Green Smoothie Insulin

[digihat]

Good Morning Everyone

I was wondering how smoothies work with insulin?. My assumption is that I would tally the carbs up for the Ingredients such as milk veg seeds etc and use my pre bolus time of around 20/25 minutes then drink the smoothie as I would with food normally?

Probably overthinking it as usual just trying to help increase my intake of green veg not a big fan of eating them

Thanks

Tom 🙂

 

[helli]

Carb content calculation is the same regardless of how the food (or drink) is prepared. I am not a smoothie drinker but would happily sup something similar if it was heated up and called "soup" (call me fickle). I would calculate the carbs based on the individual ingredients in the soup.
The only thing you may want to keep an eye on is pre-bolus time. As the food has been broken down it may be digested quicker so you may need to adjust the pre-bolus time. Try it first though. If you are planning on a daily smoothie, you have plenty of opportunity to experiment with timings.

 

[Proud to be erratic]

Although when fibrous foods like vegetables are smoothies the carb content can increase a bit, since those fibres we normally ignore possibly don't flush through but digest as well as the non- fibrous bits. All that said, the chances are the total carb content for most veg is pretty small anyway.

I try to make sure any main meal is more than 30 gms of carbs, so that my brain's needs are met solely from carbs (and 30 is the suggested threshold) and thus any fats and proteins aren't metabolised to meet my brain's demands for that threshold. So in practice the smoothie component is likely to be quite small and if that is not a snack between main meals, then the other carbs would more likely be the main influence for my bolus calculations.

The other thing I would not do for a smoothie is look up retailed smoothies for their nutrition content. If I'm trying to get a sense of what the % carb content is for something new to my diet, I might do this. But I would be wary for smoothies, since there is too much scope for a retailed product to have "extras" to make something more palatable or to improve shelf life.

Hope that makes sense.