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Diabetic Jam

  • 07 May 2012 9:50 PM
    Message # 914122
    Deleted user

    Hi everyone, I am on about week 8 of my sugar withdrawal and actually feeling really good, I bought some Stute diabetic Strawberry jam having looked at the panel ont the back it says:

    Carbohydrates 57.0g

    of which Sugars 3.0g

    Sorbitol 54.0g

    could someone please advise if this is OK, this was very expensive but I love the odd bread and jam or jam on my scones, no suger used with them.

    I am convinced that David Gillespie is correct in all his assumptions and am amazed at the sugar in everything.

    Thanks

    Sylvia

     

      

  • 08 May 2012 2:39 AM
    Reply # 914393 on 914122
    Anonymous
    On page 54-55 of Sweet Poison Quit Plan says that sorbitol  is metabolised to fructose, so it's a no-no.

    Most jams are about 65% "sugars" - SPQP Page 120. Thinking about how Mum used to make it, most of that would be sucrose. But since they all contain fruit some of it must be fructose too.  Anyway, a teaspoonful of jam/marmalade is about 5 grams, say 3 grams of sugar so maybe 2 grams of fructose. You need 10 grams a day, so as long as you don't go overboard with fruit and other fructose stuff, it should be OK at breakfast. I usually have 1/2 a tsp of marmalade, say about 1 gram of fructose..
     

    JohnN
    Last modified: 08 May 2012 2:45 AM | Anonymous
  • 09 May 2012 3:59 PM
    Reply # 915878 on 914122
    Deleted user
    Jam is basically loaded with sugar, it's fruit ( full of fructose before you start) and sugar, when I used to make jam with my own fruit, it was equal weight sugar.  Having said that, I agree with the other comment, if you're *aware* of how much sugar is in everything, you can get away with a swipe of jam, if you're super careful to have no fruit/no fructose the rest of the day.  Personally, I've abandoned jam altogether.  There's also recipes in the recipes section to make jam with dextrose, so that's another option.  I'd use that to do scones for a special occasion, and avoid jam day to day as an obvious source of fructose, but, I do allow a little fructose in other things ( last night I cooked arancini balls, and I could not find a fructose free aioli, so I sucked it up, for example ), so it's probably not that different if jam from time to time is how you let some fructose in, in a very limited and controlled way.

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