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Please help me understand this study

I certainly find you can eat fruit far more successfully after a meal. I like doing fresh fruit salad made with whatever is currently available. It normally works out somewhere close to 15g per 100g. I can do around 150g without any major spikes so long as I eat it after my main meal.

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The article seems to say berries can actually lessen the effects of eating the bread. Have I read this correctly?
I eat berries for "dessert" after almost every meal. Would like to learn more, so I suppose I could test this too. Anyone done this?

I love fruit and could live off fruits, seeds and yoghurt.

I always wanted an orchard - now I have one I'm told fruit isn't good for me as a diabetic. I'm so proud of the grape vines I planted against my house and love to sit outside on summer evenings and eat them. To me, this sometimes seems the most unfair of all the stuff diabetes brings.

Jane
 
The same study could have been conducted with any two food items as one is a high G.I. and one is a low If they had used rice and brassicas I would have expected the same result as the overall G.I. would be lower. If they had used white bread and dates, both have a high G.I. and so not the same result.

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/143/4/430.abstract



You can eat low G.I. fruit as a dessert as it will lower the impact of any high G.I. foods you may have eaten in your meal. If ypou ate a low G.I. meal then it is not going to push the G.I. up.
 
I eat berries, along with plums, apples, pears and other northern european fruits. Grapes, oranges, melons are sweeter and have to be eaten in small portions. Pienapples are a definite no.

Some fruits with certain types of acid do help reduce blood sugar levels. Citric acid is quite good at this so an orange tends to be OK for me if I don't overdo it. Cider vinegar, one spoonful in two spoonfuls of water drops my BGs like a stone. But, it does creep up again. It is only a temporary thing and if you are habitually drinking cider vinegar, you will most likely get some other problem.
 
I think the study is saying that if you want to have a slightly lower GI summer pudding you could make it with white bread and strawberries (rather than some of the other berries) Alternatively you could make it with either white or rye bread with a delightful mixture of strawberries, bilberries, cranberries, and blackcurrants ;)


The researchers say that there are test tube studies to suggest that the polyphenols in berries may reduce the absorption and digestion of starch.(so as Catherine says alter GI) They were testing the effect in healthy women

Strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, and chokeberries all significantly reduced the amount of insulin produced compared with that produced by white bread alone,( this presumably means that raspberries and cloudberries didn't, )
The berry mixture with either white or rye bread also resulted in a significantly lower production of insulin.

Interestingly, it was only strawberries with the white bread or the berry mixture with either white or rye bread that actually also reduced the glucose response ( 36%; white bread/strawberries, 38% white bread/berry mix ; 19% rye/berry mix
( remember though these were women with normal glucose mechanisms and that though the rye bread may seem to have a worse result ,it already had a lower glucose response. White bread is high GI, rye normally lower)

Seriously, I think what the others said about eating low GI fruit or berries for dessert is probably the best advice.( I'm T1 but that's what I do and thinking about it, I don't tend to add any extra insulin for berries or a small fruit salad eaten for dessert. )
 
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