Lucozade

[type1Mam]

Hi. Just to let everyone know that Lucozade has changed to reduce the sugar content, so if you use this to treat hypo's you need to have more (about twice as much).

 

[Robin]

Hi. Just to let everyone know that Lucozade has changed to reduce the sugar content, so if you use this to treat hypo's you need to have more (about twice as much).

Thankyou. If you type 'Lucozade' into the search box at the top right hand corner of the screen, it'll throw up several threads where it's been discussed, and give details of exactly how much sugar they've taken out.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

The really annoying thing is that they didn't change the packaging - not even a 'flash' on it. So it was very hard to see when the stick changed. I'm pretty sure everything is new recipe now though, as the switch was over a month ago.

 

[Simon Fraser]

I suppose that no one has tried the flavoured glucose granules (Personally I tended to the Lime flavoured granules these are sold in sports and some outdoor shops) from sports shops. I admit it can be a bit daunting but I found it useful to use a heaped teaspoon and shovel about ten or twelve into a litre water container purchased from another sport store. Fill that with water then shake it few several minutes to dissolve the granules or stir it with a spoon to dissolve it into the water. To use just add a straw to sip it into your mouth.Such certainly enabled me to recover from hypoglycaemias fairly quickly and now that the bigwigs of Suntory have decreed their policy it might be worth while adopting this method though you'll be paying about £10- £15 for around 500g of the material but that will last you a while (for me around a month but I had a substantial hypo nearly every day at the time while delivering newspapers during the winter months in Glasgow). Of course you should always first discuss this with your medical staff to see their views on the subject before following this as an action.

Further to this, this afternoon Saturday 07-04-18 I found myself experiencing a hypo while walking in Glasgow city centre this afternoon I was fortunate to find a 1litre bottle of Coca Cola which I do not normally use for hypos however it worked quite well with few side effects other than the inevitable rise in my BS at evening meal time so I can at least say that such will function without the need to utilise Lucozade. Looking at some of the other postings it occurs to me that in order to remove the pressure in such a container it should then be stored upright with the plastic screw top loosened as has been mentioned by someone else to allow their Lucozade to 'go flat'.

 

[trophywench]

I stockpiled full sugar Lucozade but I can't have that much left so I will have to find something else to drink - can't chew or swallow easily when hypo. I may not need any at all for a week or two - and then I do - so a small bottle lasts me ages - and I always loosen the top to make it go flat anyway, before screwing it up again, bottle lasts 3 proper hypos or half a dozen + minor lows where one swig is enough - so weeks on end, at least a month usually.

 

[khskel]

Dextro Energy Tabs, have replaced Lucozade for me. Expensive but they are only for hypos.

Two packs for a quid at Home Bargains

 

[mikeyB]

Full fat Coke and 7-up are unchanged in sugar content, and are as unhealthy as ever. Except for those with diabetes. They now both have more sugar by volume than Lucozade.

 

[Alister]

Two packs for a quid at Home Bargains

how many in a pack?
i currently have glucotabs from Asda @ £0.85 for a tube of 10 (not needed them so far 🙂

 

[Davein]

They were talking about this new sugar tax on BBC Breakfast this morning. They read out a message from a type one diabetic who was complaining she would have to pay the extra 22p in tax and wanted all diabetics to be exempt from it. The small amount we as diabetics would have to pay is small compared to the price of not encouraging others to consume less sugars.

 

[Alister]

To my mind fizzy drinks is just the scape goat - eveyone knows they are high sugar & should be avoided. the real villain is ready meals & fast food

just take a look at the ingredients list of many cook-in-sauces for example Seeds of change Organic tomatoe & basil source almost 9G of sugar per 100g (& that is one of the supposed premium makes!)

WTF is sugar even doing on the ingredients list for this?
still it is cheaper & just as quick to make my own from scratch

 

[khskel]

how many in a pack?
i currently have glucotabs from Asda @ £0.85 for a tube of 10 (not needed them so far 🙂

14 in a pack

 

[trophywench]

just take a look at the ingredients list of many cook-in-sauces for example Seeds of change Organic tomatoe & basil source almost 9G of sugar per 100g (& that is one of the supposed premium makes!)

WTF is sugar even doing on the ingredients list for this?

Ah, well .... in my yoof I learned from an Italian who ran a restaurant Of That Ilk, when cooking anything containing both tomatoes and onion (eg Bolognese Sauce, the subject of the actual conversation) the trick was to add 'a scant flat teaspoonful of sugar' to the pan and let it sweat down well with the carrot, onion and tomatoes, to counteract the acidity of the toms. However that amount would not produce 9g of sugar BUT in Mediterranean and further south countries, decent fresh tomatoes should be SUN ripened and hence have a lot more natural fructose than ones grown in more northerly climes and that could be the main 'sugar' content of the packet. Doesn't factually always mean that sugar itself has been added. What was the total CARB content of the packet?

 

[Alister]

Carbs 9G (sugar 8.5)
ingredients list Tomatoes* (72%), Tomato Paste* (12%), Onion*, Sunflower Oil*, Basil* (2.1%), Cane Sugar*, Sea Salt, Parsley*, Lemon Juice Concentrate*, Garlic*, Extra Virgin Olive Oil*, Black Pepper*

The manufactures put it in because they know the brain is programmed to like sweet things so it is a cheap way of making them taste "good"

 

[Simon Fraser]

To my mind fizzy drinks is just the scape goat - eveyone knows they are high sugar & should be avoided. the real villain is ready meals & fast food

just take a look at the ingredients list of many cook-in-sauces for example Seeds of change Organic tomatoe & basil source almost 9G of sugar per 100g (& that is one of the supposed premium makes!)

WTF is sugar even doing on the ingredients list for this?
still it is cheaper & just as quick to make my own from scratch

I suspect that, with the exception of us diabetics, very few people actually take much note of food labelling choosing what they know they like rather than actually calculating their carbohydrate grams/meal perhaps more should actually look at that value and petition their local councillors/MPs to get such detail more prominently displayed on packaging using a red font would make it more prominent. I know last Christmas I found a ready meal in a local M&S store where to be quite blunt there was no carbohydrate listing for the package so as is my wont I spoke to one of the staff their suggesting that someone who needs to know this value in order to calculate the required dose to be eaten would be unable to do so if the detail was not there,obviously someone in M&S had made a boo-boo in allowing such to get onto their shelves.

 

[mikeyB]

I’m astonished that M&S don’t put nutritional info on ready meals. Makes you wonder if they are trying to hide something...