, depending on your sensitivity. By having it as a dessert you are using the protein of the meal to slow down the absorption of the fructose." Unquote.
The last couple of mornings I've had fruit for breakfast and on both days, two hours later my BG was above 10. :(




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It's weird how differently people react.

Strawberries, - one of the lower sugar fruits, send me so high so fast that I'm asleep within half hour of eating them, - after the visual disturbance and palpitations! Whereas sometimes my BG keeps climbing in the morning after a carb free breakfast, ( - up around 12 ) and an apple late morning will bring it down below 6 in less than an hour. I don't know why. I also find that an apple with my morning Metformin makes the side effects far easier to cope with. :)


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