Running out of bread choices :(

[everydayupsanddowns]

How about this...

Glycemic Index for Bananas
The glycemic index (GI) of bananas varies depending upon how ripe the bananas are. This is because a lot of the carbohydrate in green bananas is in the form of a kind of resistant starch which we lack the enzyme to digest. As the fruit ripens, the starch is converted into readily available sugars.

One study of "under-ripe" bananas came up with a glycemic index of 30. One of "slightly under-ripe bananas" that were "yellow with green sections" produced a GI of 42, while another of "over-ripe" bananas was 52. However, most studies of bananas haven't specified the ripeness, and have come up with GIs ranging from 46 to 70. An average of 52 is usually assigned to bananas.

 

[itsallgood]

That's very interesting eduad, I think this means that a green banana would be partly 'invisible' to the gut as it can't be broken down, unless it can be broken down but just takes longer, in which case you get all the sugar eventually. So the only benefit then would be a smaller BG spike.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

That's very interesting eduad, I think this means that a green banana would be partly 'invisible' to the gut as it can't be broken down, unless it can be broken down but just takes longer, in which case you get all the sugar eventually. So the only benefit then would be a smaller BG spike.

The part about 'lack the enzyme to digest' suggests to me that some of the total carbs of a fully ripe banana would be inaccessible to us when the same banana was less ripe.

 

[pav]

I have had one of those nights of what do I want to eat and got nowhere fast. In the end had 2 beef burgers and 2 eggs and 1 ryvita, not very thrilling and possibly the first time I have had burgers in a year.

Two hours later and BS is 4.6 (yikes) plenty of time left before bed time I did not bother with carbs as BS before tea was 11.7 and did not feel like bread.

Just had a banana as a snack, and will be able to see if bananas do spike me. Looks like I will be needing a late snack or sweat to tied me over through the night.

 

[pav]

2 hours after the banana snack, BS has gone from 4.6 to 4.4, did not test for any spikes in-between, looks like bananas are ok for me to eat. 🙂

 

[pav]

Tried granary for the last time BS gone high again.

Looked in ASDA found my local did 2 versions the Soya at ?0-85 and the poppy at ?1-40, found most of the poppy ones were very close to the BB date, did manage to find one with a reasonable date.

I prefer the poppy version over the soya one, though carbs are a fair bit higher than the soya one. Will give it a try over the week, though waiting for BS to come back down again from the granary bread.

Also out is steak and kidney pie had half a one from the chippy and high again. It appears I am getting more sensitive to this white floor problem than I thought. A couple of weeks ago when I tried one for a change it was ok.

Now looks like a total ban (or near as possible) on foods containing white floor.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Also out is steak and kidney pie had half a one from the chippy and high again. It appears I am getting more sensitive to this white floor problem than I thought. A couple of weeks ago when I tried one for a change it was ok.

Now looks like a total ban (or near as possible) on foods containing white floor.

Pav, forgive the silly question... But what accompanied the pie from the chippy? A standard pukka pie is probably 40g CHO or thereabouts, but the chips (depending on how many you had) could easily be twice, three times or five times that!

 

[pav]

It was chips from the chippy, I have been monitoring when I have chips to see if there's any difference and until the 1/2 pie was added BS did not spike.

Even cut out the curry sauce to reduce any problems, eating less chips as they don't taste like a proper chip should be like and a lot end up in the bin.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

It was chips from the chippy, I have been monitoring when I have chips to see if there's any difference and until the 1/2 pie was added BS did not spike.

Even cut out the curry sauce to reduce any problems, eating less chips as they don't taste like a proper chip should be like and a lot end up in the bin.

I know my situation (T1 on insulin) is very different, but since the fat in chips slows down the absorption of the carbs I would expect the full rise of a meal from the chips not to be apparent until several hours after eating - probably more like 3 or 4. It's certainly something we eat every now and then, but its always a bit of a nightmare to deal with as its usually a meal with a massive carb load and tricky absorption profile 😱

 

[Mark T]

It's almost the case that they need an affordable constant blood glucose testing mechanism for diabetics. Should you test one hour, two hour or even more.

When you are on a limited test strip allowance it's difficult to justify doing multiple testing just to find the peak. The few times I've saved up a few extra tests I've found that some food's don't spike me till anything between 4 to 6 hours later (especially when combined with alcohol).

 

[Sienna]

For me, it's more about portion control than the type of bread. ..

What about making the slices thinner? They used to sell medium sliced and even thin-sliced loaves but I haven't seen them for ages.
If you toast the bread lightly it'll hold together so you can slice flat-ways like filleting a fish. Haha! half the carbs 🙂 Half as filling though :-(