How do you react to fruits?

[binnieman]

I was just wondering how members here react to fruits? Fruits and vegetables in pretty much any quantities do not seem to raise my BG at all. For example, I had a banana, an orange, and more than a handful of grapes all at once and two hours later, my BG ended up exactly where it was prior to taking the fruits. That is the trend I have been observing every time I ate fruits. On the other hand, I am finding that well cooked, spicy, and complex foods like ethnic foods to be raising my BG to its highest around 130. Is that to be expected even with very limited amounts of rice and other carb sources?

[foxl]

wow lucky you!

Half a piece of any tree fruit is my limit ... berries I can eat 1/2cup.

[Dis-N-Dat]

Oooohhh fruit, the one thing I'm craving now that so much of it is in season. Arrrggghhh all the apple, pears, oranges & grapes are looking sooo good to me tight now! But I can't do it.

[notme]

This seems to be one of those really individual things. I can eat most fruits with little problem. The only one that "gets me" is cantaloupe. I can eat watermelon, berries, peaches, nectarines, oranges, pears and some apples. I love fruit and eat it quite often.

You just have to try them and test.

[Evermont]

I have no trouble with this claim. Fresh fruits are an important category of food IMHO. Diabetics should eat as wide a variety of produce as they can tolerate. My heuristic for fruits is to tend toward temperate fruits and away from tropical. I do them all but tropical in very small amounts.

If you say you bought bananas on Monday and Tuesday your blood sugar seemed fine, I might suggest trying one from the same bunch on Saturday and see if there's any difference. The wiki on ripening has some interesting concepts on starches converting to sugars. There seem to be GI implications.

Just another one of those things that if we're not paying attention - all the mileages seem to vary even more.

[ADSOFT]

Well my mom is a T2 and she ate a mongo for a snack and 2 hrs later she was at 104, ... I was shocked. I later read that mongos burn up quickly.

You have to look up the glycemic indexes of the fruits to get an idea. Then find some info on the effect on glucose.



I ate about 6 baby carrots once and was up to 120 in 20 minutes, I got scared and drank water 25 minutes late I was back at 100.

[cyberus]

Fruit = no no for me

I get a spike from every fruit

[jtausch]

well unfortunately i have two apples and a pear tree in my back yard apples did not do to well but got a lot of pears I eat not to much and seem to be ok as long as i don,t over do it.

I also have a pecan tree and am going to get a lot of pecans this year yippee

[bebe38]

I can eat most fruits small apples and mangos I can get by without any insulin. But bananas tend to make me run high if I don't get myself a extra unit of insulin and I love bananas. :(

[princesslinda]

We're all so different in our tolerances, that's why testing is so important.

I find I can eat 1/2 a banana or a small apple (just about any kind) w/o problems. I don't do well with pineapple or grapes, just a little will send my blood sugar soaring. Cantaloupe and even watermelon works for me in small amounts. Berries work well for me, esp. blueberries.

I do find that if I eat fruit, I need to eat it in the early afternoon as opposed to after dinner to get the best blood sugar results, probably because i'm more active then.

[Miemie]

I've always thought that fruits were ok for me. I used to have low blood sugar (now not hypo), but it rarely went over 99 after I've eaten, and dropped right back to about 82.

Now for me that is low and that is when I start getting the lightheadedness, shivering, etc. So I used to have an apple and that would seem to raise my bg to an acceptable level for my body.

Now this I did not take into account since I've been diagnosed as Pre-D. The other night I was not feeling well after dinner, and had an apple, the next morning my fasting bg was 95 (always between 68 and 82).

So apples is not a good idea for me, although hard bananas is ok and surprisingly grapes as well. I try to limit my tropical fruits as well. 100% Fruit juices also seem to have the same effect.

[jps]

Fruits are probably the one food group where your mileage may vary (YMMV) applies the most. Seems that almost all fruits are extremely individualistic when it comes to effects on blood sugar.

When I was trying to get the disease under control, most fruits were out. The only ones I was ok with were berries (straw, blue, black, rasp) and avocados really. Bananas, apples, citrus fruits, melons, peaches - all strict no-no's for me.

Since gaining control, losing a lot of fat - thereby reducing my insulin resistance - I can eat as much of any fruit I want, which is important to me. Fruit has become a solid staple for me. It has essentially replaced all grain carbs in my diet. I eat fruit with every meal and it - with nuts, cheese, and some veggies - comprise of 100% of my snack foods. There are some days where my daily intake of food is nearly 100% fruits.

Yesterday, for example - for breakfast, I had a banana and pink lady apple. For lunch, I wasn't very hungry at all (but I force myself to eat a little bit for every meal because I think it's a good thing to eat regularly, even a little bit if you aren't hungry) I had a small bowl of canteloupe. When I got home, I had intended on eating a regular dinner, but I was hungry as soon as I hit the door. I ate two bananas, another pink lady apple, a bartlett pear, and a plum. I didn't need dinner at all.

Didn't have an impact on my glucose at all.

Funny, I try to avoid carbs, but yesterday was one of those days where I ate nothing but carb. A decent amount of fiber was in there of course, but still, very little fat, very little protein, almost all carb. Exercise wise it was a non-resistance day - no weights. It was strictly cardio.

I'm a low carb proponent in general, but that has slowly been morphing to diffentiating between high quality (natural) and low quality carbs (processed).

If your blood meter tells you it's ok, I think you should ingest as many fruits and vegetables as you can handle.