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Changes to Lucozade glucose content

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When I went to a local diabetic group meeting recently, one of the topics that came up,was the fact that Lucozade are reducing sugar in their energy drinks by half, from April. This is a follow up post on their website that people who use lucozade as a hypo treatment may find informative. (I was going to put useful, but it's not going to be very useful if it only contains half as much glucose as it used to!)
http://banbury.diabetesukgroup.org/news/changes-to-lucozade-energy-april-2017
 
i always thought Lucozade got into the bloodstream too slow to fix a hypo anyway
 
Oh no. I use lucozade as my hypo treatment. Glad you posted this Robin, thanks. Will be checking all the bottles I buy in future to calculate how much I'll need to drink now. Or I might change. I don't really wanna be chugging a whole bottle every time I hypo!
 
mikeyB said:
That rather removes the point of Locozade. They haven't done this for health reasons, it's just to avoid sugar tax.

Yes, It's to avoid the sugar tax, other brands and products will follow suit 🙄
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Rosiecarmel said:
Oh no. I use lucozade as my hypo treatment. Glad you posted this Robin, thanks. Will be checking all the bottles I buy in future to calculate how much I'll need to drink now. Or I might change. I don't really wanna be chugging a whole bottle every time I hypo!
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The dietician at the talk pointed out that it has a very long 'best before' date, so stocking up before April might be an idea. (Or converting to jelly babies)
 
Oh BOLLARDS @Robin ! Yup, I'll stockpile this week when we go to Tesco. Has to be orange though! - and I can only drink it flat - too difficult to swallow if it's too fizzy when I'm less than 3, which is why I can't have JBs or anything like that - not that that happens all that often these days - but one mouthful when I'm in the middle 3s, a quick swig does the trick nicely.

(I lose my chewing and swallowing reflexes when I descend more than a tad, always had terrible trouble with Dextrose tabs. I can't be the only one. I also can't bear anything too sweet in my mouth and the acidic orange flavouring does the trick nicely and does make your mouth water, which is excellent at helping the glucose penetrate your inner cheek walls before it even starts down your gullet.)
 
I use Dextrose tabs for preference. I'm due a gastroscopy in a couple of weeks, which means no food from midnight. I use the tabs because they dissolve completely, if my BG goes down while starving. Because its at 11.00, I may just let the annoying dawn phenomenon do the work.
 
I hate Dextrose tabs. They are a brand of them a few years ago Gloco(something) which I preferred and came in a stay fresh tube rather than that stupid foil packet. Not seen them in ages.

When pregnant I would be sick if under 5 and I couldnt eat anything, so only survived on full fat coke, fanta, sprite. This sugar tax is so annoying, they will all avoid it and the government wont even get any money from it!
 
Hi guys

Only just found this out because a friend told me. Naturally I was horrified, having relied on the stuff for 40 odd years. I've emailed the company and virtually begged them to consider retaining just one full-sugar variety for our benefit. I don't know if anyone else has tried this for what it's worth? They did say that they are gathering customer feedback.

In the meantime, does anyone know of alternative drink? For example, is Coke still the same or have they messed with that too? How about Sunny Delight?
 
Mr TEL said:
Hi guys

Only just found this out because a friend told me. Naturally I was horrified, having relied on the stuff for 40 odd years. I've emailed the company and virtually begged them to consider retaining just one full-sugar variety for our benefit. I don't know if anyone else has tried this for what it's worth? They did say that they are gathering customer feedback.

In the meantime, does anyone know of alternative drink? For example, is Coke still the same or have they messed with that too? How about Sunny Delight?
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So far, all the other full sugar drinks are the same however they all will probably be reduced in time, to avoid paying the sugar tax!
 
Fruit juice will always have high sugar content. UHT tetrapacks come in 100, 150 and 200ml volumes, often marketed for children. Would that suit you? Get UHT to avoid need for refrigeration.
 
Nice to meet another one who'd have boiled his pee up in a test tube on a daily basis. What colour was yours this morning? (As I already said, I have an affinity with the colour orange that goes back well pre-diagnosis - so unsurprisingly then - my boiled up pee, matched most times! LOL)
 
trophywench said:
Nice to meet another one who'd have boiled his pee up in a test tube on a daily basis. What colour was yours this morning? (As I already said, I have an affinity with the colour orange that goes back well pre-diagnosis - so unsurprisingly then - my boiled up pee, matched most times! LOL)
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Thank god we've come a long way since then! I was always worried that it would boil over and melt the table. I reckon nine times out of ten the result was wrong anyway. You'll probably remember the blood strips that you had to colour match too. They were never the same colours as those on the tin. What are you using now to sort your hypos?
 
Copepod said:
Fruit juice will always have high sugar content. UHT tetrapacks come in 100, 150 and 200ml volumes, often marketed for children. Would that suit you? Get UHT to avoid need for refrigeration.
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Sounds like a good idea - especially the UHT kind.
 
How about this idea? You buy a packet of glucose powder from the chemists and simply add a couple of spoonfuls to the drink to replace the sugar that they've removed? A little bit of working out and We could get it exactly as it used to be. Or am I being silly?
 
Mr TEL said:
How about this idea? You buy a packet of glucose powder from the chemists and simply add a couple of spoonfuls to the drink to replace the sugar that they've removed? A little bit of working out and We could get it exactly as it used to be. Or am I being silly?
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Sounds good on paper - how do I - or you to be more precise LOL - home test (and remember I chucked the sweet little test tube out long before the old Queen died!) anything that isn't blood, for glucose content? Don't even possess - what were the pee testing strips called? Clinitest strips?

And - still orange flavour, old recipe Lucozade at the mo, Tel.
 
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