There is no sugar in a jacket potato, but with a 450g potato there are 26g of carbs, that is more than I eat in a day. If you want to try a jacket potato, I suggest a much smaller one and test after one hour, then two. Potato's are usually things a diabetic would avoid like the plague, especially old ones.
There is no sugar in a jacket potato, but with a 450g potato there are 26g of carbs, that is more than I eat in a day. If you want to try a jacket potato, I suggest a much smaller one and test after one hour, then two. Potato's are usually things a diabetic would avoid like the plague, especially old ones.
Sorry,l don't think that's right Jo. Potatos are about 16 grams carbs per 100, so a 450 gram spud would be about 72 grams carbs.
Still nowhere near the same as 2lb sugar! That's about 900 grams carbs!!
But to re-inforce the point, jacket potato is also really high on the glycaemic index so personally I wouldn't go near one. Well, only to serve it to someone else!
Mr Hyde
Half of each Sucrose molecule is Fructose and doesn't affect blood sugar [it does other nasty things though! :cry: ]
And 100% of each starch molecule is Glucose, which does raise blood sugar.
Thus you could say that twice the carb from a baked potato becomes blood sugar, compared with the same weight of table sugar.
So your potato story has some validity
Hana
Sorry,l don't think that's right Jo. Potatos are about 16 grams carbs per 100, so a 450 gram spud would be about 72 grams carbs.
Still nowhere near the same as 2lb sugar! That's about 900 grams carbs!!
But to re-inforce the point, jacket potato is also really high on the glycaemic index so personally I wouldn't go near one. Well, only to serve it to someone else!
I took my figure from my usual carb site, but as I have not been near a spud in months, took the numbers as was. So I could be wrong, :shh: That will teach me to trust web sites for items I have no clue about. I always cross check my own food, but there again, that's going into me, and I can't afford to get it wrong.
I still wouldn't go near a spud of any size or age :lol:
thanks to all you guys ,wish i had computer years ago i might be much healthier than i am.learning such alot in short time , when i was dx i was just told to eat sensibly ah well thats what i pay N/I for.dave