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Confused about sugar in food & liquids

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Hi everyone, I'm very new to all this, having just received my type 2 diabetes diagnosis 2 weeks ago.

Can anyone clarify for me what I need to be doing with regards to sugar levels in foods and fluids?

I was told to look at food labels and eat those that "per 100g carbohydrates, of which sugar is less than ..." with the less than figure being in single figures. I am guessing this is the same with fluids that say how much sugar is in each 100 ml.

Does this mean that I can only have foods/fluids in portions whereby the figure in the entire portion/serving doesn't exceed single figures? I have eaten something that was in single figures per 100g, but my serving was more than 100g.

Hope that makes sense!

Many thanks.
Zosema
 
Yes, it makes sense Zosema 🙂 All carbohydrate converts to glucose and therefore will raise blood glucose levels. However, the larger the proportion of the sugar part of the carbs, the faster it will raise your levels, possibly producing what is known as a 'spike'. Thus, the advice you have been given is to steer clear of food with too much sugar per 100g. You can eat more than 100g, it's just a convenient way of comparing different food to see which has the greater proportion of sugar in it 🙂
 
This is where a meter really helps as you can test before the meal, eat it, and then test after it (either 1 hour or 2 hour depend on your point of view) and see how it affected you.

Generally ?Slow? carbohydrate will make you blood glucose rise less then ?Fast/Sugary? carbohydrates ? but you might find that at breakfast times you will get large rises regardless of whether it was fast or slow carbs you consumed. Here the absolute amount of carbs can be important and thus calculating from the label.

It is sometimes useful to calculate roughly how much carbohydrate you are consuming. I did keep a food diary for just over a month where I weighed everything I ate! It's not that much of a nuisance to do.
 
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HI

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