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Going from personal experience, no. My mother is diabetic and it has the same effect on her as well. But people can be different. If you want to make sure wait 3-4 hours after eating, test your blood, eat the Orange and re test your blood an hour after and then at the 2 hour mark
 
Hi & Welcome, the pork sausages have to be 85% meat, you will have a lot of cereal in the Sausages if they were just normal ones, giving you the carbs,

The fruit juice 'no added sugar', maybe doesn't, but will be full of natural fructose that will have spiked you also.

You mentioned a pear shape belly are you over weight? If you are, losing weight will make a lot of difference to your numbers and what you can eat. If you are very overweight there may be an opportunity for reversal or at least remission from diabetes.

Neil
 
Anything that is concentrated contains a great deal of sugar as well as fructose(another form of sugar).
That will definitely spike you.
I would stay away from fruit juices or shakes.
Apparently, the new 5veg,5fruit recommended a day. Will be changed to 7 veg and 3 fruit shortly!
 
Lord Beaverbrook when you are checking the carb content are you looking at the total carb content (for your portion), and not the "of what sugars"? My DN told me to look at the "of what sugars" figure as to the "Official" diabetes site, but this is wrong advice. You need to look at the total carb content
 
Eurobuff, yes looking at total.

Don't understand Vimto squash though:
Nutritional Information
ENERGY 8 kJ
CARBOHYDRATE0g
CALORIES2 kcal
FAT0
SUGAR0
SATURATES0
SALT0
SALT5.5mg(6.9% RI)*
*Reference Intake
* per 100ml of diluted product

Does this have hidden Fructose or is it safe?
 
Hi @Lord Beaverbrook , welcome, and well done for getting yourself a meter.

Lots to learn but it can be managed.

Have a read around, maybe starting with the items linked in my sig below, and ask any questions.
 
Think berries.. Anything basically with berry on the end won't spike so much.
 
Lord Beaverbrook said:
Hhhmmm,

Guinessberry
Stellaberry
Newcastle Brownberry
Click to expand...

Hee hee

Should have mentioned - though I'm sure you know this - that whilst spirits are zero carb, all alcohol is Calorie City, USA, so if you're counting calories you'll need to bear that in mind. I couldn't live a life entirely devoid of alcohol (or caffeine, come to that) so it's all a trade-off. You'll hear this said over and over again, but your meter is your friend, especially in the early days, as you learn what your particular bêtes noires are.

Re oranges, and, indeed, all foods, there's an excellent book called "Carbs and Cals" which will give you nutritional values for a wide range of foodstuffs, and a selection of serving sizes. Some of the worst fruit offenders from a carb point of view are tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples and the like. I'd say that oranges are middle of the road - the book quotes 4g of carbs for a small orange, 7 for a medium sized one and 10g for a large one. In the case of things like apples they are, unfortunately, cultivated for sweetness nowadays, so that a large dessert apple (for example) is 20g. A shame, because I have always loved apples but they evidently don't keep the doctor away any more Again, it's a trade-off: A diet entirely devoid of fruit is, in my opinion, as unhealthy as one with too much and I aim to have a couple of 10g "units" (for want of a better word) of fruit per day. Sometimes a unit will be a medium orange, sometimes a serving of berries, sometimes half a large apple ............ you get the picture.

PS: You're not really Maxwell Aitken, are you?
 
Hi there. There are no official guidelines and people on here find what suits them by trial and, one hopes, not too much error. I'm too fond of eating to count carbs meself, but I know from testing what I can manage and have a rough plan, ie green veg, meat, fish, dairy full-fat.
Drink it and see!
1) Do you like it? If yes, go to 2. If no, why are you drinking it then?
2) Test after 30 min, 1hr & 2 hr. If ok, go to 3. If spiked, give the bottle away.
3) Enjoy.
 

Looking at the ingredients it looks like the "no added sugar" type? I have drank this and it didn't spike me, but as they say everyone's different. The ingredients tend to suggest it's alright. If you like Vimto, have you tried the Vimto Squeezy? You add a small amount to water? It's quite nice and handy to take with you when you're out and about.
 
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