Can Diabetics Have Peanut Butter? (buy, blood, eat, sugar)
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Peanut Butter is OK. But you have to be careful. A lot of the popular brands are loaded with sugar. JIF, and Peter Pan, for example, are very high in sugar.
My first reaction was, "Of course!" But my entire life I have bought / eaten nothing but natural peanut butter...nothing but peanuts and salt. As the previous poster said, diabetics should avoid the kind with added sugar...as everyone should.
If you have a Giant Food store near you, try their Organic Nature's Promise peanut butter with "no salt added". It has a great taste, low in carbs and very very low in salt.
This peanut butter is one of the very few items I can eat that is low in carbs and salt and still high in calories which I need to keep from losing any more weight.
Peanuts are a legume and cause some people's bg to sky rocket. I avoid them although I really like them!
Interesting, given the low GI of peanuts.
Of course, it's hard to eat just a few peanuts.
But with a natural (No sugar added) peanut butter it is easier to maintain portion control.
Diabetics can eat anything, as long as they stick to a reasonable amount. Peanut butter has carbs, but it also has fat and protein. A slice of toast with a tablespoon (or less) of peanut butter would probably be a better snack for a diabetic than a piece of toast eaten dry, because fat and protein slow the digestion of carbs, preventing a sugar spike.
Diabetics can eat anything, as long as they stick to a reasonable amount. Peanut butter has carbs, but it also has fat and protein. A slice of toast with a tablespoon (or less) of peanut butter would probably be a better snack for a diabetic than a piece of toast eaten dry, because fat and protein slow the digestion of carbs, preventing a sugar spike.
I did not know that. Thank you for this information. I'll put it to good use.
Read the labels VERY GOOD on all nut-butters........for some STRANGE reason, manufacturers are adding more and more sugar to peanut-butter and all other nut-butters.
The almond-butter that I USED to buy was simply just that, almonds and some salt. NOW, that same brand has added a BUNCH of sugar to the ingredient..........probably did so to satisfy the greedy sweet-tooths of soda/juice chugging Murrrcans.
I did not know that. Thank you for this information. I'll put it to good use.
I'm not sure why, but I can't handle peanut butter on toast, at least not on an empty stomach. Too much starch? My body doesn't like wheat? I'm not sure. Every once in a while I buy a jar of unsweetened almond or cashew butter. I eat it from a spoon or put a wad on a small piece of a multi-grain cracker.
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