Mcdonalds Apple and grape bag made me feel ill

[cupoftea]

Hi, hope you are good.
Well, I am type 2.
Have given up cakes and chocs and puddings.
Yesterday i had two mcdonalds apple bags....i had difficulty sleeping, and felt sick all today.

Mcdonalds apple bag

Apple & Grape Fruit Bag

www.mcdonalds.com

It says 10 grams of sugar....does that mean somebody has added 10g of the "white stuff"?...or it has 10g of natural sugar like fructose?

 

[harbottle]

I believe Apples have a number of different types of sugar in them, but most is fructose.
Grapes have both.
Fructose is metabolized in a different way to 'normal' sugars (Metabolized as fat.)

 

[Robin]

Hi, hope you are good.
Well, I am type 2.
Have given up cakes and chocs and puddings.
Yesterday i had two mcdonalds apple bags....i had difficulty sleeping, and felt sick all today.

Mcdonalds apple bag

Apple & Grape Fruit Bag

www.mcdonalds.com

It says 10 grams of sugar....does that mean somebody has added 10g of the "white stuff"?...or it has 10g of natural sugar like fructose?

The total carbs for one bag is 10g, and the sugar is 10g. From the weight, I would assume the sugars are what is naturally in the fruit and not added sugar. If you had two packs, though, that’s 20g of natural sugars, which will still give you as big a hit as if you ate 20g of granulated sugar. Fibre in the fruit might slow it down a bit, but in my experience, fruit gets processed into glucose in the bloodstream fairly quickly.
(I know apples are supposed to be mainly fructose, @harbottle, but they still somehow spike my blood sugars.)

 

[Inka]

Perhaps they were off? It might be that rather than your blood sugar.

 

[Tdm]

Mine too

 

[rebrascora]

What else did you have with these fruit bags from McDs? Ie. Did you also have a burger and fries? Hopefully not a McFlurry 😱 The reason I ask is that the carbs in the bun with the burger and the fries will amount to far more than the 20g carbs in the two fruit bags. Savoury carbs count just the same as sweet ones when it comes to diabetes, so bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc as well as breakfast cereals and yes fruit can all cause your BG levels to spike, so it isn't just about avoiding the cakes, sweets and puddings I am afraid. Many of us find grapes are one of the fruits which are particularly challenging for our diabetes along with bananas and mangos. Berries are the lowest carb and therefore usually safest option but portion control is still important and the fact that you had two packs suggests that you had a double portion. That might be fine if you had nothing else at that mealtime but on top of other carbs like a burger and fries, that is likely to cause you problems if you are Type 2.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

Oddly, (out of character I
ordered a McD’s .late morning.) I went for a sausage egg muffin the other day. Don’t normally do breakfast, more. a brunch.& needed a coffee. No milk.
Bolusing for the carbs from my google. But I was offered this “Apple grape bag thing ” on the tap & order prepayment? (Which I declined. As a T1 I’ve actually fixed hypos with a few grapes in the past. (Fructose.) it isn’t a traditional hospital gift for nothing.

 

[Leadinglights]

If you had not had those bags of fruit before it could have been the preservative that they had on them that you reacted to.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

If you had not had those bags of fruit before it could have been the preservative that they had on them that you reacted to.

What preservative do they use?
There is nothing mentioned in the nutritional information.