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Posted 10/31/2022 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
You told glenninindy on 9-28-22:

"The fruit that I eat would be only blueberries, strawberries or raspberries and that would only be once a week. In fact, I might put a few on top of the dessert I just described above. Fruit has a lot of carbs so I don't eat most of it and certainly not a lot of what I do eat. You can get all the nutrition of fruit in colorful vegetables so not eating fruit is not going to make you deficient in vitamins."

I eat bananas on my cereal at night. I eat grapes on my cottage cheese when I'm not eating an apple on my cottage cheese.

I am in a race to eat all the fresh fruit that I bought a few days before at the supermarket before it goes bad.

When the fresh fruit runs out, I eat packaged fruit on my cereal, etc. When the packaged fruit runs out, I go back to the supermarket and buy some more fresh and packaged fruit. And now you say, it's all bad.

I'm glad you said that, but it does put a crimp in my diet. Perhaps, no wonder my blood sugar numbers are as high as they are. Now I did hear that fructose (fruit sugar) has as much sugar as regular sugar. But I decided not to believe it and now I'm hearing that I was wrong.

Back to the drawing board.

Post Edited (Tim Tam) : 11/1/2022 7:32:48 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/2/2022 3:28 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Tim Tam, yes, fruit has a lot of natural sugar in it. This is fructose and it raises our blood sugar just as any carb will. So, remember that no matter what the source of the carb is, the higher the carbs, the higher your blood sugar will go.

As far as nutrition, you will find that vegetables have the same nutrition (vitamins and minerals) as fruit. It's just that fruit is obviously sweeter. If you really want to eat some banana or berries, etc., you can freeze portions of them so they won't go bad and then eat just a little of them at a time.

Cereals are made from grains and have lots of carbs. They will raise your blood sugar.
Posted 11/4/2022 9:23 PM (GMT 0)
I've been told by multiple dietitians that if you're going to eat fruit, it's best to choose something other than grapes, because they will push the blood glucose higher than other fruits. Also, dried fruits have more sugar for their volume because they're shrunk by the drying process. This was several years ago, so not sure if it is current or not.
Posted 11/27/2022 10:21 PM (GMT 0)
alerting me to fruit was when Laney when she told glenninindy on 9-28-22:

"The fruit that I eat would be only blueberries, strawberries or raspberries and that would only be once a week. In fact, I might put a few on top of the dessert I just described above. Fruit has a lot of carbs so I don't eat most of it...."

A post later, Leney added:

"yes, fruit has a lot of natural sugar in it. This is fructose and it raises our blood sugar just as any carb will. So, remember that no matter what the source of the carb is, the higher the carbs, the higher your blood sugar will go."

And jujub said: "I've been told by multiple dietitians that if you're going to eat fruit, it's best to choose something other than grapes, because they will push the blood glucose higher than other fruits."

Based on that, in the last couple of months I've been trying to re-educate myself concerning fruit.

For the past few days I have been eating tomatoes, not grapes, on my cottage cheese for lunch. Last night I was out of bananas so no cereal or bananas for midnight snack.

Without fruit or cereal the day before, this morning my fasting blood sugar was 136. Days prior to that it was 152 then 160. So taking out the fruit from my diet does help, along with the low blood sugar pill Plotlitzaone 30mg.

But you also said, "Cereals are made from grains and have lots of carbs. They will raise your blood sugar." So without bananas I also had no cereal last night. I don't know how long I can keep that up.

My doctor said the 130s would be a good goal to aim for.
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