[ant hill]

Originally Posted by Penny

Our sour cherry tree is loaded this year. I stood under it and ate them until I couldn't eat another one yesterday. Two hours later, my BS was 109. Just did the same thing for lunch, but ate a slice of American cheese and a couple pieces of hard salami right before. Almost 4 hours later, I am 89. Cherries, blueberries, and blackberries don't seem to cause me any problems.

Aww Penny, Seems that I have to get into some fruit and cherries I do like but the price is otherwise less attractive.

Oh Penny, Can I raid your tree?

[alicat61]

[quote=ant hill;347288][b][font="Comic Sans MS"][color="Blue"] Seems that I have to get into some fruit and cherries I do like but the price is otherwise less attractive.

Hi,
Peter only a 5 month wait and Cherries will be plentiful over this side of the world.

All this talk of Cherries makes me envious I love them. You can stew the cherries and freeze them.
We have a tree only 3 years old but last season we got over 5 kilo's off it. Yum

[ant hill]

Originally Posted by alicat61

Hi,
Peter only a 5 month wait and Cherries will be plentiful over this side of the world.

Yeah I cannot wait.

All this talk of Cherries makes me envious I love them. You can stew the cherries and freeze them.
We have a tree only 3 years old but last season we got over 5 kilo's off it. Yum

You lucky thing Alicat61. I just cannot wait as I live in semi rural area and there is cherrie growers here and they're cheeper than the supermarkets.

[georgepds]

So, it's not a one to one correspondence between cherry consumption and low BG in the morning. But, I like cherries, I just won't go out of my way to eat them

Last night, I had a 1/4 cup, an low and behold.. the meter said 102 this morning, which is low for me in the morning.

I realize this is not a "fact" and does not raise to the standard of a double blind placebo controlled test.. but it beats nothing, and the cherries still taste good.

[bryan42]

Do chocolate covered cherries count???

[jbrowning2612]

I've never been just real keen on cherries, but I might can learn if they'll make my BG levels go down a bit.

[georgepds]

"Do chocolate covered cherries count?"

Depends on the interior... the candied marishino cherries used in 1950's cocktails ( remeber when folks used to drink hard liquor) have had all the nutrients ( falvonoids) etched out of them

[volleyball]

Those maraschino cherries was the first thing to relieve my gout . I never saw any candied though, just in a sweet syrup.
So they must still have beneficial properties

[georgepds]

Originally Posted by volleyball

Those maraschino cherries was the first thing to relieve my gout . I never saw any candied though, just in a sweet syrup.
So they must still have beneficial properties

I'm glad it worked for you. The caution i read was here

Chemicals Found In Cherries May Help Fight Diabetes


"But people with diabetes are encouraged to use caution when it comes to consuming maraschino cherries, the bright red candied version that adorns ice cream and cocktails, Nair points out. Many of the beneficial cherry pigments that were present in the fresh fruit have been removed during processing, replaced with food coloring, and extra sugar has been added."

[georgepds]

Then again, it might have been the combination of cherries and ginger that did the trick

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. - Journal of Medicinal Food - 11(1):152

"Data of this study suggest that ginger and garlic are insulinotropic rather than hypoglycemic while overall anti-diabetic effects of ginger are better than those of garlic, at least in this experimental condition."