Prunes in Grape syrup (Tinned)
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It’s a no from me.
If you do eat it check before and hourly after on a meter til back to pre feeding levels. Way too many carbs and the amount of fructose, which doesn’t show on a meter, won’t do non alcoholic fatty liver any good at all (very common in type2 and makes insulin resistance worse).
How many carbs are listed on the label?
If you do eat it check before and hourly after on a meter til back to pre feeding levels. Way too many carbs and the amount of fructose, which doesn’t show on a meter, won’t do non alcoholic fatty liver any good at all (very common in type2 and makes insulin resistance worse).
How many carbs are listed on the label?
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Oops sorry I just saw its your first post. Welcome. Have you read much on here so far? What about
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html or https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...ish-i’d-been-told-at-type-2-diagnosis.173817/
I’m confused by your profile if you are prediabetic what oral tablets are you on? It’s unusual for a prediabetic to be medicated for diabetes
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html or https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...ish-i’d-been-told-at-type-2-diagnosis.173817/
I’m confused by your profile if you are prediabetic what oral tablets are you on? It’s unusual for a prediabetic to be medicated for diabetes
Strictly speaking, it depends on how many you're planning on eating. However, I've just looked up tinned prunes in syrup on a supermarket website and they're 26.8g of carbs per 100g. It's a 420g tin, so that's 112.6g for the whole tin. The label also has "intensely sweet" as a tagline, which should probably serve as more of a warning than a selling point.
It's not an option I'd personally consider.
It's not an option I'd personally consider.
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Far too much sugar for me. If you do eat them, I'd recommend testing to get as much data as you can - not just baseline and +2 hr mark, but it might be worth testing at 30, 60 and 90 mins, just to record the impact. If still very high at 2hrs, I'd go on testing at hourly intervals until you're back to baseline.
My one recent(ish) experience with a very high sugar item is that I was left with nausea and headache for about two days.
Even if by some miracle they treated you well in terms of blood sugars, I'd be highly concerned about the medium to long term risk of fructose-induced gout.
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Welcome 
For me the clue is in the title, ‘syrup’ in other words sugar. I don’t have sugar anymore, it’s what made me a T2 in the first place
For me the clue is in the title, ‘syrup’ in other words sugar. I don’t have sugar anymore, it’s what made me a T2 in the first place
Not a great idea for most T2s and pre-diabetics in my view. I doubt I;'d be in remission if I ate this much carbs often.
Fruit juices generally make my blood sugar shoot up as the sugar is absorbed quickly.
Fruit juices generally make my blood sugar shoot up as the sugar is absorbed quickly.
