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From: Peppermint Patootie on 7 Oct 2008 10:09
In article <6o6me4p6spb24sbfm1e22o9b2dirdp0ff5(a)4ax.com>,
Alan S <loralgtweightandcarbs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:52:58 -0400, Alice Faber
> <afaber(a)panix.com> wrote:
>
> >How many did you eat? One jelly bean typically has 1 g of carb. The
> >normal recommendation is to have 15 g of carbs to treat a hypo, so that
> >would be 15 jelly beans.
> >
> >For your jelly beans, you'd have to look at the package to see how many
> >jelly beans constitute a serving and how many grams of carb there are in
> >such a serving. From there, it's just arithmetic.
>
> Yours must be quite different to ours. I just weighed ten
> beans from the pack in front of me; the total was 38 gms, so
> each bean is about 3.8 gms. They are pure carb, including
> 30% glucose syrup, so just four beans make 15gms carb.

Wouldn't some of that weight be water?

> The nutrition count is here:
> http://www.nestle.com.au/Products/Confectionery/AllensLollies/Default.htm
> A 100gm serve is 97.6gms carb.

Priscilla
From: Loretta Eisenberg on 7 Oct 2008 10:28
Sugar Free doesnt make it carb free. but when you deduct fiber if any,
and the sugar alcohols, they should not raise blood sugar levels. Of
course, portion size counts. Watch out for the effects of sugar
alcohols. Lots of people eat them with no problem, unfortunately, I am
not one of them

From: Julie Bove on 7 Oct 2008 10:42

"Loretta Eisenberg" <sassybklynlady(a)webtv.net> wrote in message
news:15608-48EB6009-2464(a)storefull-3231.bay.webtv.net...
> Juie you brought me back to before my diagnosis of diabetes. I was
> eating a bag of swedish fish every day. I so loved them and had no
> control. I dont know if my eating got me to diabetes but it got me to
> gain fifty pounds. They are my favorite and hence I never eat them
> because there would be no stopping me.

I rarely ate them before I was diagnosed. Maybe had them once or twice. I
didn't buy much candy. If I did buy it, it was usually good chocolate or
Panda raspberry licorice from the health food store. If I bought Halloween
candy it was always something like Snickers bars because I didn't like them.
I would throw out any leftovers.


From: Julie Bove on 7 Oct 2008 10:43

"M�ck��" <M�ck(a)www.alt-support-diabetes.org> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:30:39 -0400, Alice Faber <afaber(a)panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>>In article <gcekg302a6a(a)news5.newsguy.com>,
>> "Cheri" <gserviceatlodinetdotcom> wrote:
>>
>>> "Nev." <nev(a)nowhere.org> wrote in message
>>> news:48eac917$0$31805$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au...
>>> >
>>> > "Loretta Eisenberg" <sassybklynlady(a)webtv.net> wrote in message
>>> > news:29171-48EAB972-1762(a)storefull-3232.bay.webtv.net...
>>> >> Are you sure you didnt get sugar free jelly beans. How many did you
>>> >> eat.
>>> >>
>>> > I once tried to buy some sugar free jelly beans, and was told they
>>> > don't
>>> > exist.
>>> >
>>> > Nev.
>>>
>>> Jelly Belly makes many different kinds of SF jelly beans.
>>>
>>
>>But they have sugar alcohols. The package warns to start with a half
>>serving, due to the laxative effects. And, the actual labeled carb count
>>is the same as for the regular, fully sugared ones.
>
>
> since when did sugar free EVER mean carb free?

It never did, but plenty of people assume it does.


From: Dave in TX on 8 Oct 2008 18:39
Yeah I'd test with in 30 minutes of eating the jelly beans as sugar spikes
(jelly beans are mostly sugar) can come and go quickly.

"terryc" <newssixspam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.10.06.23.43.45.609949(a)woa.com.au...
>I carry a film canister of jelly beans as my emergency low blood sugar
> item. Yesterday was the annual refresh the stock routine,,,but I had some
> of them.
>
> End of the day testing was alarming. Blood sugar was far lower than
> expected. Seems the particular packet of Nestles Jelly beans isn't good
> for the reason I carry. Yes, the ingredients does start of sugar, glucose,
> but it seems that they might be a token amount.
>
> I'll do another testto ensure that the peak didn't come and go very fast,
> but that brings upthe questions as to which are the brands made the
> old way of lots of sugar?
>
> Follow up is an apple btw.


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