Mystery ingredient...or just sugar?

[Lurch]

I don't normally have yogurt, but today I decided to roll the boat out for my first diabetic christmas and lay off my only daily wheat intake --- a 20g bowl of Bran Flakes with 50 ml milk--- (this faithfully spikes me 1.6 and I don't have it before noon as I have egg for breakfast to avoid early carbs).

In place of the Bran Flakes I had some locally available very low fat plain yogurt called Dairy Farm (100g gives <5g CHO) and added about 80g of sliced apple (approx 10g CHO). I tested before and after and found I'd spiked 2.5 in an hour, higher than the wheat.

Apple is low GL etc. so must have been the Dairy Farm plain yogurt, no? Tub says 100g gives 38 kcals: 4g protein, 4.8g carb and 0.3g fat, which accounts for all the cals with nothing hidden. Presumably all 5g carb is sugar? (the yogurt tasted deceptively far less sweet than the bran flakes).

Would 5g sugar be the cause of a 2.5 spike? Guess it would. So much for thinking I was eating something less perky than the sugared wheat. There's an art more than a science to managing spiking.😱

 

[Copepod]

When you say "locally available", where is local? I'm guessing you are out of UK just now? Perhaps somewhere with a different climate? While the difference in spikes isn't huge, I wonder if its explanation is more down to other changes than to food intake?

I seem to remember seeing a brand of dairy products called Dairy Farmers in Australia and exported to SE Asia.

 

[Lurch]

When you say "locally available", where is local? I'm guessing you are out of UK just now? Perhaps somewhere with a different climate?

Sadly no. 🙂 Overcast and cold here in Midlands. But not as bad as some are having.

The Dairy Farm yogurt is made by Hi-Gate Dairies out of Birmingham. I was lost for choice at the local store and wanted something plain and simple.

My pre-meal reading was 5.5, which now seems standard for me (being new at this). When I saw the 8 (my max to try to avoid is 7.7 and i usually do) I hit the exercise bike and brought it down to 5.6. I'm trying to use fear to get off to a good start

 

[Copepod]

Exercise bike can be great for reducing blood glucose levels - although I prefer a bike or walk or run outdoors 🙂

That'll teach me to think exotic, before the obvious - Hi Gate dairy is based in Coventry, if I remember right from teenage years in Birmingham and more recent occasional work days in Coventry.

In general, I find supermarket budget 500g pots of plain yogurt are low fat and low sugar, and suit me for breakfast - I add as much or as little muesli or whatever fruit I have to hand, depending on previous blood glucose level and what I'm planning for the morning. Obviously, I can adjust insulin doses, too, but sometimes prefer to use diet or exercise like you. Currently working my way through a bag of reduced price short date pears and waiting for some bananas to ripen to optimum degree 🙂