Are Caramel snack-a-jacks ok for a prediabetic diet?

[javaxcore]

Asking for a friend

 

[Inka]

Hi @javaxcore It depends on a number of things, an important one being how many you plan to eat. Have you checked the carbs?

 

[Thebearcametoo]

They’re 11g of carbs per rice cake (presuming it’s the big ones not the tiny ones) a slice of medium sliced white bread is around 15-17g of carbs just to give you a comparison.

Having carbs with fat and protein tends to slow down the absorption of carbs which helps the body cope so it depends how many you want to eat and what you want to eat them with.

 

[javaxcore]

Thanks Im new to all this so I don't know, really understand all the in-take stuff I've not even arranged my follow-up appointment yet. Does this mean snack-a-jacks are a bad idea?

 

[Inka]

Thanks Im new to all this so I don't know, really understand all the in-take stuff I've not even arranged my follow-up appointment yet. Does this mean snack-a-jacks are a bad idea?

I refer you to my first answer - it depends how many you eat 🙂 If you’re having a bag of snack a jacks, they’re usually around 13-15g carbs. If you’re eating the jumbo ones, they’re just over 11g. One would be ok but it would depend what else you were eating. If you were aiming to have 4 or 5 jumbo ones then that would probably be too many carbs for your body to deal with at one time.

It’s your overall diet rather than individual foods really. If you need to lose weight, that will help. Taking regular exercise will help too. Reducing the carbs in your diet should help as well, and generally ‘cleaning it up’. A good starting point is to write down a few days of what you ate pre-diagnosis and see how you can improve it. This will usually mean reducing carbs.

 

[notmez]

I personally wouldn't bother even trying them out. The carb content of them might be ok for one but the sugar content is also pretty high. I found them on the sweet side even before I was diagnosed.

1 large caramel ...

___________13g (typical) / per 100g
Carbohydrate 11.3g / 87.0g
of which Sugars 3.6g(4%*) / 28.0g

11g of carbs is ok for a snack but for me it's too high in sugar. It's over 25% sugar. (Full sugar Coke is something like 11g of sugar per 100g)

One bit of info I was advised was to use the traffic lights on the packet and avoid anything high in sugars unless it's a treat. One of the treats I have is chocolate and per 100g even that is closer to 15g of sugar.

I find comparing different things using the per 100 easier.

 

[notmez]

I was going to edit my previous comment but thought this would be better as another comment.

For your snacks are you looking for something sweet?

If you are only asking about snack a jack's but not bothered if it's a sweet snack or not - the salt and vinegar snack-a-jacks are the same carbs (a bit less). But they are nearly no sugar. Per 100g 77g carb 1.1g sugar.

Sour cream flavour is similar carbs but much less sugar too. Per 100g. 76g carb. Of which sugar 2g

Personally I would be happy to eat either one of them as a snack if I was only having 1 and not everyday

 

[Leadinglights]

The traffic light system is not a very good guide for as something can be shown as green because it is low 'sugar' but still very high in carbohydrate.
My example is puffed wheat cereal, which is 0.6g 'sugar' per 100g but a whopping 69.6g carbohydrate per 100g so just looking at the sugar would give a completely wrong impression.
If you want snacks Nature Valley or shop own nut protein bars are less that 10g carb per bar, I think Aldi are only 5g carb.

 

[Loobyloo]

I have a chocolate single one for a treat every now and again and doesnt raise me more than 2 but we are all different.

 

[notmez]

The traffic light system is not a very good guide for as something can be shown as green because it is low 'sugar' but still very high in carbohydrate.

Yes totally agree, I wasn't very clear but I did mean in addition to. I look at the lights and the carbs for any pre packaged food I get