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Lol...............things have weirdly different names sometimes!!!!! I'm sure you have them, maybe????

"Fruit leathers, sometimes referred to as fruit rolls or Fruit Roll-ups, are popular dried food snacks. They are formed when fruit is pureed (generally from a concentrate when mass-produced) cooked, dried, and rolled or cut out (for easy storage and packaging). The sticky solution is then spread on a nonstick surface on which it is dried."

They had managed to get fruit leathers to be qualified as a serving of fruit for school lunches. But most fruit leathers are almost a junk food/candy with a mixed fruit concentrate, flavor and sugar added. A natural company makes them with the pure fruit listed as the concentrate and no sugar added. More fruit was in them, but because they didn't have the added sugar they didn't meet the weight requirement for the serving of fruit. They did manage to get them to qualify after appealing and submitting more information.

But think of dried fruit, but guaranteed sweet because of it being concentrated. And then the fact that most have added sugar! And that's why they appeal to kids to be served instead of fruit.
 
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As a T2D on orals, these would be problematic to say the least. Who needs a Glucose Challenge test when you've got them here in the lunchbox? in the old days, leathers performed the function of keeping the rain out Amazing how language evolves.
 
Oldvatr said:
As a T2D on orals, these would be problematic to say the least.
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And as a T1 they sound like a tasty hypo treatment, even without the added sugar. A nice variation on my trusty winegums and licorice.
Doesn't sound like food though.
 
So does that means you guys don't have fruit leathers or rollups???

They have been hugely popular here since starting around the mid 80's! By the nineties they were everywhere! In looking at them now it looks like several companies have cleaned up the ingredients in them to contain only fruit and not added sugar.

A brief history of why they were originally called leather.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/507887/little-known-history-fruit-roll-ups
 
@valann just to chime in on hypos. If low carb has the effect on your levels that we and you hope, you may find that these become an issue and you'll need to consult with your team to reduce your diabetic meds. Some T2s have even come off insulin as a result of low carb, but you'll have to wait and see what it does for you.

Good luck.
 

Hi EllieM,

very interesting info thank you. So far I am only on 1 tablet a day for my T2 (canagliflozin), but they were talking about adding another tablet and maybe an injectable. Which I don't want and is why I was searching for some answers when I found this forum, after reading for a few days I decided to try the low carb diet which appears to be working for me. So am hoping that my blood tests come back much lower so that I can avoid those "injectables" they are talking about.

It's very difficult to get in contact with my team and when you do it's by phone only, even the blood tests are done by a none medical person, so I'm waiting until they contact me early September to let them know I am trying low carb. They don't even want us to have meters to test ourselves.
 
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