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Fruits

Lol , the yoghurt and double cream would finish me. As long as you enjoyed it. I'm still chuckling about your pudding.
 
Much the same for breakfast and does not affect my BG
 
I have actually taken a dessert spoon of fruit yoghurt and mixed it with full-fat Greek yoghurt just to give it more of a flavour. This does not affect my BGL. I am not keen on plain Yoghurt, it's a bit sharp for me, even with berries unless I heat the berries up with a little sweetener, as this makes the berries juicy and sweetens the plain Yoghurt
 
Blueberries are the highest carb of all the berries - best avoided.
I have a self imposed limit of 10 percent carbs - they are over that.
The other berries I can eat with cream, in small amounts.
 
If I want to eat slightly higher carb fruit, I'll eat it in smaller quarities, often in conjunction with other, lower carb, varieties - so I might have a small apple with blackberries cooked in butter, or diced in a low carb waldorf salad, and spread these over several days; same with rhubarb and orange. Small quanities of blueberries can also be added to a batch of low carb muffins. All my fruit tends to be eaten with fat of some sort: cream - double, clotted, sour, creme fraiche, full fat yoghurt, cooked with butter, raw with cheese like @derry60's apples, or a tiny fig with goats cheese and prosciutto, etc... With a bit of care I can do this without any spikey glucose levels, and hopefully also keep fructose consumption within pretty low limits now I know to be aware of that too...

Robbity
 

If u can tolerate at least 3O-35g carb, it is a good idea to include fruits that are high in anti oxidants in your meals. Oxidation played a role in the inflammation of the blood vessels lining. Many fruits high in anti oxidants are medium in glycaemic index. Cut down on food from the grain and flour type. Use a digital scale and take around 100g high anti oxidant fruits (for more sugar concentrated fruits like grapes take just 50g) per meal. Just be very careful to keep your total carb intake per meal within your tolerance level. Last but not least, use a glucometer to check your pre meal and two hours post meal readings to be very safe.
 

Carbohydrates are inflammatory. Lower the number of carbs in the diet and this aids the effects. Antioxidants can be found easily enough in other foods such as coffee, no need to seek them primarily from fruit. Fructose goes straight to the liver adding to Fatty Liver which in turn promotes IR.
 
That must be it Robbity. I have Finn Crispbreads just 4, but have it with full-fat butter and full-fat cheese and does not spike me. I am sure that if I were to eat them on their own, I may spike.
 
Blueberries are the highest carb of all the berries - best avoided.
I have a self imposed limit of 10 percent carbs - they are over that.
The other berries I can eat with cream, in small amounts.
I do not eat Blueberries for two reasons..One as you say, they are higher in carbs, 2 I hate them lol
 
Comparatively speaking . I've had a liver transplant therefore which is going to kill me first.

If you don't look after either, either one can kill you..........and neither pleasantly!
 
Antioxidants can be found easily enough in other foods such as coffee, no need to seek them primarily from fruit.
Coffee is a fruit...
I eat lots of fruits, like cucumber, avocado, aubergine, olives, tomatoes and peppers. Of the sweeter fruits, like grapes, oranges or apples, I eat only a bite or two, and give the rest to my guinea-pigs. I think guinea-pigs should be on the NHS for diabetics. I might enjoy a bigger part of a sweet fruit as a hypo treatment occasionally.
 

Ah, I did not know that coffee is classed as a fruit, interesting stuff. I avoid all the traditional fruits these days apart from berries which I discovered go beautifully with Fage Greek yoghurt. Too much fructose really is no freind of the liver.
 
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