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ixi1429

ixi1429

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
So I use Pistachios as a snack. I normally but the ones form Tesco or Sainsbury's. They come in 150g bags @ approx. 10g Carbs per 100g. My wife (doing the right thing) bought some form Aldi @ 19g Carbs per 100g/ Almost double. As far as I can tell there is no real difference though.
 
so why is it 10.2g on the bag? Misleading labelling?
slightly annoying
 
I have just looked them up in Carbs & Calorie counter - 60g with shells = 2g of carbs. its double without shells.
 
Ultimately nuts are really slow to absorb, so shouldn't give the BG a hard time whether on oral meds or insulin.....
 
ixi1429 said:
So I use Pistachios as a snack. I normally but the ones form Tesco or Sainsbury's. They come in 150g bags @ approx. 10g Carbs per 100g. My wife (doing the right thing) bought some form Aldi @ 19g Carbs per 100g/ Almost double. As far as I can tell there is no real difference though.
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Yes, I recognise the problem. I recently found some packets of beansprouts in Sainsbury's. Only 0.7g carbs per 100g! I thought it was my birthday, even though they do weigh quite heavy. Just round the corner I saw packets of beansprouts in Morrison's, apparently identical except 1.6g carbs per 100g. Incidentally the Morrisons ones come out higher in protein too.

I buy a lot of cheddar cheese and the different brands vary between 0.1 and 1g carbs per 100g. Can this be true? If it were, of course I would buy the brand that is lower in carbs. I notice too that in his book Dr Bernstein attributes a lot more carbs to cheese than are shown on the packets here. Is this because the American cheese contains more carbs, or because we should not trust what we read on packets?

It seems to me that all this uncertainty is designed to torture us, and the harder we try the more painful it gets. Unreliable meter readings, unreliable food labels, inaccurate A1c tests ... I suppose it's better than blissful ignorance and the Eatwell plate?
 
ixi1429 said:
So I use Pistachios as a snack. I normally but the ones form Tesco or Sainsbury's. They come in 150g bags @ approx. 10g Carbs per 100g. My wife (doing the right thing) bought some form Aldi @ 19g Carbs per 100g/ Almost double. As far as I can tell there is no real difference though.
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Have you tried walnuts from Home Bargains (cheaper) and Morrisons - both 3.3g carbs per 100g or almonds from Aldi (cheaper) or Sainsbury's - both 9.1g carbs per 100 ? That's if we can believe the packets. Sainsbury's pistachios come in at 11.9g carbs per 100g!!! I really don't think the difference is in the products.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Have you tried walnuts from Home Bargains (cheaper) and Morrisons - both 3.3g carbs per 100g or almonds from Aldi (cheaper) or Sainsbury's - both 9.1g carbs per 100 ? That's if we can believe the packets. Sainsbury's pistachios come in at 11.9g carbs per 100g!!! I really don't think the difference is in the products.
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OMG Sainsbury's has walnuts at 8.5g carbs per 100g. It's a minefield. I have long thought, it would be so much simpler just to stop eating altogether.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Yes, I recognise the problem. I recently found some packets of beansprouts in Sainsbury's. Only 0.7g carbs per 100g! I thought it was my birthday, even though they do weigh quite heavy. Just round the corner I saw packets of beansprouts in Morrison's, apparently identical except 1.6g carbs per 100g. Incidentally the Morrisons ones come out higher in protein too.

I buy a lot of cheddar cheese and the different brands vary between 0.1 and 1g carbs per 100g. Can this be true? If it were, of course I would buy the brand that is lower in carbs. I notice too that in his book Dr Bernstein attributes a lot more carbs to cheese than are shown on the packets here. Is this because the American cheese contains more carbs, or because we should not trust what we read on packets?

It seems to me that all this uncertainty is designed to torture us, and the harder we try the more painful it gets. Unreliable meter readings, unreliable food labels, inaccurate A1c tests ... I suppose it's better than blissful ignorance and the Eatwell plate?
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Nuts especially seem to vary a lot. Walnuts sometimes 3.1g; others around 6g. It must be the variety or where they are grown I suppose.
 
dbr10 said:
Nuts especially seem to vary a lot. Walnuts sometimes 3.1g; others around 6g. It must be the variety or where they are grown I suppose.
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I wish I could believe that. It would be so nice and simple if we could just go by the info on the packet. It might be worth contacting the people who sell the packets of food to the shops how they decide on the carb content.
 
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