My point, Ted, is that if people are worried that their beverage is
loaded with sugar, they don't need to buy urine strips, but can use
their blood glucose meter (that they already have with them). Using a
test strip to confirm that your drink is not sugar-free is not
meaningless. I don't place any importance in the reading, but just in
the fact that I can see that I didn't get the diet drink that I ordered.

One time I was able to tell the fast food restaurant manager that they
had the regular coke hooked up to the diet coke spigots. I didn't tell
him for my benefit--I already knew--but I was hoping to help other
diabetics who might not as readily recognize a regular drink.

I can't believe how, on this newsgroup, a perfectly innocent statement
can cause such mayhem.


Ted Rosenberg wrote:

> cc'd by email
> One touch test strips are NOT to test beverages or urine
> they are to test BLOOD
> any results from anything else are MEANINGLESS
>
> smallpkg wrote:
>
>> I have often tested beverages with my One Touch strips (all kinds) and
>> they register high glucose (over 600mg/dl) for drinks made with high
>> fructose corn syrup or other sugars. I only test when I've had a swig
>> of a drink that I recognize as non-diet, non-sugarfree, since I
>> recognize it immediately. Tonight I tested on MaiTai mix (as an
>> experiment), which is only sweetened with corn syrup, and it tested
>> "high" on the meter. You're pretty safe to just use your regular
>> blood glucose meter strips. Why buy urine strips just for testing foods?
>>
>> Michael Wäsch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Out of curiosity I just dipped an urine test strip into Coca Cola
>>>>> an it
>>>>> instantly indicated lots of glucose ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it made with high fructose corn syrup?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Table of contents says: Sugar
>>>
>>> If you want, I can put industrial sugar into water and test it again...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>