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| Thu, 07-29-2004 - 2:19am |
I have been eating an english muffin with butter and some honey lightly spread on it. I have found that after having this my blood sugar tends to be a little higher than what I want it to be and I think it is due to not knowing what exactly is in the honey with no nutritional label on the honey container. How much is in honey exactly? Since I do not seem to find any information on this any place and really do love to have some of it every other day. I appreciate any help you can offer me on honey, because I want to enjoy it only with knowing exactly how many carbs and sugars are in a given serving size. Take care and have a wonderful day!


http://www.calorieking.com/foods/food.php?amount=1&unit=36362&category_id=91&brand_id=1&food_id=69695&partner=
Calorie King is a great web site to get the breakdown on foods.
Since I was diagnosed, I have only had honey voluntarily a few times - once to cure a low, a couple times I was on one of my "bad" streaks.
Blueliner4
(aka The Pixie Princess)
Denise,
This took some searching to find! 1 tablespoon of honey is equal to 15 grams of carbs. Probably if you measured it and didn't have more than 1 teaspoon your blood sugar wouldn't go so high. Do remember honey is just like sugar for raising your blood sugar. (Might I suggest that you look at some low-sugar jams or jellies instead of the honey?)
Cheers,
Thank you Mary Frances for that information. I did know that honey was just like sugar though since they used it when I went to summer diabetic camp as a child to raise blood sugar with. I do not even use a teaspoon of it, but my blood sugar does not seem to go very high just higher than I want it to is all. I am one who doesn't care much for jams or jellies with having grown up without having any of them at all. I have tried a strawberry spread, which I found was just ok not very thrilled over it though. At least I only have the honey every so often so it isn't as if I use it daily just once in a while as a little treat. Oh, the things we find we like only to be so very bad for us can drive a person nuts. Take care and do have a great day!