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Almond milk unsweetened

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Gimli

Gimli

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Hi I've started using almond milk in coffee but noticed its not helping my sugers at all..
7.4 after coffee today
No breakfast either as fasting a few hours.
Last night was only salmon and asparagus motzeralla cheese slice two inches wide flat.
Driving me insane.
Anyone else know if almond milk can drive it up I was under impression it would not hurt only a few carbs
 
Gimli said:
Hi I've started using almond milk in coffee but noticed its not helping my sugers at all..
7.4 after coffee today
No breakfast either as fasting a few hours.
Last night was only salmon and asparagus motzeralla cheese slice two inches wide flat.
Driving me insane.
Anyone else know if almond milk can drive it up I was under impression it would not hurt only a few carbs
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Is it the coffee rather than the milk? Caffeine makes my blood glucose rise, I tend to drink decaf these days.(Though I have heard people say on here that caffeine doesn't affect them, so it may be one of these individual things.)

Edit. Had a further thought, is it just morning when it happens? If so, it could just be that your liver is pumping out glucose in the early hours in preparation for the day ahead ( sometimes known as the Dawn Phenomenon, or 'Feet hit the floor' syndrome if it happens soon after you get up.)
 
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Gimli said:
Hi I've started using almond milk in coffee but noticed its not helping my sugers at all..
7.4 after coffee today
No breakfast either as fasting a few hours.
Last night was only salmon and asparagus motzeralla cheese slice two inches wide flat.
Driving me insane.
Anyone else know if almond milk can drive it up I was under impression it would not hurt only a few carbs
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I watched a programme last night called Supershoppers, and they were saying many of these dairy substitutes, are mainly water but they are often sweeten to make them palatable.
 
grovesy said:
I watched a programme last night called Supershoppers, and they were saying many of these dairy substitutes, are mainly water but they are often sweeten to make them palatable.
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The almond milk I get is unsweetened, there is a version that contains sugar. I assume from the thread title that Gimli is using the unsweetened version.
( as an aside, I find it interesting that they sell 'original' and 'unsweetened' I'd have preferred it if the 'original' didn't contain sugar, and the sweetened version was labelled 'sweetened'!)
 
I don't have problems with almond milk nor ordinary milk nor coffee but, as someone said, it is very individual.
 
Hi @Gimli & welcome to the forum. How long have you been diagnosed? It may just be that if you are recently diagnosed that your body still has to get used to things. BG canremain quite high for a while before starting to come down. Unsweetened almond milk should not have any effect on you BG, though caffeine does affect some.
 
If it's just a splash of milk in your coffee it shouldn't make noticeable difference whatever you use. I have unsweetened almond milk on my granola and as an insulin junkie I don't have to allow for it. Some brands do contain a small amount of carbs but nothing worth bothering about.
 
Been diagnosed about five years I just worried it was having opposite effect
Thank you
 
That's very interesting though all your comments yes it was in the morning my second cup
 
Gimli said:
Hi I've started using almond milk in coffee but noticed its not helping my sugers at all..
7.4 after coffee today
No breakfast either as fasting a few hours.
Last night was only salmon and asparagus motzeralla cheese slice two inches wide flat.
Driving me insane.
Anyone else know if almond milk can drive it up I was under impression it would not hurt only a few carbs
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Hi there Gimli.
I'm so glad you posted this, because I also have spikes after using unsweetened nut milks or soya milk... Especially if using it in coffee. Maybe the combination of the milk and the caffeine???
Anyway, I'm generally OK with good old fashioned cow's milk. The only other milk I can tolerate is unsweetened coconut milk....
Delicious in a latte......
😉
 
AdeleTurner72 said:
Hi there Gimli.
I'm so glad you posted this, because I also have spikes after using unsweetened nut milks or soya milk... Especially if using it in coffee. Maybe the combination of the milk and the caffeine???
Anyway, I'm generally OK with good old fashioned cow's milk. The only other milk I can tolerate is unsweetened coconut milk....
Delicious in a latte......
😉
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It could be that the fat in cow's milk slows down the affects of the caffeine? Just a theory.
 
I drink literally litres of coffee each and every day. Whereas I used to drink it sugar loaded and white in any form, flat white for example and caramel latte, I now only drink it black and unsweetened.
I have been told on numerous occasions that a drop of cows milk should make absolutely no difference as @khskel has previously stated but I have chosen to drink it black out of choice now. Cannot abide almond milk etc in my coffee although again I drink a lot of Unsweetened Alpro Almond with zero effect on my levels.
It is very much an individual thing.
 
Mark Parrott said:
It could be that the fat in cow's milk slows down the affects of the caffeine? Just a theory.
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Yes, very possibly it's due to the fat content, as I get no noticeable rise if I use full fat cow's milk...... I also found when I was experimenting with porridge, that I got an even bigger BG rise after eating porridge made with almond milk than porridge made with semi skimmed cow's milk.... In the end I concluded that porridge wasn't a good breakfast for me anyway and I was better with full fat Greek yoghurt, nuts and berries or eggs and Burgen..... As we keep saying, everyone is different !!! 🙄
 
I stewed my socks after wearing them all week and the water tasted better than unsweetened almond milk. I'm sticking to sockjuice.
 
Brando77 said:
I stewed my socks after wearing them all week and the water tasted better than unsweetened almond milk. I'm sticking to sockjuice.
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:D:D:D
 
I use 170ml almond milk every morning to make my porridge and doesn't seem to effect me x
 
Brando77 said:
I stewed my socks after wearing them all week and the water tasted better than unsweetened almond milk. I'm sticking to sockjuice.
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I’ve just thrown out the carton I bought. Just couldn’t stand it I’m afraid in any form! 😳
 
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