Fruit

[supergrass3]

Morning all,

I have a question with regard to fruit; its simple really I eat quite a bit of it as its fat free and generally pretty good for you (so I'm told). Anyway how much insulin should I be taking when I eat fruit? I'm a Type 1 diabetic and if you are thinking I should already know this; you're right I should but my memory is similar to a rather large siv and I often forget stuff seconds after I'm told!

Any advice would be greatfully received.

Cheers

 

[noblehead]

You have to look up the carb content of the fruit and weigh your portion size to work out the carb value, so say you ate a banana which had 20g of carbs and your insulin/carb ratio at lunch was 1 unit of insulin to 10g of carbs you would then inject 2 units to cover the fruit.

Nigel

 

[Snodger]

Here are some other carb values for fruit taken from my carbs and cal app:
medium apple - 10 to 15g
fresh apricot - 4g
blueberries - about 5g per 20 berries
cherries - about 1g a cherry
clementine sized orange - about 5g
grapes - about 1g a grape
kiwi fruit - 5g
nectarine or peach - 10 to 15g depends on size
medium orange - about 7-10g
large conference pear - 20g
large comice pear - 30g
plum - 10g
raspberries - only about 5g per (v large) handful
strawberries - just under 1g per strawb