Help! My daughter (she’s 11, type 1) loves oat porridge and she’d love to eat it in the morning before school but... there is always a spike. No way to avoid spikes? Or maybe there are brands of porridge you could recommend please? View attachment 38378
Help! My daughter (she’s 11, type 1) loves oat porridge and she’d love to eat it in the morning before school but... there is always a spike. No way to avoid spikes? Or maybe there are brands of porridge you could recommend please? View attachment 38378
Me too. I like 10g of sultanas or a small amount of blackcurrant jam (OMG), because its more colourful and ads much needed flavour. Another nice flavour is coconut yogurt instead of milk. It becomes a thick paste.I am type 2, but eat porridge every morning.
Steel cut oats are available here in Australia, but they are a pain to cook, take 30min or more and the benefits are like two points lower GI ranking. I tried to cook a batch but failed. So I stick with a very well know brand here in Australa called Uncle Toby's traditional rolled oats, and the fact that I let them cook I think allows some more resistant starch to develop. Plus cooking them on the stove in plain water according to my testing slows down the peak spike compared to using the microwave. I stick to dairy products and yoghurt and diary yoghurt makes my tummy happy with all the pro-biotics.Me too. I like 10g of sultanas or a small amount of blackcurrant jam (OMG), because its more colourful and ads much needed flavour. Another nice flavour is coconut yogurt instead of milk. It becomes a thick paste.
Yet another option I like is mandarin segments with oats. No milk.
I gather steel-cut oats are more slowly digested than the very common rolled oats. But I don't see them in any shops.
Hi there, how much of a spike and for how long? x
I am type 2, but eat porridge every morning. I find adding fat in the form of peanut butter or full fat yoghurt, and a form of protein, both peanut butter and yoghurt have protein delays/mitigates a spike. 1 hour peak spike for me is 1.4 after and a 2hour hour peak of 0.6. This is for 52g rolled oats cooked in water, and left to cool for half an hour, with 100g yoghurt, 20g peanut butter and 70g blueberries.
Does your daughter walk to school, if not, have she tried it as an option to reduce the BG spike?