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Vinegar?
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I was told to include vinegar/lemon juice within my meals for a reduction in readings. Often have a side salad with vinegar based dressing, lemon wedges with a suitable meal. I would be wary of drinking vinegar on an empty stomach.
http://ginews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/food-of-month.html
http://ginews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/food-of-month.html
Hi Astbury1,
We were told at FFL that this is in fact true. It does help stop the spike and if you do a trial of pasta with cheese on and then another with tomato with a touch of vinegar added then the results will be much better with the tomato sauce. Gary Scheiner (think like a pancreas)adds it to his salads to stop his spikes and swears by it. They did show us some graphs showing the differences. I am not sure why it works but it does!🙂Bev
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I believe this refers to apple cider vinegar rather than the sort of thing you put on your chips. In any case, I think there's only ever been one study into this, which found that drinking 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar before bedtime (yuk!) resulted in morning BG levels around 4% lower. In other words, well within the meter margin of error and so probably not really that useful.
Interesting people! Well i might give it a go. Not going to harm!Yes I do believe it is apple cider vinegar.
This may explain a few things. I had a meal with vinegar in it last night. I never do....... Ths morning my sugars were 6.7. Never ever ever been below 7.5 and few hours after dinner I was lower. Definiely less of a spike! Im willing to try anything to be honest!
This may explain a few things. I had a meal with vinegar in it last night. I never do....... Ths morning my sugars were 6.7. Never ever ever been below 7.5 and few hours after dinner I was lower. Definiely less of a spike! Im willing to try anything to be honest!
Hi Astbury1,
Exactly! If you dont try you wont know - even if it doesnt work - vinegar wont harm you anyway so anything that gets those levels lower has got to be good.🙂Bev
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Can you use balsamic vinegar? I love that stuff!
good luck with the vinegar experiment !
also, just to let you know in case the vinegar strategy doesnt work, I have a sheet from my dietician which outlines Low GI vs. Medium GI vs High GI foods. It categorizes the foods according to cereal, bread, rice/grains/pasta, potato /starchy veg, vegetables / beans/ lentils, fruit, dairy foods and snacks (i.e. its all presented in a grid).
I'm happy to share the info with you (by email or pm), so just let me know!
C
also, just to let you know in case the vinegar strategy doesnt work, I have a sheet from my dietician which outlines Low GI vs. Medium GI vs High GI foods. It categorizes the foods according to cereal, bread, rice/grains/pasta, potato /starchy veg, vegetables / beans/ lentils, fruit, dairy foods and snacks (i.e. its all presented in a grid).
I'm happy to share the info with you (by email or pm), so just let me know!
C
I sometimes take cider vinegar if I know a meal is going to contain something a little starchy. Tastiest way is as part of a salad dressing. There are many recipes and concoctions on the web.
Don't get the gourmet cider vinegars which look like bottles of wine - they tend to contain sugar!
Freshly squeezed lemon juice is good too, particularly if it contains the yellow pulp which contains soluable fibre.
Don't suppose it mentions any low GI iced jam doughnuts by any remote chance does it?
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http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php?num=2073&ak=detail
About 75 by the look of it. Roughly the same as most 'healthy' breakfast cereals then 😱
🙂 I *wish* there was such a thing!
for snacks under low GI it lists : peanuts*, popcorn*, oatmeal biscuits*, rich tea biscuits*
medium GI - digestive biscuit*, cream cracker*, rye crisp bread
high GI - puffed crisp bread, rice cakes
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* high calorie food to be limited if trying to lose weight
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I've heard that cidre vinegar is good for arthritic conditions but never heard of it lowering GI of a food.
Vinegar or Vin Aigre literaly means sour wine so why doesn't it apply to other vinegars.
I use cidre vinegar in chinese sauces. this is a simple recipe for a stir fry sauce:
1tblspn cidre vinegar
1tblspn soy sauce
5 fl oz chicken stock (from a cube or home made)
1 clove garlic finely chopped
pinch salt (optional)
1-2tspn cornflour mixed with a tblspn water for thickening.
tspn chilli flakes or chilli powder (optional)
Stir fry meat and/or sliced veg. Add the sauce, bring to boil, add the cornflour mix, stir until thickened, then serve, Easy!
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FWIW Tonight I cooked sausages (9g carb per 2 Aberdeen Angus beef sausages) and a load of roasted veg. 1 red onion, 1 leek, 2 x chicory, 2 x pointed red peppers, a few small plum tomatoes between 2 pers. I added a couple of tbs olive oil and a couple of tbs balsamic vinegar + at the end of cooking some sliced goat's cheese. With it we had about 150g Jersey Royal Potato between us & I added a load of fresh basil before serving. Brill, at 4 hours I am 5.1!
Was this the rather copious balsamic vinegar?
Was this the rather copious balsamic vinegar?
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