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Fruit / Juice Cravings

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CeeCee59

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Terrace BC Canada
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
I am trying to be careful about the amount of sugar I ingest - especially things like soft drinks - but now find that I really want something sweet like juices. One thing that seems to work for me is putting a very small amount of juice (say 1/4 cup) in a large glass and topping it up with club soda (no calaroies, no carbs, no sodium). This helps with my former addiction to soft drinks. Thought others may find this hint useful and would welcome any other suggestions people may have. I really don't want to start drinking diet coke because of the aspartame.

Also, any suggestions for fruits that have lower amount of sugars?
 
CeeCee59 said:
I am trying to be careful about the amount of sugar I ingest - especially things like soft drinks - but now find that I really want something sweet like juices. One thing that seems to work for me is putting a very small amount of juice (say 1/4 cup) in a large glass and topping it up with club soda (no calaroies, no carbs, no sodium). This helps with my former addiction to soft drinks. Thought others may find this hint useful and would welcome any other suggestions people may have. I really don't want to start drinking diet coke because of the aspartame.

Also, any suggestions for fruits that have lower amount of sugars?
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I am just like you! So thanks for the tip! :mrgreen:
I too do not like aspartame for the simple reasons that, it tastes disgusting and if I have too much it causes alot of intestinal bleeding :shock:
 
I drink diet drinks with sucralose in. Don't know if they cause the same problems for you but they certainly don't taste as nasty. Sainsbury own brand diet flavoured waters and diet cream soda have it in.
 
Generally the softer fruits such as Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries etc are lower in carbs than the harder fruits such as apples and pears etc. The only sure way is to eat a portion then test to see the effect that portion has on your blood sugar.

Eat the fruit after a meal, this will lessen the effect on your blood sugar, also eating the fruit with cream or creme fraise helps slow down the absorption rate.

I can eat fresh pineapple but many cannot.
 
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