Frank's ice cream!!

[Ruth Goode]

I went to Morrisons and came across Frank diabetic ice cream.... hmmmm... I looked at the carbs/sugar and again and again..... its higher than Morrisons own I usually buy for Carly!! So why is it called diabetic ice cream??

 

[Mark T]

I believe because it contains fructose and is essentially low gi.

 

[Steff]

No idea ive never tryed it that was until i visited my type 1 uncle who introduced me to it and it was lovely, ive not gone out and purchased any though 🙂

 

[Ruth Goode]

Im more concerned with higher sugar/carbs! should I?? but I will try it Carly is fine with Morrison's own ice cream as she love to have it with her jelly 🙂

 

[Pumper_Sue]

So why is it called diabetic ice cream??

Perhaps it has diabetes 😛

 

[Mark T]

Perhaps it has diabetes 😛

Special diabetic cows; they are sugar coloured, very fat and are fed on chocolate and cakes.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Special diabetic cows; they are sugar coloured, very fat and are fed on chocolate and cakes.

I used to milk a Jersey herd and one of the cows used to enjoy MY mug of tea and MY afternoon biscuit 😱
Cows do eat cake as well it's called cattle/cow cake

 

[manofkent99]

No idea ive never tryed it that was until i visited my type 1 uncle who introduced me to it and it was lovely, ive not gone out and purchased any though 🙂

Have tried it - it's rubbish! It even tastes sweet. The best I've found is Walls Cream of Cornish Soft Scoop which is only 9% sugar and it really tastes like Cornish Ice Cream. Yummee, yummee!

 

[Mark T]

Oh No! I?m being attacked by my Ice-Cream! 🙄

I was reading one of the articles behind the 600 calorie type 2 diet and there were a couple of interesting bits. One of his hypotheses was that one of the initiators behind type 2 was hepatic insulin resistance.

The idea behind this was that excess calories are stored in the liver as fat. This stored fat causes insulin resistance in the liver. But if you have a genetic tendency this insulin resistance causes the liver to release excess glucose and triglyceride's into the blood. Some of those triglyceride's are absorbed by the pancreas and this causes suppression of insulin secretion (lipotoxicity). Eventually the high BG levels resulting cause non-reversible damage to the pancreas (glucotoxicity).

Now, one of the reasons diabetic ice-creams (Franks) are supposed to be good is that they don?t raise BG because they contain fructose and not glucose. Whereas glucose gets pumped into the blood stream for use by the body, fructose gets carried off to the liver for processing into either glycogen or triglyceride's so doesn't immediately raise BG's.

Oops, that fructose is likely to get stored as triglyceride which raises insulin resistance which?

Of course if it?s eaten when in carb/calorie deficit then it?s more likely to get converted to glycogen.

 

[Northerner]

I'm sure they explain all that on the container Mark 😉 My local supermarket makes people run genetic tests and tests for hepatic insulin resistance and lipotoxicity before they'll sell you anything containing fructose...

 

[wallycorker]

My wife bought some today and I am struggling to work out why it should be diabetic friendly with 19.7g of carbohydrate - 13.8g of which is sugar - per 100g.

It doesn't explain very much on the box - or that matter on the company's website - other than mentioning that they use low glycemic index fructose.

Tasted OK!

 

[Smutmeister]

I think that you're meant to bin the ice cream and eat the box.

 

[Mark T]

...Tasted OK!

Looks OK on my meter as well 🙂 Mind, I tend to only have 20-30g at a time.