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High after a salad!!!

Mal37

Mal37

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I had a greek salad of plum tomatoes, salad leaves, feta cheese and black olives.
Never eaten it before ... and when I tested after an hour and a quarter (eary with it being a new food) I had gone up to 8 !!!
I thought salads were okay?
Does anyone else have an idea why my bg levels spiked?
 
Mal37 said:
I had a greek salad of plum tomatoes, salad leaves, feta cheese and black olives.
Never eaten it before ... and when I tested after an hour and a quarter (eary with it being a new food) I had gone up to 8 !!!
I thought salads were okay?
Does anyone else have an idea why my bg levels spiked?
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What was your bg before you started eating??
Hard to know if it’s truly a spike if you don’t know where your starting from.
 
Could have been a rogue reading, try again. There is also the chance that you had just had a liver dump which would add to the bg. I test the same meal three times before deciding if it goes on my 'safe' list.

P.S. Also there is the possibility that your hands may have been contaminated especially if you had been handling the tomatoes.
 
Hotpepper20000 said:
What was your bg before you started eating??
Hard to know if it’s truly a spike if you don’t know where your starting from.
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Oh I forgot to say. It was 5,8 beforehand. I am going to retest at 6.15 as it will be two hours then.
 
Things with a lot of toms can put my sugars up higher than I want. What about the dressing
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I agree with the above comments.

Did you add any salad dressing??
 
Guzzler said:
Could have been a rogue reading, try again. There is also the chance that you had just had a liver dump which would add to the bg. I test the same meal three times before deciding if it goes on my 'safe' list.

P.S. Also there is the possibility that your hands may have been contaminated especially if you had been handling the tomatoes.
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I teted early v.... because it was new food for me. I will retest when exactly two hours though.
 
Mal37 said:
I teted early v.... because it was new food for me. I will retest when exactly two hours though.
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Sorry, I need to clarify. I meant that I test a meal on three separate occasions not that I test three times after the single meal.
 
That dressing, having lemon, likely also had a lot of added sugar to balance as well....
 
sachets and Lemon (!!!), this might be the reason, fresh Lemon even a couple of drops may affect some people significantly, anything artificial as substitute in the sachets for lemon might also affect even that their carbs may seem small.
 
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