Is any bread truly safe?
Every bread I tested this week on one scoreboard, and the cheapest loaf won. Plus the honest answer to the question I spent all week dodging.
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Same word on both bags. Seventeen points apart.
A bakery loaf against a supermarket "sourdough", matched for carbohydrate. The label turned out to be the only thing they had in common.
Read the issueTwo of these breads are the same. One is not.
White, whole wheat and real sourdough, matched for carbohydrate on three mornings. The gap between first and second place was one point.
Read the issueThe same bread, four ways. The gap was 28 points.
Fresh, frozen and thawed, toasted, and all of it together. One step does most of the work, and it is not the toaster.
Read the issueReal sourdough is better bread. It is still bread.
I drove across town for a proper long-fermented loaf. It took my blood sugar up 58 points. The thing that helped was in my freezer.
Read the issueAre the sweeteners safe? What that cancer headline said.
The week's drinks ranked, and a straight answer to the question that has been sitting under all of it, including the number of cans the limit works out to in cans.
Read the issueThe same can, with and without the sugar
A regular Coke raised my blood sugar 78 points. The zero sugar one raised it 3. The swap is worth making, and it is still not the same as drinking water.
Read the issueThree clear fizzy drinks. One of them is a dessert.
Coke Zero, Diet Coke and a tonic water. They look the same in the glass. One of them carries 33 grams of sugar, and almost nobody guesses which.
Read the issueWhat I drink now at three in the afternoon
A regular Coke carries 39 grams of sugar and raised my blood sugar 78 points. Here is the ladder of swaps I worked down, and where I landed.
Read the issueI was sure Coke Zero would spike me. It did nothing.
A can on an empty stomach moved my blood sugar three points, which is noise. The interesting part is what a flat line does not tell you.
Read the issueWhat the monitor taught me in three days
The week's foods ranked, the four rules worth keeping, and an honest answer to the question my sister asked: do I have to give up fruit?
Read the issueThe same banana, two mornings, two very different lines
Two tablespoons of peanut butter added 26 percent more carbohydrate to my breakfast. It still raised my blood sugar a third less than the banana on its own.
Read the issueSame sugar in all three. One of them didn't act like it.
A medium apple, a medium banana and a cup of grapes carry almost the same carbohydrate. On the monitor, one raised my blood sugar twice as much as another.
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