Bananas!

[Mark.R]

No more than one a day. Is this information rubbish?

[liz32]

I guess it depends on what you want to eat. If you want to use up carbs on a banana go for it. Becuase they are high I only eat about 1/3 on penutbutter toaste. It's how you want to use your carbs. I can eat a bagel that has 50 grams of carb or I could eat a turkey dinner for roughly the same. That's my understanding. It's all about choice. Also, if you want to eat more.....excersize more.
Liz

[Mark.R]

I guess it depends on what you want to eat. If you want to use up carbs on a banana go for it. Becuase they are high I only eat about 1/3 on penutbutter toaste. It's how you want to use your carbs. I can eat a bagel that has 50 grams of carb or I could eat a turkey dinner for roughly the same. That's my understanding. It's all about choice. Also, if you want to eat more.....excersize more.
Liz


Wise words indeed :shakehand

[Cyborg]

Unless you are low carbing, for what other reason would you want to limit how many bananas you eat?

[Mark.R]

Unless you are low carbing, for what other reason would you want to limit how many bananas you eat?


Coz im new to this and might appear stoopid but if you have high BSL, and bananas are high in sugar should you not eat less of them?

[Cyborg]

Coz im new to this and might appear stoopid but if you have high BSL, and bananas are high in sugar should you not eat less of them?

Being a type 2 where you need to control your bg with exercise and diet alone, I would suggest eating bananas with care because they will spike your bg.

[Jaclyn]

Being a type 2 where you need to control your bg with exercise and diet alone, I would suggest eating bananas with care because they will spike your bg.

I heard the were not too good for diabetics also, I do limit my intake of bananas to maybe 1/2 in my cherrios once a week. Havent gotten a rise yet from them yet my eat so little of them. I really dont mind eating cherrios plain.

Jaclyn

[spiketvl]

Actually I asked this of my diabetic educator last week and she said to make sure it was a small banana and not too ripe and only one a day. She said no need to eat green ones, but they must be very firm. Actually bananas are so expensive in Australia since a cyclone ripped out most of our banana crops a few months ago. I paid $2.35 for one banana last week when I was out walking!!! That shock nearly up my BSL's up alone lol

[spiketvl]

ok this thread made me crave a banana so I just had one and did a BSL 10 minutes later and its 8.1 - so has spiked it a bit. Grapes do it too me to - shot me up to a 10.5 (Umm but I just may have had more than the recommended handful ;))

[Penny]

For most of the last 8 years, I have eaten a small banana every morning, on my doctor's advice. Most fruit, really causes a spike in my BS, so I eat very litle of any of it...grapes and oranges are the worst for me, strawberries or blueberries aren't too bad. I recently changed the way I eat my daily banana, as I was having big spikes after a very spare breakfast, and it has helped. Now I cut a very small banana in 1/2, eat half with breakfast and the other half with lunch. So far, this is working. I am experimenting with small apples the same way, with limited success. I need to have more protein, such as eggs and no other carbs for an apple to work. Should we treat fruit as a treat, or do we need it as part of our daily balanced meals?

[Brenda A]

ok this thread made me crave a banana so I just had one and did a BSL 10 minutes later and its 8.1 - so has spiked it a bit. Grapes do it too me to - shot me up to a 10.5 (Umm but I just may have had more than the recommended handful ;))

When I have a low I usually bring it up with 10 grapes and an oz of cheese! They will send it up.
Brenda

[labob]

In response to Penny's question regarding whether fruit should be considered a treat or an essential part of a balanced diet, if anyone has figured this out, I'd sure like to know the answer. I eat a handful of berries at breakfast every morning (usually blackberries because for some reason they're typically the cheapest where I shop). When tangerines were in season, I would occasionally have one as a late-afternoon snack if I dipped down into the 80s (I eat dinner pretty late, so it's not uncommon for me to nosh on something between 4-5 p.m. when I know I won't be having dinner until 8-9 p.m.). I'm still afraid of bananas, though pre-diagnosis I loved them. Otherwise . . . I find it hard to have much fruit -- even though I've always loved it -- and keep my glucose levels in check. Fruit is both nutritious and delicious, but depending on the type and quantity, alas, it really does a number on my bg. We'll see how I hold up during watermelon season.

[Tokyo Cate]

I'm still afraid of bananas, though pre-diagnosis I loved them. Otherwise . . . I find it hard to have much fruit -- even though I've always loved it -- and keep my glucose levels in check.

Type 1 to Type 2, I feel for you. I have never had any fear of bananas, nor any other fruit. My Mom is Type 2 and really has to watch what she eats very closely or she suffers for it now, and in the future. So long as I give myself the right amount of insulin, or have the right amount of activity, I am good with any fruit.

All the power to you and I hope you do some fun things to burn off those banana carbs--a bit of monkeying around couldn't be bad, could it?