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Peach Tea

jwilkinson65 said:
Hi all, just wondered if type 2 diabetics should drink Liptons Peach Iced Tea or M&S Iced Teas??
Thanks
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Neither look very good as they are quite high carb, Liptons 10g carbs per 330ml can and the M&S one 11g carbs per 150ml bottle.
Better to look for a drink with 0 carbs, eg sparkling or still flavoured water or diet drinks. You could make your own fruit tea from the selection of fruit tea bags.
 
Leadinglights said:
Neither look very good as they are quite high carb, Liptons 10g carbs per 330ml can and the M&S one 11g carbs per 150ml bottle.
Better to look for a drink with 0 carbs, eg sparkling or still flavoured water or diet drinks. You could make your own fruit tea from the selection of fruit tea bags.
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Thank you x
 
Pollyanna said:
Hi ...I make my own using Stevia instead of sugar.
A pot of tea using 3 tea bags and two peeled chopped peaches cooked in a mug of water with 1-2 teaspoons of Stevia makes a lovely peach tea. �
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How many cups does that make you as 2 peaches would be about 22g carbs.so still quite high for a drink.
 
Leadinglights said:
How many cups does that make you as 2 peaches would be about 22g carbs.so still quite high for a drink.
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Forgive me for my curiosity.
My understanding is that people with diabetes tolerate different carbs differently but yet your comment suggests that all carbs are bad.
In the past, I have read the suggestion to test to find out what your body tolerates and than decide whether the benefit you get out of food, meal, drink is worth the BG rise. The benefits too vary from person to person. As do the ability for the person to need to go "cold turkey" or enjoy something occasionally and how much is consumed at a time.
So my question is why your comments suggest peach tea should be avoided rather than testing the impact it has on the OP's BG before making the decision?
 
helli said:
Forgive me for my curiosity.
My understanding is that people with diabetes tolerate different carbs differently but yet your comment suggests that all carbs are bad.
In the past, I have read the suggestion to test to find out what your body tolerates and than decide whether the benefit you get out of food, meal, drink is worth the BG rise. The benefits too vary from person to person. As do the ability for the person to need to go "cold turkey" or enjoy something occasionally and how much is consumed at a time.
So my question is why your comments suggest peach tea should be avoided rather than testing the impact it has on the OP's BG before making the decision?
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It was just that if the OP was thinking that a home made peach tea would be lower in carbs that the branded ones mentioned then they would need to take that into consideration, I wasn't suggesting they shouldn't have it but be sure it was OK for them. That is why I asked how many cups/glasses it made.
I was perhaps a bit brief in my comment.
 
Leadinglights said:
How many cups does that make you as 2 peaches would be about 22g carbs.so still quite high for a drink.
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5-6 depending on how strong and size of cup.
Peaches are excellent for diabetics....it's not always about carbs.
Peaches are low GI and are high fibre so digest slowly...but people react differently to different fruits. I can eat grapes with little or
no spike but give me melon and am in willy wonker land.
I don't drink the branded ones and never have. My gran always made it when we were kids but with sugar....using Stevia was my real point I guess in order to not consume sugar, I can munch my way through peaches with no problems.
 
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Pollyanna said:
5-6 depending on how strong and size of cup.
Peaches are excellent for diabetics....it's not always about carbs.
Peaches are low GI and are high fibre so digest slowly...but people react differently to different fruits. I can eat grapes with little or
no spike but give me melon and am in willy wonker land.
I don't drink the branded ones and never have. My gran always made it when we were kids but with sugar....using Stevia was my real point I guess in order to not consume sugar, I can munch my way through peaches with no problems.
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Good morning

Could I use sugar free fruit juice instead?

Thanks
 
Hi....good morning
I guess you could ...one of the others may know more re that as I don't do much in the way of using convenience foods. My concerns would be what type and how much sweetener, and presumably preservatives, they use.
My friend uses tinned peaches in spring water for her tea
 
Sodastream do a Lipton Peach Tea syrup which you dilute with water obviously.
I think you can buy it and just use it with normal water so might be an idea. I think one syrup bottle makes around 9 litres so worth having in if it's something you like a lot. Can always adjust the amounts used or dilute more to make it last longer.
 

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jwilkinson65 said:
Could I use sugar free fruit juice instead?
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I’d be cautious of that unless you can check the results with BG meter to see how your body responds. Lots of T1s use natural fruit juices as a hypo treatment as they increase their blood glucose levels very rapidly.

With diabetes it’s often a case of experimenting and seeing how something works for you as an individual 🙂
 
Pollyanna said:
5-6 depending on how strong and size of cup.
Peaches are excellent for diabetics....it's not always about carbs.
Peaches are low GI and are high fibre so digest slowly...but people react differently to different fruits. I can eat grapes with little or
no spike but give me melon and am in willy wonker land.
I don't drink the branded ones and never have. My gran always made it when we were kids but with sugar....using Stevia was my real point I guess in order to not consume sugar, I can munch my way through peaches with no problems.
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It is a bit of a sweeping statement to say that peaches are good for diabetics just as it would be a sweeping statement to say they are bad for diabetics. As you acknowledge it can be quite individual as to how individual people with diabetes respond to different foods. Low GI isn't a guarantee of slow release for any given individual either. The classic example is porridge which is so often recommended as a good choice because it is supposedly slow release, but there are a good few of us on this forum who find it acts like rocket fuel on our levels even best jumbo oats made with water and cream added.
Your peach tea sounds like it will be mostly the flavour and sugars from the peaches that are drawn into the hot water by diffusion (or is it osmosis) but very little of the fibre which you quite rightly mention is a beneficial part of the fruit, unless I am misunderstanding how you make your peach tea. So you are mostly just getting flavour and carbs from the peach in the water but very little of the fibre.
 
jwilkinson65 said:
Good morning

Could I use sugar free fruit juice instead?

Thanks
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Do you mean unsweetened fruit juice or do you mean sugar free squash... ie the stuff that comes in a bottle that you dilute?
 
helli said:
Forgive me for my curiosity.
My understanding is that people with diabetes tolerate different carbs differently but yet your comment suggests that all carbs are bad.
In the past, I have read the suggestion to test to find out what your body tolerates and than decide whether the benefit you get out of food, meal, drink is worth the BG rise. The benefits too vary from person to person. As do the ability for the person to need to go "cold turkey" or enjoy something occasionally and how much is consumed at a time.
So my question is why your comments suggest peach tea should be avoided rather than testing the impact it has on the OP's BG before making the decision?
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Some - like me have yet to find any carb which is not digested and drawn into my blood stream so fast it must feel dizzy.
I drink flavoured fizzy water and sugar free squash, various teas and coffees - but no source carbs is ignored by my gut.
 
rebrascora said:
It is a bit of a sweeping statement to say that peaches are good for diabetics just as it would be a sweeping statement to say they are bad for diabetics. As you acknowledge it can be quite individual as to how individual people with diabetes respond to different foods. Low GI isn't a guarantee of slow release for any given individual either. The classic example is porridge which is so often recommended as a good choice because it is supposedly slow release, but there are a good few of us on this forum who find it acts like rocket fuel on our levels even best jumbo oats made with water and cream added.
Your peach tea sounds like it will be mostly the flavour and sugars from the peaches that are drawn into the hot water by diffusion (or is it osmosis) but very little of the fibre which you quite rightly mention is a beneficial part of the fruit, unless I am misunderstanding how you make your peach tea. So you are mostly just getting flavour and carbs from the peach in the water but very little of the fibre.
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Ok...well, it's on many lists as being a good choice of fruit.
And I pointed out that I'm fine with grapes but not melon ...maybe I should have gone into detail about how I spent 6 months going into an almost remission by constantly testing and have maintained that for 6 years.
And by the way ...I do consume the fibre....I add it to live yoghurt for breakfast.
 
Pollyanna said:
Ok...well, it's on many lists as being a good choice of fruit.
And I pointed out that I'm fine with grapes but not melon ...maybe I should have gone into detail about how I spent 6 months going into an almost remission by constantly testing and have maintained that for 6 years.
And by the way ...I do consume the fibre....I add it to live yoghurt for breakfast.
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It just highlights how individual managing the condition is. No hard and fast rules other than you can never really know how well you tolerate a particular food other than by testing and even then it can change over time.
 
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