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I was thinking exactly that about Kath's diabetes myself - there are carbs in mushrooms - a cup cooked possibly 8 -10g (shitake are more though) but virtually none in either eggs or cheese. Now I know if I ate 10g of carb without any insulin (cos I don't produce any) it would add 3.0 to my pre-meal reading - so even though I realise T2 doesn't work the same as T1 (IR, metabolic differences and all sorts of other subtle nuances) - your pre and post test result differences just don't sound 'right'.
I was thinking exactly that about Kath's diabetes myself - there are carbs in mushrooms - a cup cooked possibly 8 -10g (shitake are more though) but virtually none in either eggs or cheese. Now I know if I ate 10g of carb without any insulin (cos I don't produce any) it would add 3.0 to my pre-meal reading - so even though I realise T2 doesn't work the same as T1 (IR, metabolic differences and all sorts of other subtle nuances) - your pre and post test result differences just don't sound 'right'.
Mushrooms absorb a loy of fat when frying, so 120g of fried mushrooms will be much less than 120g of mushrooms, mmuch of the weight will be the butter, and they will have rounded down.
I didn't mean to do more than point out the problem of taking the statement at face value.
The reason for the discrepancy is probably:
A). Rounding down (in the case of the fried mushrooms but not in the case of the raw ones).
Or B). Not comparing the same variety of mushrooms.
Or C). Not comparing the same weight of mushrooms. e.g. carbs in 120gm raw mushroom (rounded down) may be 1gm, but 100gms might be just less than 1gm - so rounded down would be 0gms.
Some of these figures can be tricky when you get down to very small amounts of carbs, for example with fruit it varies by variety of the fruit and also by the ripeness.
I didn't mean to do more than point out the problem of taking the statement at face value.
The reason for the discrepancy is probably:
A). Rounding down (in the case of the fried mushrooms but not in the case of the raw ones).
Or B). Not comparing the same variety of mushrooms.
Or C). Not comparing the same weight of mushrooms. e.g. carbs in 120gm raw mushroom (rounded down) may be 1gm, but 100gms might be just less than 1gm - so rounded down would be 0gms.
Some of these figures can be tricky when you get down to very small amounts of carbs, for example with fruit it varies by variety of the fruit and also by the ripeness.
I was querying @trophywench comment, in relation to an omelette, there are carbs in mushrooms - a cup cooked possibly 8 -10g (shitake are more though), which surprised me.
I was querying @trophywench comment, in relation to an omelette, there are carbs in mushrooms - a cup cooked possibly 8 -10g (shitake are more though), which surprised me.
Personally I don't worry about mushrooms. They are low carb and that's the important thing. 2-3% difference in figures is neither here nor there and is not going to cause the OP's BG levels to increase by 4-5mmols from the few in a mushroom omelette.
