Fruit or no fruit

[Felinia]

As some of you know I have been querying the advice I was given by my dietician about never having fruit with meals, which was also on their website. I have now received clarification, which bears out what members on this forum have been saying all along.
" you should be having 3 portions of fruit a day, but only 1 portion as a snack as, (as you mentioned), for people with diabetes it is best to eat with other foods in order to prevent it spiking your blood sugar. So I think the advice should have been to usually eat fruit as part of a meal and as a piece of fruit for a one off on it's own as snack."
I have suggested that I was not the only person who thought as I did, so the website should be amended to make it clearer. Hopefully now the end of discussion, and I'm having strawberries for pudding.

 

[SB2015]

Thanks for this clarification @Felinia.

That seems to make a lot more sense, as the fruit eaten alone is very likely to spike blood sugar levels, whereas when it is buried in amongst other foods it will raise the blood glucose more slowly which gives the pancreas, or injected insulin, more chance of controlling the rise.

 

[Nick Cliff]

I concur. Have always understood that fruit is OK in small amounts eaten with or after savoury. But only fruits which aren't overly sweet. .which I class strawberries as..so it's raspberries of blueberries plus apple and occasional citrus.
Decent restaurants will usually do a fresh fruit salad so I ask for this when dining out with friends. They often look on enviously as they devour their bog standard sticky toffee pudding or tiramisu.
Enjoy your strawberries!

 

[Drummer]

Well - as I know that there are fruits which are not recognised as such, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, I am probably eating one or two servings of fruit a day, and on some days could be having three - but all low carb - I simply cannot cope with sweet fruits - my meter told me so every time I tested.
If the advice is obviously untested and just someone's opinion rather than a sure and certain safe way to eat, I will not be following it.

 

[Nick Cliff]

To be clearer I meant I avoid strawberries as being too sweet.
Can only speak from my experience.
As has been pointed out on other threads we are all different and what works for me might be bad for someone else.
So please bear that in mind when reading my comments.
Cheers. Nick

 

[Ljc]

Personally Diabetes wise I don’t see the point in cutting out things your body deals with well. Imo if your glucose meter shows that this or that is tolerated well , then go ahead and enjoy it ( eat to your meter)

At one time I only tolerated berries well, that has changed now providing my BG is no higher than the low 6s
I can eat a large bowl of strawberries ,I’ve akways got frozen ones , a nice juicy pear or an apple without the need for @ny additional insulin and my Libre graph shows only a minute blip. I mostly have them as a snack if I feel peckish.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

That makes a lot more sense, @Felinia - and I hope you enjoy your strawberries 🙂

I don't think I've ever (post-diabetes) eaten strawberries without a hypo - they are much more low carb than any other fruit I eat, so I always expect them to need more insulin than they do!

 

[Eddy Edson]

Glad you got that sorted -- it was bugging me!

 

[ajax]

I eat a napple after my lunchtime sandwich from Monday through to Thursday ..today's blueberry Friday ..apparently a diabetes ✻superfood✻

Excessively sugary fruit ..mango, grape, cherry, etc ..strictly no-go ..strawberry is too posh for the likes of me.

I'm in my mid-sixties and consider food ✻in the round✻ ..the free bowel cancer screening kit I'm sent ..reminds me of the importance of fruit in my diet ..life throws curveballs, as it were.

 

[nonethewiser]

Eat fruit every day, life would be dull without it.

 

[Felinia]

I enjoyed all 5 strawberries yesterday lol!!! Apples sent my BG right up so I avoid them, and also all acidic fruit - but that's because of my hiatus hernia. If it's not one thing it's another!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Glad you got this follow-up Felinia, thanks for challenging it and I hope the website is changed to prevent future confusion.

Particularly if people are being told to just follow advice and not check their own BG 🙄 - so it’s even more important that the advice is correct, and applies to as many people as possible

 

[emmgeo]

I eat at least two to three pieces of fruit a day, apples, pears, strawberries, oranges, blueberries, even a banana now and then. as long as I eat them after a meal or a sandwich dosen't realy spike my bloods.

 

[Pine Marten]

We generally have fruit - permutation of raspberries/blueberries/blackberries/strawberries with the occasional half a banana each - with cream after evening dinner. I rarely have fruit on its own. I very rarely might have a kiwi fruit after lunch. Seems to work.

And as @Drummer says tomatoes and cucumber are fruits, so I eat those most days too.

 

[Browser]

I’m fine with most fruit. It never ceases to surprise me that watermelon is,apparently, the diabetics worst fructose enemy.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I’m fine with most fruit. It never ceases to surprise me that watermelon is,apparently, the diabetics worst fructose enemy.

It sure seems to be for me - who knows why??? I'm fine with most other fruit, these days.

 

[Drummer]

I am, it seems, the canary in the coalmine when it comes to fructose, or any carbs to be honest.
30 gm of carbs from bread and my BG is over 10 mmol/l, though the same amount from vegetables or salad and a small serving of berries and it is at least three points lower.
That is why we need to check the actual number, not just think that it is safe to eat something which someone else can cope with.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

I’m fine with most fruit. It never ceases to surprise me that watermelon is,apparently, the diabetics worst fructose enemy.

Really? That's surprising - for me any kind of melon means reduced insulin (compared with a banana or some grapes, which is what I normally eat with my lunch) or I hypo.

Which just shows again that we are all different!

 

[merrymunky]

I used to eat a huge amount of fruit and sadly most of it was the real sweet stuff like grapes, melon and mango. I used to have a huge bowl of fruit salad before comprising of grapes, strawberries, raspberries, melon, mango and passion fruit for breakfast. This was before diagnosis. Great for slimming world but lord only knows how high it was spiking me.

Now I stick to strawberries, raspberries and clementines mostly.

 

[Ljc]

I used to eat loads of fruit too , grapes, oranges melon, plums and bananas, a nana sarnie was a favourite 😱 . I also used to have nana in porridge or with cornflakes 😱😱
I won’t tell you what I used to do with a nana , peanut butter and some honey 😱😱😱😱😱😱