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Welcome to the forum @massspec
It isn’t really the sugar content that you need to focus on so much as the total carbohydrate. All carbohydrates are broken down into
glucose in the bloodstream, and the body doesn’t really mind that much whether it’s a simpler sugar, or a longer chain starch, it just breaks those chains down into glucose for absorption.
So just look on the pack for carbohydrates per 100g, and if you want to be very precise weigh a portion.
Beware any of those crunchy coated ones though! they are much higher carb.
It isn’t really the sugar content that you need to focus on so much as the total carbohydrate. All carbohydrates are broken down into
glucose in the bloodstream, and the body doesn’t really mind that much whether it’s a simpler sugar, or a longer chain starch, it just breaks those chains down into glucose for absorption.
So just look on the pack for carbohydrates per 100g, and if you want to be very precise weigh a portion.
Beware any of those crunchy coated ones though! they are much higher carb.
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Just checked, and a 30 ‘serving’ (a good handful) is 1.7g of carbs
Which means if you have a couple or three handfuls you’ll be eating a sugar cube’s worth of carbs.
Which means if you have a couple or three handfuls you’ll be eating a sugar cube’s worth of carbs.
Hi masspec,
Unfotunately for us diabetics, nearly everything contains Carbohydrates except: Meat, Fish, Cheese, Butter, Eggs, leafy green veg.
So unless you go carnivore you will be eating some carbs. We all have a diffeent tolerance to both specific carbs and to total carbs, so those of us taking it seriously have tested which foods are OK for us by testing before & then 2hrs after meals with a BG meter.
T2 's in the UK usually have to buy their own BG meter and test strips. The strips are the biggest expense since initially we get through a lot of them - so go for a meter with cheap(er) test strips, they are around £8 for 50 for the SD Guco navii and for the Spirit TEE2+
Unfotunately for us diabetics, nearly everything contains Carbohydrates except: Meat, Fish, Cheese, Butter, Eggs, leafy green veg.
So unless you go carnivore you will be eating some carbs. We all have a diffeent tolerance to both specific carbs and to total carbs, so those of us taking it seriously have tested which foods are OK for us by testing before & then 2hrs after meals with a BG meter.
T2 's in the UK usually have to buy their own BG meter and test strips. The strips are the biggest expense since initially we get through a lot of them - so go for a meter with cheap(er) test strips, they are around £8 for 50 for the SD Guco navii and for the Spirit TEE2+
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Hi @masspec, a quick check on t'interweb gives peanuts as 16% carbs, that is 16g in 100g. That's a bit higher than @everydayupsanddowns number which tells you something about carb content numbers - you get different values from different sources. I think you can eat peanuts but not by the great big bagfull as an extra, you need to work them into your diet as a whole.
My approach is to work on a daily target for carbohydrate intake and think about the total amount I am eating rather than the carb components of every item and worrying about whether I should eat them or not. So for lunch today I had soup and salad and with the salad, I had some crackers containing (according to the packet) about 20g of carbohydrate. If I fancied some peanuts with my lunch I would have swapped a few handfuls for the crackers and that way would have enjoyed the peanuts but kept to my target carb consumption.
By the way, forget sugar content. As far as your system is concerned sugar is just another carbohydrate and so it is the total carbohydrate you should be always be looking for.
My approach is to work on a daily target for carbohydrate intake and think about the total amount I am eating rather than the carb components of every item and worrying about whether I should eat them or not. So for lunch today I had soup and salad and with the salad, I had some crackers containing (according to the packet) about 20g of carbohydrate. If I fancied some peanuts with my lunch I would have swapped a few handfuls for the crackers and that way would have enjoyed the peanuts but kept to my target carb consumption.
By the way, forget sugar content. As far as your system is concerned sugar is just another carbohydrate and so it is the total carbohydrate you should be always be looking for.
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I suspect that the 16g includes fibre (which is a carbohydrate) & that the figure quoted by @everydayupsanddowns is probably closer to the mark. But as you say, the numbers vary according to source.
My issue with peanuts is more about CV stuff than carbs. First, salted peanuts have lots of salt (doh!) so you need to keep an eye on that. Second, peanuts are really quite high in saturated fat & it's worth keeping an eye on that also.
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And don’t be fooled into going for ‘dry roasted’ to reduce salt content - the spicy flavouring has even more salt than salted peanuts!
My example was KP salted, for reference 🙂
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If you think that's high carb then you can't be eating too much of anything else as that's quite low carb xx
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