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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1528659" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Well, brown/granary bread is lower GI than white bread - so it is suggested for low GI diets.</p><p></p><p>But granary bread still has a lot of carbs in it,</p><p>This one has 17.5g of carbs per slice (and they aren't 'Thick' slices)</p><p><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254944133" target="_blank">https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254944133</a></p><p></p><p>While white bread has 17.9g of carbs per slice (again, not 'thick')</p><p><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=256174499" target="_blank">https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=256174499</a></p><p></p><p>So they both have virtually the same effect on blood glucose.</p><p>The only benefit of the bread being brown is that it has more fibre and takes a few minutes longer to digest. The same amount of carbs still hit the blood stream and still end up as glucose.</p><p></p><p>I have PCOS and insulin resistance, and I spent a long time testing out different foods and their effects on their blood glucose.</p><p>I found 'low GI foods' were useless to keep my blood glucose low and I ended up just cutting them from my diet - at which point I felt much better and my blood glucose and insulin resistance improved a great deal.</p><p></p><p>All those 'low GI' carbs can be replaced by other foods. So if you need to eat regularly you can pick other things like cheese, pepperami, very dark chocolate (which has very little carbs in it), nuts, seeds, and similar. They tend to be much more filling and satisfying, and you wont get hungry so quickly, or crave carby snacks so much.</p><p></p><p>The best thing to do is look at the nutrition value on the back of the food packaging. Ignore the sugar content, and look at the carbohydrate content. It is all the carbs that affect your blood glucose, not just sugars. If you click on the Tescos links I posted above, you can see that every product has a Nutrition table, even veg and meat. So it is easy to see where the carbs are coming from, and then avoid the ones that are high carb.</p><p></p><p>Here is a link to the Tescos webpage 'Go Ahead' range so you can check out the carb content in them.</p><p><a href="https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=go+ahead+slices&newSort=true&search=Search" target="_blank">https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=go+ahead+slices&newSort=true&search=Search</a></p><p>I wasn't sure which bar you ate, but generally those 'healthy' bars have a lot of carb and sugar, and are low fat. Which means that the carbs digest quickly and have a fast effect on blood glucose (with a knock on effect on insulin resistance).</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1528659, member: 41816"] Well, brown/granary bread is lower GI than white bread - so it is suggested for low GI diets. But granary bread still has a lot of carbs in it, This one has 17.5g of carbs per slice (and they aren't 'Thick' slices) [URL]https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254944133[/URL] While white bread has 17.9g of carbs per slice (again, not 'thick') [URL]https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=256174499[/URL] So they both have virtually the same effect on blood glucose. The only benefit of the bread being brown is that it has more fibre and takes a few minutes longer to digest. The same amount of carbs still hit the blood stream and still end up as glucose. I have PCOS and insulin resistance, and I spent a long time testing out different foods and their effects on their blood glucose. I found 'low GI foods' were useless to keep my blood glucose low and I ended up just cutting them from my diet - at which point I felt much better and my blood glucose and insulin resistance improved a great deal. All those 'low GI' carbs can be replaced by other foods. So if you need to eat regularly you can pick other things like cheese, pepperami, very dark chocolate (which has very little carbs in it), nuts, seeds, and similar. They tend to be much more filling and satisfying, and you wont get hungry so quickly, or crave carby snacks so much. The best thing to do is look at the nutrition value on the back of the food packaging. Ignore the sugar content, and look at the carbohydrate content. It is all the carbs that affect your blood glucose, not just sugars. If you click on the Tescos links I posted above, you can see that every product has a Nutrition table, even veg and meat. So it is easy to see where the carbs are coming from, and then avoid the ones that are high carb. Here is a link to the Tescos webpage 'Go Ahead' range so you can check out the carb content in them. [URL]https://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=go+ahead+slices&newSort=true&search=Search[/URL] I wasn't sure which bar you ate, but generally those 'healthy' bars have a lot of carb and sugar, and are low fat. Which means that the carbs digest quickly and have a fast effect on blood glucose (with a knock on effect on insulin resistance). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. [/QUOTE]
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