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I have occasionally had instances where I have gotten soda or iced tea that I am pretty sure was not diet. I wonder if there is some kind of test strip I could use to test the drink to make sure?
You can use your meter (pricey option, and it will mess up averages if you use the meter to track your BG) or you can order Diastix (the old testing strips that had to be peed on).
Beverages with sugar will be sticky, while diet beverages will not be sticky. Stick your finger in and see if it gets sticky as you tap your fingers together.
You can use your meter (pricey option, and it will mess up averages if you use the meter to track your BG) or you can order Diastix (the old testing strips that had to be peed on).
I actually have a bunch of strips since I've converted to Freestyle Libre CGM so I can use try them. Reason I asked today was that I think I may have some mislabeled diet orange soda bottles here at home. This afternoon my numbers were good after lunch but about 4 PM (not long after I had a bottle of Sunkist) my numbers started an abrupt climb. I've had a couple similar instances in the last week but this was the first time I could pin down what I had had when the number seemed high. I will try it out tomorrow!. I'm betting some expired strips I have may work since this is basically a GO-NOGO check.
Dr. Bernstein talks about this in his book. Here is a quote from his web site.
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TESTING FOR STARCH OR SUCROSE IN FOODS
Sometimes you’ll find yourself at a restaurant, hotel, or reception where you cannot predict if foods have sugar or flour in them. Your waiter probably has little idea of what’s in a given recipe, so don’t even ask him; his response will likely be incorrect. I’ve found that the easiest way to make certain is to use the Clinistix or Diastix that should have been checked off on your supply list (Chapter 3). These are manufactured to test urine for glucose.We use them to test food. If, for example, you want to determine if a soup or salad dressing contains table sugar (sucrose) or a sauce contains flour, just put a small amount in your mouth and mix it with your saliva. Then spit a tiny bit onto a test strip. Any color change indicates the presence of sugar or starch. Saliva is essential to this reaction because it contains an enzyme that releases glucose from sucrose (table sugar) or from flour in the food, permitting it to react with the chemicals in the test strip. This is how I found that one restaurant in my neighborhood uses large amounts of sugar in its bouillon while another restaurant uses none.
Solid foods can also be tested this way, but you must chew them first. The lightest color on the color chart label of the test strip container indicates a very low concentration of glucose. Any color paler than this may be acceptable for foods consumed in small amounts. The Clinistix/Diastix method works on nearly all the foods on our No-No list except milk products, which contain lactose. It will also not
react with fructose (fruit sugar; also present in some vegetables and in honey). If in doubt, assume the worst.
I have occasionally had instances where I have gotten soda or iced tea that I am pretty sure was not diet. I wonder if there is some kind of test strip I could use to test the drink to make sure?
Or am I the only one that has this problem?
A soda repair man once said the diet will have more fizz to it. Diet root beer has a fizz like regular beer. Other diet drinks will too. You may have to wait till the fizz settles if you want more to drink.
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