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Red wine before food - experiment

Bluetit1802

Bluetit1802

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I enjoy a glass of red wine, and I do tend to have a few sips before I eat whilst tea is cooking. I have always tested my pre-tea levels before I start on the wine, but today and yesterday I decided to test before my first sip and then again before my first bite. The results for both days are, quite coincidentally, identical.

Both days. Tested each test twice to confirm. 75ml of wine is not a lot ;)

Before wine 5.2
Before tea (15 minutes later after about 75ml wine) 4.7

So it looks like my 75ml wine on an empty tummy dropped my levels by half a mmol/l.

Interesting!
 
More intensive tests required I feel ... ;)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I enjoy a glass of red wine, and I do tend to have a few sips before I eat whilst tea is cooking. I have always tested my pre-tea levels before I start on the wine, but today and yesterday I decided to test before my first sip and then again before my first bite. The results for both days are, quite coincidentally, identical.

Both days. Tested each test twice to confirm. 75ml of wine is not a lot ;)

Before wine 5.2
Before tea (15 minutes later after about 75ml wine) 4.7

So it looks like my 75ml wine on an empty tummy dropped my levels by half a mmol/l.

Interesting!
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Hey BT

Works the same for me :) You're right ... it is interesting
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I enjoy a glass of red wine, and I do tend to have a few sips before I eat whilst tea is cooking. I have always tested my pre-tea levels before I start on the wine, but today and yesterday I decided to test before my first sip and then again before my first bite. The results for both days are, quite coincidentally, identical.

Both days. Tested each test twice to confirm. 75ml of wine is not a lot ;)

Before wine 5.2
Before tea (15 minutes later after about 75ml wine) 4.7

So it looks like my 75ml wine on an empty tummy dropped my levels by half a mmol/l.

Interesting!
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thanks for this I will have to try it.
I understand red wine is certainly better than beer for the T2
 
mat1uk said:
Beer = liquid bread unfortunately :-/
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Beer lager wine and spirits all make my bg go lower, and never seem to go high the next day, although neither does alot of food, kentucky fried chicken and fries, on the very rare occaision i eat it will not send me above 7 after 1 hour and below 6 at 2 hours

Mark
 
Not tried beer since I was diagnosed but wine and spirits seem to lower my bg slightly. No problems kfc. If you look on the kfc website, the carbs are surprisingly low but you do have to pick carefully.
 
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