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Kerrylou78

Kerrylou78

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi, was just wondering what fruit you eat as a type 2? Iv been told from none to 5 pieces a day but very confused! X
 
Personally I don't eat any as I think they are full of sugars! Apparently those who do eat fruit, eat berries...to which they sometimes add cream. I like the cream bit but not the berries :)
 
I am type2 and regular test my levels to see what spikes me.
I find that I can only eat berries.
Most type 2 will probably say the same.
The worst fruits that spiked my levels are bananas, apples, grapes, pineapple
I can eat a small amount of honeydew melon
 
6-9 raspberries with double cream is about the only fruit I eat maybe once or twice a week as a treat. Stick to nuts and cheese as snacks and pork scratchings of course.
 
Goodness I was eating pretty much all fruit everyday till couple of weeks ago, iv been diabetic for 10 years and didn't even think about the fruit aspect :/ will be sticking to berries from now on lol xx
 
Kerrylou78 said:
Goodness I was eating pretty much all fruit everyday till couple of weeks ago, iv been diabetic for 10 years and didn't even think about the fruit aspect :/ will be sticking to berries from now on lol xx
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you could share a piece of fruit occacionally --- in Denmark we are told no more than 3 small peices of fruit a day and a little handfull of nuts, I too only eat berries , but miss both bananas and apples.... so later I´ll sometimes have smoothies again with only half a banana and som fats in and proteins and greens in ....
 
We used to have a whole plate of fruit, usually a shared banana, some grapes, handful of berries, half a nectarine or what ever was in season ALONG WITH a bowl of muesli and skimmed milk and perhaps some orange juice just for breakfast. I thought we were being so good. My husband must have gone off to work with sky high blood sugars every morning. Now it's bacon and egg and the only fruit is the occasional raspberries with cream.
Yes, fruit is just a big heap of sugar and turning it into a smoothie or juicing it is even worse, because the fibre is broken down and you probably have more actual fruit.
Sally
 
I eat 4 or 5 pieces of fruit a day tend to stick to berries and non tropical fruit you can hold in your hand in apples pears oranges etc hasn't made any difference to my bs levels but i guess everyone's different
 
I don't eat any fruit. Even strawberries in small amounts spikes me too high. There are no vitamins, minerals, or fiber amounts in fruit that cannot be gotten from lower carb veggies. Often in higher amounts.
 
It isn't all bad news! :D

If i ate an apple or a banana on its own, i would definitely see an unwelcome spike.

But i can eat an entire 300g of cherries in a day (and yes, i do this at least once every summer, because i am kind of helpless against fresh, seasonal, perfectly perfect mid season cherries). The trick is to drip feed the fruit sugar. A cherry every 15 mins, and i don't get a rise at all.

Other tricks are to have fruit in small quantities after a meal. The protein, fat and fibre in the meal can slow the fruit sugar absorption, and minimise the spike.

People have berries with cream for the same reason.

Also, we all vary in our reactions. Self testing will show how fruit affects you personally, and then you can tailor your choices to portions and types of fruit that suit you. But if you do this, please remember that fruit contains very rapidly digested sugars. Don't eat fruit on an empty stomach and expect to get a rise at 2 hours. Fruit is much faster than that. You are more likely to get a fruit-spike at 45 mins or an hour. It is entirely up to you how high a spike you will accept. Personally, i try to keep under 7.5mmol/l at all times. Some people are happy with higher, some aim lower.
 
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