Wasn't too sure where else to put this so move to another forum if appropriate but I stumbled across the below article yesterday after doing a bit of research on carbs as I am trying to cut back after my last HBA1c test., The article is a couple of years old but I find it most bizarre and surely unscientific although it did make me laugh enough to try it out. Basically it says to -
"Simply chew on a plain cracker until it changes in flavour from a bland biscuit to quite sweet. If the taste changes in less than 30 seconds, your body probably processes carbs quite effectively.
But if the cracker hasn’t changed taste after 30 seconds, then you should seriously consider eating a lower carb diet.
If you notice the sweetness within 0 to 14 seconds, your body processes carbs efficiently for use as energy — you can have 250g of carbs a day (roughly four slices of wholewheat bread).
If it takes 15 to 30 seconds, you can have 175g of carbs a day (around three-and-a-half slices of wholewheat bread).
More than 30 seconds, you’re not a great processor of carbs so the body is less able to use the excess as energy, and so stores it as fat. So you can have just 125g of carbs a day (around three slices of wholewheat bread).
When I did the test, it took me 34 seconds to taste the sweetness — unsurprisingly, given my history of weight gain."
For a laugh I tried it out. First cracker went down the gullet and into my stomach within about 7 seconds which kind of defeats the object so the hardest part was actually chewing on the thing for a while! Second attempt interestingly it turned quite sweet within 10 seconds which according to the author means I can have pasties and cake all the time, which giving my latest HBA1c clearly isn't the case (sadly!) Obviously it has major flaws. How sweet is sweet for instance, are we talking just a little or a lot? Plus the mind plays funny games and if you want it to taste sweet after 10 seconds then it will taste sweet after 10 seconds!
Try it out though. Would be interesting to see the scores, as I say at 10 seconds for me albeit not quite at Jam doughnut levels!
Maybe we should start a Fruitcake News Article Thread, although Fruitcake might not be the best choice of word for a variety of reasons!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5805491/Want-know-carbs-make-fat-nibble-cracker.html
"Simply chew on a plain cracker until it changes in flavour from a bland biscuit to quite sweet. If the taste changes in less than 30 seconds, your body probably processes carbs quite effectively.
But if the cracker hasn’t changed taste after 30 seconds, then you should seriously consider eating a lower carb diet.
If you notice the sweetness within 0 to 14 seconds, your body processes carbs efficiently for use as energy — you can have 250g of carbs a day (roughly four slices of wholewheat bread).
If it takes 15 to 30 seconds, you can have 175g of carbs a day (around three-and-a-half slices of wholewheat bread).
More than 30 seconds, you’re not a great processor of carbs so the body is less able to use the excess as energy, and so stores it as fat. So you can have just 125g of carbs a day (around three slices of wholewheat bread).
When I did the test, it took me 34 seconds to taste the sweetness — unsurprisingly, given my history of weight gain."
For a laugh I tried it out. First cracker went down the gullet and into my stomach within about 7 seconds which kind of defeats the object so the hardest part was actually chewing on the thing for a while! Second attempt interestingly it turned quite sweet within 10 seconds which according to the author means I can have pasties and cake all the time, which giving my latest HBA1c clearly isn't the case (sadly!) Obviously it has major flaws. How sweet is sweet for instance, are we talking just a little or a lot? Plus the mind plays funny games and if you want it to taste sweet after 10 seconds then it will taste sweet after 10 seconds!
Try it out though. Would be interesting to see the scores, as I say at 10 seconds for me albeit not quite at Jam doughnut levels!
Maybe we should start a Fruitcake News Article Thread, although Fruitcake might not be the best choice of word for a variety of reasons!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5805491/Want-know-carbs-make-fat-nibble-cracker.html
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