Dark chocolate brazil nuts

[Heathsnack31]

How many dark chocolate brazil nut are we allowed as snack for type 1 diabetics?

 

[Leadinglights]

How many dark chocolate brazil nut are we allowed as snack for type 1 diabetics?

I'm not sure 'we' comes into it as everybody will be different in what they will tolerate with or without the need to inject insulin for their 'snack'

 

[trophywench]

Haven't had one for donkeys years, haven't seen any for sale. Whole natural nuts appear to have 10 to 12g carb per 100g weight so not very much each but of course the carb in the choc coating will depend as to how much sugar, glucose syrup and other sweetening stuff they put in it and how thick that is. I need 1u insulin per 10g carb except that reduces to 1u per 9g carb in the evening. When I was diagnosed 50+ years ago they did used to tell us we could eat up to 10g max of carbs without extra insulin between meals but I just try not to snack as I find it gets out of hand so I'm eating more carbs in snacks than I am with meals and simply - put on weight which is no good to me. No way do I ever wish anybody to have to return to the regime of that time - they've completely stopped producing porcine insulin for starters and neither do I want the only way of testing my BG between HbA1c tests, to be boiling up my morning wee in a test tube!

Get the carb count from the manufacturer, and do the maths based on your own insulin to carb ratio.

 

[Inka]

How many dark chocolate brazil nut are we allowed as snack for type 1 diabetics?

We’re allowed as many as we want! If you eat vast quantities you might need a little insulin to cover them, but Type 1s can eat a pretty much normal diet with appropriate use of insulin.

 

[Inka]

…they've completely stopped producing porcine insulin for starters

Porcine insulin is still available @trophywench and is used by a number of people who can’t tolerate human insulins or analogues, or who simply prefer it.

 

[SB2015]

How many dark chocolate brazil nut are we allowed as snack for type 1 diabetics?

As many as you want so long as you cover the carbs with the necessary insulin.
I love these and try to have one after a meal, but that is difficult as once I have had one, I want another.
I have them as treat every now and then.

 

[trophywench]

…they've completely stopped producing porcine insulin for starters

Porcine insulin is still available @trophywench and is used by a number of people who can’t tolerate human insulins or analogues, or who simply prefer it.

Memory clearly faded there Inka, it's bovine they stopped making. But anyway as I discovered for myself long ago, sometimes where insulin is concerned, same as blood pressure medication and no doubt drugs for other conditions - sometimes you just have to keep on kissing different frogs until you find one that turns into a prince for you personally - and even though Oh yes it certainly does become tedious to keep on repeating this medical experiment on yourself - one day the fairy tale does come true, and you really do find your personal prince!

Think it was Oscar Wilde who told people that it was often better to travel hopefully, than to arrive! and so I've frequently found both metaphorically (as with insulin and BP drugs) and literally when actually physically travelling - so you enjoy the journey on the way to wherever but find you are a bit disappointed with the destination itself.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Used to love ‘just brazils’ as a kid.

Some people say that a 10g carbs snack doesn‘t warrant a bolus, but I’ve never had great results with that approach unless my BG is trending down or I’ve a bit too much iob for whatever reason…

Plus, on a pump an extra bolus is only a couple of button presses 🙂

 

[rebrascora]

I think the 10g snack advice at diagnosis may be because many of us are within the honeymoon period when we still have some/enough endogenous production to mop up 10g and it is probably to discourage newbies from injecting for snacks in between meals or having larger snacks until DSNs can assess and tweak basal doses..... rather than a life long rule.
I certainly can't get away with 10g carbs without injecting insulin now unless I have exercised or my basal dose is too high.