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What did I eat to raise my blood sugar?

Nodemus

Nodemus

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Southwest UK
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
Can anyone shed some light on this
Bacon
Egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Sauerkraut
2 teas with semi skimmed milk and Aldi sucralose sweetener?
Fasting bloods 9.9 2 hours after breakfast 12.3mmol
 
Milk has lactose and can spike blood sugar.
Veggies like mushroom and cabbage also have carbs in the which can spike sugar
 
Bear in mind there is more than food to raise blood sugars.
You could be seeing "Foot on the Floor" rise - a "helpful" glucose dump to give us energy to start our day.
It could also be stress, exercise, medication, illness, ...
There are often mentioned 42 things which can affect our levels.
 
What did you do in the 2hrs after your breakfast, shower, house work, gardening? Any activity or exercise can and will affect our glucose levels, even our emotions can cause our levels to change, so arguments or difficult phone calls in fact the slightest bit of stress can make a difference.
If your levels have been high for some time, your body will have been storing glucose in any spare corner it can find. It will use any excuse it can to try and use up that excess by dumping it into your bloodstream.
Sometimes it can be impossible to understand exactly why our blood sugar levels do what they do. All we can do is our best not to add to the amount of stored glucose by eating as few carbs as possible, and hope that eventually our levels will come down.
 
This meal appears to be breakfast. i,e, breaking a fast. So our bodies have a process called gluconeogenesis which manufactures glucose for the brain from anything that is to hand inclyding protein. This is a byproduct of a low carb lifestyle. Eventually our bodies adjust and starts to use lipid fat directly insead (keto fat burning mode) We need some glucose to keep the brain and vital organs running (like an emergency battery.)
 
@catinahat makes some good points Nothing looks too bad there except maybe the tomato, carbs in mushrooms are negligible. It’s important to look at both numbers. Your fasting is a bit high but the rise was just a bit over 2 at 2.4, a rise of 2 or below is seen as acceptable. So the food you ate was pretty ok for you as the rise suggests but your fasting number is on the high side.

You could try dropping the tomato or reducing the portion, tomatoes come in a big range of sizes and see if that cuts your rise slightly
 
I’d vote for the tomato as the most likely culprit of the food items listed. (If it was indeed the food responsible as explained above).

I’d also check the sweetener. Many granulated or tablet ones are packaged with things like dextrose or maltodextrin as bulking agents. Which whilst zero calorie still manage to be very high on the GI scale and produce a spike in a lot of us.

I stick to erythritol or go without. Stevia is a great choice if you can adapt or tolerate its taste ( all sweeteners have their own taste). Xylitol is easier to buy in supermarkets and tastes most sugar like but its toxic to dogs and has a small glycemic effect. Liquid drops are another option. monkfruit is liked by many but to me tastes like stevia and is expensive. I avoid the artificial ones that are the mainstream in supermarkets and stick to the natural ones listed above for reasons other than glycemic response.
 
Nodemus said:
Can anyone shed some light on this
Bacon
Egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Sauerkraut
2 teas with semi skimmed milk and Aldi sucralose sweetener?
Fasting bloods 9.9 2 hours after breakfast 12.3mmol
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I have had a problem with prepared sauerkraut. It's not the cabbage itself, but some commercially produced varieties have quite a bit of added sugar. I fell foul of one of these some time ago, and I can't recall the brand or the actual carb content but I think it was around 16-18g/100g.

I now use a canned sauerkraut from Lidl that is 3g/100g.
 
According to USDA, one cup serving (140g) of sauerkraut contains 18 g of catbs.
 
Some of you are mentioning the tomatoes as the culprit , when I was diagnosed some 48 years ago I was given a list of diabetic free foods as they called them and tomatoes was one of them , I have eaten them as free foods ever since and to be honest never even checked it , do they contain carbs ?
 
Nodemus said:
Can anyone shed some light on this
Bacon
Egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Sauerkraut
2 teas with semi skimmed milk and Aldi sucralose sweetener?
Fasting bloods 9.9 2 hours after breakfast 12.3mmol
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If it is fairly early on in your diabetic career then an increase of less than 3 is not all that significant.
You could try testing after eating less of just one of the ingredients you suspect, but as you seem to be starting off with fairly high BG levels you might simply need to wait for improvement from the lower carb choices being made.
 
jaywak said:
Some of you are mentioning the tomatoes as the culprit , when I was diagnosed some 48 years ago I was given a list of diabetic free foods as they called them and tomatoes was one of them , I have eaten them as free foods ever since and to be honest never even checked it , do they contain carbs ?
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They do. Not stupid amounts but they are there They are also one of those things that are very variable both in terms of variety and personal response.
 
Oldvatr said:
According to USDA, one cup serving (140g) of sauerkraut contains 18 g of catbs.
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The USDA includes fibre in the carb count, you need to substract that to get the usual UK carb count.

My Google gives a completely different result, I'm rather puzzled by your 18 grams per 140, that would make 13 grams per 100:
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The pack of sauerkraut I currently have in my kitchen says:

SoortPer 100 Gram
Energie54 kJ (13 kcal)
Vet0 g
waarvan verzadigd0 g
waarvan onverzadigd0 g
Koolhydraten1 g
waarvan suikers0 g
Voedingsvezel2.5 g
Eiwitten1 g
Zout1.5 g
 
Nodemus said:
Can anyone shed some light on this
Bacon
Egg
Fried tomato
Mushrooms
Sauerkraut
2 teas with semi skimmed milk and Aldi sucralose sweetener?
Fasting bloods 9.9 2 hours after breakfast 12.3mmol
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Odd that no-one so far has mentioned the sucralose sweetener..
Have you checked the back of the pack to see what carbs it has.
That, the tomatoes and the sauerkraut (again check the label) would be my main culprits
Next time try eggs bacon and mushrooms on their own.
 
Tomatoes have carbs and there is always some contribution from meat. I wouldn't worry about that amount of BS increase but may be you should be starting Metformin? Discuss with the GP.
 
jaywak said:
Some of you are mentioning the tomatoes as the culprit , when I was diagnosed some 48 years ago I was given a list of diabetic free foods as they called them and tomatoes was one of them , I have eaten them as free foods ever since and to be honest never even checked it , do they contain carbs ?
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Tomatoes are essentially water. Barely any carbs (from memory a whole tomato has 5 g carbs. Edit, just looked it up. 3.9 g carbs). I'm not saying that they didn't spike the OP but it seems unlikely
 
Everyone is so individual. *For me* that meal would not raise my blood sugar at all.

BUT (and especially in the morning) lots of other things might. Being cold (and especially going out into the cold, which raises my BG about 2mmol, for about 10 minutes). Having a hot shower. Being stressed. (I’d say being unwell, but that tends to raise them more consistently over a day or so rather than a spike). Exercising (even just a walk, if it’s uphill or something).
 
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