SugaVida product claims to help diabetics

[RayMathers]

Hi
I was at RHS Chatsworth show today and a stall was selling Sugavida (www.sugavida.co.uk) and claiming that it helped regulate blood sugar levels and aid restful sleep etc. A 1/2 teaspoon a few times a day was recommended.
Has any-one seen this product? I bought a packet, but I'd like another opinion if any-one has any experience of it.
Thanks

 

[Northerner]

Snake oil, I'd say As a type 1 all you need is insulin to manage your blood sugar levels 🙂 What's in it?

 

[Jodee]

It might be ok as a sweet treat alternative.

 

[Robin]

I had to Google this, as I've never heard of it. From what I've read, it has just as many carbs as normal sugar (some say you’re supposed to need less of it, though) and it has some vitamins in it, though nothing you couldn’t be getting already from a healthy balanced diet.

 

[mikeyB]

Anyone who buys this as a “Natural” alternative to sugar must be easily seduced. Sugar is a natural product. As this stuff is supposed to be derived from some nectar or other, if you think it hasn’t been reprocessed to take out the fly **** and detritus you must be mad. Even madder to think that the nectar is the sole ingredient.

Sugar is sugar. They say in the blurb on their site that it doesn’t have any fructose. So what. Neither does Tate & Lyle’s granulated. That’s not the only bit that’s wrong with their pseudoscientific guff, but I don’t have a week to trash it.

 

[KARNAK]

Didn`t go down well did that Ray?

 

[Docb]

Yes mikeyB, the clue is in the fact that the only nutritional information on the website is in a blurry small pic of the back of the packet. They actually do not want you to know what is in it so that you can make up your own mind about whether to use it. Close inspection of this pic shows it to be 97.08% carbohydrate of which 98.07% are sugars. Enough said.

 

[Northerner]

The main claims seem to revolve around B12. I can't see how having a spoonful of sugar before bed can help prevent nocturnal hyperglycaemia, since it would raise levels, and doubt it could help prevent hypoglycaemia except by raising levels overnight, in which case maybe medication needs to be reviewed (e.g. basal insulin doses may be set too high). Just a way of making money, I'm afraid, it's a massive industry based on very flimsy 'evidence'

 

[emmgeo]

I have not been a diabetic very long, but it seems to me there are a lot of products and miracle cures that claim to either help reduce bs or cure diabetes all together.
We are all desperate to be rid of this illness and there are people out there who try to feed of our desperation.
I say keep it simple by eating a healthy balanced diet with the odd naughty treat now and then, and save your money instead of wasting it on these miracle cures.