Type 1: Mcvities Digestive

johnbear2 said:

My blood sugar levels were 23.5 last night due to eating 8 mcvities digestives yesterday,they are full of sugar

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Perhaps you may benefit from reading Dr Richard Bernsteins Diabetes Solution 4 th Edition

johnbear2 said:

My blood sugar levels were 23.5 last night due to eating 8 mcvities digestives yesterday,they are full of sugar

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Do you read labels before consuming food?

johnbear2 said:

My blood sugar levels were 23.5 last night due to eating 8 mcvities digestives yesterday,they are full of sugar

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It's pretty clear from the nutritional info on a packet of mcvities digestives that each biscuit contains 9.3g of carbs. So that's 74.4g of carbs in the 8 biscuits.

Do you carb count? Did you take any insulin for you evening biscuit snack?

A lot of people, myself included will use a plain biscuit like a digestive to prop blood sugar up or as part of a hypo treatment. They aren't the highest carb biscuit, but it's hardly a surprise that they contain sugar, they are a nice sweet biscuit after all

More the carbs than the sugar, I'd think @johnbear2

I like digestives, especially with cheese, but I tend to stick to two or three and bolus accordingly, of course.

Did you bolus for the biscuits? Did you miscalculate the carbs in them?

johnbear2 said:

My blood sugar levels were 23.5 last night due to eating 8 mcvities digestives yesterday,they are full of sugar

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Flour has a higher glycemic index than table sugar so you were not giving yourself much of a chance.

Clivethedrive said:

Perhaps you may benefit from reading Dr Richard Bernsteins Diabetes Solution 4 th Edition

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I dream of digestive biscuits Joan ODDIA