Marmalade!

[Flakie]

Hi. An opinion please - I started the day at 6.9 which is my best yet had two slices of Hovis low carb bread, toasted with a bit of marge and added about a teaspoonful of marmalade to give it a bit of taste. Two hours later my reading was 12! I’ve had the bread before with no spike, so could it really have been the marmalade? Just that little bit?!! Then just before lunch it was back down to 5.6.

 

[Greymouser]

I would get the same with jam, so probably yes. I used to love peanut butter and jam too.

 

[Ljc]

Hi. An opinion please - I started the day at 6.9 which is my best yet had two slices of Hovis low carb bread, toasted with a bit of marge and added about a teaspoonful of marmalade to give it a bit of taste. Two hours later my reading was 12! I’ve had the bread before with no spike, so could it really have been the marmalade? Just that little bit?!! Then just before lunch it was back down to 5.6.

The marmalade is probably the culprit.

 

[Flakie]

That’s amazing! And annoying! I do find the bread a bit dry as it’s the wholemeal one I use. Breakfast is my biggest problem I have to admit. I do miss my cornflakes. And you can only eat so many eggs! What do you have?

 

[Ljc]

I would get the same with jam, so probably yes. I used to love peanut butter and jam too.

Oh yes , peanut butter n jam sarnies were so yum. I still have peanut butter though

 

[Ljc]

That’s amazing! And annoying! I do find the bread a bit dry as it’s the wholemeal one I use. Breakfast is my biggest problem I have to admit. I do miss my cornflakes. And you can only eat so many eggs! What do you have?

Do you like peanut butter ? I usually buy Sunpat no added sugar.

 

[Flakie]

I must admit Ive never really been into it but we have it in as my hubby likes it. I like peanuts though so I will get some of the NAS type and try it. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Heaps of sugar goes into marmalade, even though it still tastes bitter. I'm usually happy with Burgen toast & butter. I butter it straight out of the toaster so it soaks in & isn't too dry. Sometimes I have mackerel in tomato sauce too. Wife hates the smell of fish, so I don't have it regularly.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I'm not sure. I don't think it works out. If a teaspoon of jam/marmalade was 5-10g and was, say, 70% sugar (the stuff on my fridge is 60% sugar) that'd only be 3.5-7g of carbs tops.

The 2 slices of bread would total significantly more in terms of carbohydrate, even though low carb. Plus you will more than likely have some (slightly variable) glucose production of your own going on - glucose released from the liver to fire up the burners.

If you found the marmalade nice I would check again at least once or twice more. Perhaps only having one slice of toast one time too before you give up on it.

 

[Flakie]

Good advice. I’ll have it another day and see what happens. Bit of a minefield all this isn’t it?!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Good advice. I’ll have it another day and see what happens. Bit of a minefield all this isn’t it?!

Never a truer word! the thing is, at the end of the day, this is biology, not maths - with all sorts of conflicting and contributing variables. All we can do is try to work out what generally works most of the time. Any results need checking a couple of times at least.

 

[Copepod]

Always worth considering whether any marmalade is still on fingers when testing blood glucose levels. If you're as messy as me, washing hands after eating jam or marmalade is vital!

 

[Wirrallass]

Hi Flakie ~ I like a smidge of marmalade on a slice of toasted Burgen too ~ but when I attended a Diabetes Educational Programme, the dietician advised to buy chunky thick cut marmalade that had lots of orange peel in. There's more peel on my toast than marmalade these days ~ and my BG doesn't spike more than 0.4

 

[Flakie]

Thanks copepod - I give my hands a good wash but might have missed a bit! And thanks for the advice Wirralass- will have a look.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Actually, I might try some marmalade now.

 

[Wirrallass]

Actually, I might try some marmalade now.

Only a smidge now Mark ~ let us know if you spike & by how much🙂

 

[Wirrallass]

Heaps of sugar goes into marmalade, even though it still tastes bitter. I'm usually happy with Burgen toast & butter. I butter it straight out of the toaster so it soaks in & isn't too dry. Sometimes I have mackerel in tomato sauce too. Wife hates the smell of fish, so I don't have it regularly.

I recall you posting way back that your wifey doesn't enjoy the smell of fish & you were asking for ideas to disguise the unpleasant odour. Remember? I gave you duff info🙄 sorry about that!

 

[khskel]

Marmite for me.

 

[weecee]

Maybe try a weight watchers no added sugar one and compare readings.

 

[Greymouser]

I had some bread tonight, two slices of high protein bread with Margarine on. I found surprisingly that they raised my bs higher than I expected, which is a shame. Only the second time I have had bread since July and not missed too much. So maybe the bread was more the culprit. ( I went from 5.8 to 8.3. ) Of course it could have been the mushy peas that caused it I guess, though peas do not usually affect me much.