Feel silly asking this

[Kaylz]

Really do feel silly to ask this but just want to make sure, does a piece of fried bread just have the same amount of carbs as if it wasn't fried x

 

[DeusXM]

Should do. Worth noting though it'll have far more calories, and the absorption rate for your blood sugar will be different. The fat will slow it down, but possibly the cooking process will break down some of the starches into sugars, which will be more quickly absorbed.

There are no silly questions when it comes to diabetes and food, other than "is it fine for me to live off Haribo and nothing else?"

 

[Amigo]

That's my understanding too Deus. Certainly advisable not to fry the bread in lard and choose a much 'healthier' form of fat. Not being type 1 and having to measure insulin dosages, I'm not sure what impact this has (if any) on amounts needed however.

'It has long been known that adding fat to a meal will slow down the digestion/absorption of carbohydrates. This is due to a slowdown in gastric emptying – the rate at which food passes from the stomach into the intestines, where the nutrients (such as glucose) are absorbed into the bloodstream. This is why the carbohydrates in high-fat meals tend to take longer to raise the blood glucose level. But the difference is generally an hour or two: Whereas a low-fat meal will raise the blood glucose level quickly (usually within an hour), a high-fat meal may take two to four hours to produce a blood sugar peak.'

 

[Kaylz]

It would be fried in olive oil that's the only thing apart from butter that's used in this house for cooking lol x

 

[Vicsetter]

there is nothing particularly healthy about fried bread. If you are going to eat a high carb item (i presume you would only use white bread) with a lot of fat, making it high calorie, then you should go for flavour and use lard, beef dripping or left over bacon fat. In fact fry your bacon, mop up the fat with fried bread and then put some baked beans in the pan and reduce to a sticky mess, add a fried egg and there you go.

 

[Amigo]

It would be fried in olive oil that's the only thing apart from butter that's used in this house for cooking lol x

Light (rather than extra virgin olive oil) is ok for frying Kaylz but it is generally recommended that for frying at high temps (like trying to get the bread crispy), rapeseed oil is better. I actually find it tastes better for those things too. Olive oil can produce toxins at very high temperatures and is a bit expensive to use for frying.

 

[DeusXM]

Worth noting (as with all accepted wisdom around fats) that lard has somewhat been rehabilitated and is speculated to actually be healthier for frying than vegetable oils - the theory being that vegetable oils, when heated, start to break down into toxic compounds. Lard and butter don't (at least, not at the temperatures you'd encounter in your kitchen).

Lard actually has the third highest amount of monounsaturated fat (theoretically 'good') of any cooking fat/oil - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975 - better than sunflower oil. Not to mention it's very high in vitamin D.

As with all these things though, use what you're comfortable with, and remember there's surprisingly little evidence either way for one fat type being healthier or worse than another.

 

[Amigo]

Worth noting (as with all accepted wisdom around fats) that lard has somewhat been rehabilitated and is speculated to actually be healthier for frying than vegetable oils - the theory being that vegetable oils, when heated, start to break down into toxic compounds. Lard and butter don't (at least, not at the temperatures you'd encounter in your kitchen).

Lard actually has the third highest amount of monounsaturated fat (theoretically 'good') of any cooking fat/oil - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975 - better than sunflower oil. Not to mention it's very high in vitamin D.

As with all these things though, use what you're comfortable with, and remember there's surprisingly little evidence either way for one fat type being healthier or worse than another.

Seems harder on the cholesterol levels though Deus.

'That aside, if you're ready to add lard to your diet, there's an important caveat to its health benefits: Lard that's sold solid at room temperature and doesn't need to be refrigerated does contain trans fat and likely less of the good-for-you vitamin D. Plus, it's not nearly as good for cooking, according to Martinez, who says commercial lard is "like poison."

 

[Mark Parrott]

They were cooking with lard on Sugar Free Farm on TV. Seems to be accepted that it's not as bad as originally thought. I still can't bring myself to use it, though. As for the fried bread, it's that lethal combo of high carb & high fat. I would keep it as a very occasional treat. I'm not on insulin, but I would imagine it is difficult to calculate fried bread due to it's delayed release. I would find it difficult, but that's because I would be useless on insulin.🙄

 

[DeusXM]

Seems harder on the cholesterol levels though Deus.

That depends on whether or not you accept the arguement that saturated fat is bad for cholesterol levels. Don't forget, the single biggest source of blood cholesterol is what is produced by your liver - which produces more cholesterol when your insulin levels are high. Fat is the only macronutrient that doesn't increase your blood sugar which means it's the only macronutrient that doesn't lead to higher insulin levels....which by a process of logic means the greater the proportion of your calorie intake from fat, the lower your cholesterol will be.

I know 'everyone's different' but my diet is pretty high in fat and low in carbohydrate, and my triglyceride levels and HDL/LDL split are far more healthy than they were when I ate less fat. Note: I'm not trying to push a LCHF diet at all, just challenging the idea that 'sat fat is bad' is a proven fact.