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kareeta

kareeta

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
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Being so high I can barely open my eyes :(
Hi everyone

I am officially low carbing as of monday and I'm feeling so much better with the stable levels, my question is regarding differnt fruits. Last night I had what I thought was a fairly low carb fruit salad consisting of:

5 red grapes
1 tspn pomegrante seeds
4 strawbs
3 blackberries
1 tspn greek yoghurt

but i woke up at 11.0 instead of the 7's of the previous morning, I guess this could be a coincidence, could anyone please confirm the above fruits are ok?

Ta
Karen
 
I'm no expert but they do tell you to avoid fruit during the initial low carb stages. If you do have fruit you should really have it after a meal with protein in it because the fructose can play havoc with BS levels. The protein in the meal slows down the absorption of the fructose. I don't reccommend it as a snack before bed either.
I can reccommend the Collins Gem Carb Counter book £3.99) which lets you see what different levels of carbs most things have.
However, as I have found trial and error is a wonderful learning tool.
Ken
 
All fruits contain sugar. that's probably where our ancient ancestors got theirs from.
Grapes are about 15% to 20% sugar. Berries are lower. Backberries aroung 5%. In grapes in particular, there is fructoes as well as glucose, which is what makes them so sweet.
Essentially, if something is naturally sweet, it contains natural sugar. You do need to allow for it in your medication. If T2 try"eat to your meter"
 
Hi,
For what it's worth (everyone being different etc), both my Type 1 girls find both grapes and strawberries do horrible things to their BS, even though at one point shortly after the little one was diagnosed, we were told that strawberries were a 'free' food :? !
Sue
 
Thanks everyone for replying

I am Type 1 and did have the fruit after my main meal of chicken salad.

I do have the little carb counter book and everything looked ok in there, I notice out of all the fruit the grapes were the highest - will just cut them out.

May try suger free jelly and squirty cream instead tonight. :)
 
To me, grapes are horrid little bags of sugar and can't be eaten at all unless matured - in a bottle.

I can do some strawberries and a few cherries but not blackberries. Sometimes the carb count and the effects don't seem to coincide too well, your best bet would be to trial different fruits separately and monitor your response to each.
 
Tesco frozen raspberries at 4.9 grams of carb. per 100 grams. Nice with Walls soft scoop light ice cream at 7.5 grams of carb.per 100 grams, add plenty of double cream. A tasty dessert with minimal carbs.

Fenster
 
Fenster said:
Tesco frozen raspberries at 4.9 grams of carb. per 100 grams. Nice with Walls soft scoop light ice cream at 7.5 grams of carb.per 100 grams, add plenty of double cream. A tasty dessert with minimal carbs.

Fenster
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Thanks , will give that a try..going up to Tescos shortly so hopefully they will have both :)
 
Buy toothpicks, raspberry seeds can insert themselves into gaps between your teeth that are significantly smaller than the seeds . . .
 
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