Is this bread too good to be true?

[johnrubinstein]

So I’m over here New Orleans for a visit with my family and to enjoy Mardi Gras (I live in the UK) — which by the way is one of the most fantastic experiences I’ve ever had. At any rate, day after my arrival, we make a trip to Whole Foods to do some shopping. I look in bread section to see if there’s any low-carb bread and I come across this incredible, or seemingly incredible bread called Hero: 1 gram net carb per slice! Being a trusting soul, I give a hoop and throw it in the cart.

Yesterday evening, after returning from a parade late evening, I take a couple of slices and make myself a cheese and peanut butter sandwich (my daughter says ugh!, But I like it) and have a nosh before going to bed. Wake up around 4 am and for some reason decide to check my CGM reading (using Dexcom OnePlus): it’s at 9 mol/L! Usually, overnight my reading is around 6 to 6.5. Now it’s 8 am in the morning. It’s still over seven. To be more precise, it went from around 5.5 at around 9 pm to 9 by 4 am.

I now take a closer look at the ingredients, and you tell me whether it’s at all conceivable with these ingredients to have a 1 g net carb per slice. Take a look at the picture.

 

[johnrubinstein]

Forgot to add a picture of the front of the package.

 

[lovinglife]

The nutritional value looks fine, it’s very like the breads I buy over here in the uk from the Low Carb Food Co & Seriously Low Carb. I have no discernible affect from eating these breads

Other things to look at, did you eat or drink anything else during the course of the evening? How much peanut butter did you have? I can’t have much of that as it can be quite carby. Did you go to bed right after the food? You’re away from home on holiday, out of your routine, you could be starting to sicken for something like a cold or low grade infection. Could you have dropped low and your liver kicked in and overshot with the correction (this happens to me when my liver dumps)

Are you in any meds for your diabetes?

Have you tested with a finger prick test to make sure your CGM is working properly?

Perhaps try the meal again and test and see, maybe a few hours before you go to bed

 

[johnrubinstein]

The nutritional value looks fine, it’s very like the breads I buy over here in the uk from the Low Carb Food Co & Seriously Low Carb. I have no discernible affect from eating these breads

Other things to look at, did you eat or drink anything else during the course of the evening? How much peanut butter did you have? I can’t have much of that as it can be quite carby. Did you go to bed right after the food? You’re away from home on holiday, out of your routine, you could be starting to sicken for something like a cold or low grade infection. Could you have dropped low and your liver kicked in and overshot with the correction (this happens to me when my liver dumps)

Are you in any meds for your diabetes?

Have you tested with a finger prick test to make sure your CGM is working properly?

Perhaps try the meal again and test and see, maybe a few hours before you go to bed

Many thanks. I’m type 2, have been since 2017 and so far I’ve been able to stay away from meds. My HbA1c is in the prediabetic range.

I think I used about 2/3 of a tablespoon of peanut butter. But hey, it could’ve been a one off. I’ll test it some more particularly since you don’t see anything unusual in the ingredients list. Out of curiosity, what low carb breads do you buy in the UK? I used to buy livLife at Waitrose, but this past January they discontinued it: Waitrose was the only place to buy this bread.

 

[Rachox]

From the nutritional info on the back of the packet I would say that one slice comes in at 13g of carbohydrate. I’ve circled the relevant info here on your photo.

Edit to add, I’ve just realised this is a USA product, I think therefore the 12g of fiber should be subtracted from the carbs so maybe it is only 1g per slice?

 

[lovinglife]

Many thanks. I’m type 2, have been since 2017 and so far I’ve been able to stay away from meds. My HbA1c is in the prediabetic range.

I think I used about 2/3 of a tablespoon of peanut butter. But hey, it could’ve been a one off. I’ll test it some more particularly since you don’t see anything unusual in the ingredients list. Out of curiosity, what low carb breads do you buy in the UK? I used to buy livLife at Waitrose, but this past January they discontinued it: Waitrose was the only place to buy this bread.

There’s about 3g carb in a tablespoon of peanut butter so you had anywhere between 8 - 11g carb depending on how much peanut butter you had.

Google Low Carb Food Co. & Seriously Low Carb - I but bread, rolls, bagels, wraps & pizza bases from these two companies, there’s also one called Haylo I think but I’ve never bought from them. It’s all on the expensive side but worth it if you’re really missing bread etc. it needs to be stored in the freezer, I just take what I want out now & again as I need it

 

[johnrubinstein]

From the nutritional info on the back of the packet I would say that one slice comes in at 13g of carbohydrate. I’ve circled the relevant info here on your photo.

Edit to add, I’ve just realised this is a USA product, I think therefore the 12g of fiber should be subtracted from the carbs so maybe it is only 1g per slice?

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Hi there. Yes, fibre is of course a carb, but because it is not digested and metabolised into sugar it doesn’t count: therefore the subtraction.

 

[Melgar]

As well as the bread you may wish to consider your time change. New Orleans is in the Central time zone, so 6 hours behind of the UK. When I travel to the UK, I’m on Pacific time so 8 hours behind the UK, my blood sugars go to pot. My circadian rhythm system, which is very important for your metabolic system, gets messed up. Your circadian system affects your hormones, growth hormones, cortisol secretions, when you feel hungry, at what times you drink, when you sleep, when you wake. In short crossing multiple time zones impact your entire system.

When we think of the circadian system we think of the hypothalamus, but there are clocks throughout the body. Your pancreas, your liver, your brain and your muscles contain clocks. These clocks are there to keep your body in homeostasis, but when this system goes out of sync you can expect it to impact your bodily responses to many external inputs.

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[Antje77]

What does the pot of peanut butter say?
I think US peanut butter often has a lot more sugar added than UK versions.

 

[KennyA]

I tried plenty of the low carb breads available in the US last year and they were all genuinely neutral as far as my BG went. Most supermarkets had a fairly big range.

Assuming the info on the packaging is correct, something else is causing the elevation.

 

[Angela64]

The nutritional value looks fine, it’s very like the breads I buy over here in the uk from the Low Carb Food Co & Seriously Low Carb. I have no discernible affect from eating these breads

Other things to look at, did you eat or drink anything else during the course of the evening? How much peanut butter did you have? I can’t have much of that as it can be quite carby. Did you go to bed right after the food? You’re away from home on holiday, out of your routine, you could be starting to sicken for something like a cold or low grade infection. Could you have dropped low and your liver kicked in and overshot with the correction (this happens to me when my liver dumps)

Are you in any meds for your diabetes?

Have you tested with a finger prick test to make sure your CGM is working properly?

Perhaps try the meal again and test and see, maybe a few hours before you go to bed

I get Whole Earth peanut butter which says 9g per 100g so not that bad as long as you don’t spread it too thick