"Julie Bove" > wrote in
news:OFHsg.8242$Ep.4995@trnddc08:

>>
>> And after eating the dates, your blood sugar did what????
>
> Didn't go out of range. According to the package, a serving of
> dates is 5-6 and that would be 60 g of carbs. I ate only a tiny
> piece. Perhaps the equivalent of one or two dates. Works for me!
> The only other carbs I had with the mean were some baked beans. But
> I made those myself and the only sweetener was about 1/8 cup of
> molasses for the whole recipe and the Splenda in the ketchup.
>


I'm looking at Mendosa's glycemic index list - it shows the GI 103 plus
or minus 21, 60 grams of carbs per 100 gram serving, 42 GL. But that's
for Australian dates (I didn't even know there was an "Australian"
variety!) Deglet noor and medjool are the two I'm most familiar with.
The Deglet noor has 75 g of carbs per 100 grams, 63 g sugar.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c20UM.html

*One* medjool date is 18 grams of carbs, 16 grams of that is sugar.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c21uW.html

I suppose how many dates are in a serving (if you're looking at 100
grams/serving) would depend on how big the dates are.

Dunno - that's a lot of concentrated sugar and the dates are the bulk
of the recipe!

I know a serving of honey shoots me up really high - I've tried it on
toast - I *love* honey butter on toast - and really limited how much
honey I put on the bread and by BG went way too high!

Not a fan of baked beans - they're way too sweet! I love deserts, but
not sweet foods during the meal itself.

I absolultely *love* dates but won't touch them now that I've been
diagnosed!

Sherry