Malt extract

Brunneria

Brunneria

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The best way to see the carbohydrate content of a food (and therefore understand how much it is likely to raise blood glucose), is to check it online.

this is what I found about malt extract:
https://www.nutritionvalue.org/Syrups,_malt_nutritional_value.html

the carb content of 76% makes it very likely to raise blood glucose significantly depending on portion size.

malt extract has a number of other nutrients in it that you may consider useful to you, but all those nutrients can be found elsewhere, in other foods.

Personally, I view malt extract along with sugar, honey, fruit sugar, dates, grapes, pomegranate syrup and glucose syrup - basically I avoid them since sugary foods drive my blood glucose up, unless they are in v small quantities buried in a carbohydrate free main meal.

depending on the control you have over your blood glucose, your type of diabetes. And your medication, you may make other choices.
 
kaylz91

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Might be, try it and see

There is no right or wrong answer, diabetes is a VERY individual thing so where one might not tolerate something the next might be fine with it
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bulkbiker

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As a rule of thumb I'd aim for foods which are 10% carbohydrate or less... even better 5%.
Something like malt extract which is over 70% carb and 55% sugar is probably best avoided.
Whilst the "dose makes the poison" there are far nicer things to spend a carb allowance on...
 
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