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Do you have any flavors of glucose tabs that you prefer? Select all that apply!
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Like the old M & M ‘s commercial: Melts in you mouth, not in your hand. 🎓🌟
The pharmacy near my college used to carry green apple flavored glucose tablets. That’s my all time favorite. When I was a kid my favorites were the lemon ones. I don’t know why there aren’t more sour flavors available these days. Who doesn’t love lemonade/limeade?
I got green apple once at CVS. You might try there.
I’ve always had glucose tabs on hand, but never really used them. Years ago, I preferred the tropical flavor. However, my preference if honey, juice, or fresh fruits.
CVS brand
Rootbeer Float
But I prefer
A 15 gm juicebox
I don’t mind juice, but 15 grams of carbs is way more than I need to raise my sugar level. One, or possibly two glucose tabs (4-8 grams of carbs) are all I usually need
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Chocolate and Root beer if you can find them, anything but orange. Mostly just use juice and applesauce
At one time, maybe 20 years ago or more, the Walmart brand of tabs had an English Toffee flavor that I loved.
I use Glucose SOS (powder) instead of the tablets. It works much quicker for me.
I started on orange for years, now, almost anything but orange. Fruit puncs now…
I hate all glucose TABLETS because it’s like chewing chalk. I use glucose gummies which come in a small variety of fruity flavors, all of which are all fine with me. They are much easier to eat than chalk is.
I use gummies, but I didn’t know there are “glucose gummies “. Where can I find those? I wonder if they work faster than regular fruitsnacks/gummies?
I put tropical but it is only the tropical ones that have different colored tablets. The ones that are all the same taste not so nice. 😉
Dex4 does chocolate marshmallow tabs. I like them because the fruit flavours all seem to have loads of citric acid to make them tangy, and the chocolate doesn’t.
I am going to try to find these.
I get them online now…..always liked raspberry. They aren convenient, a couple in every pocket, don; melt or stick or make a mess. Melt away in the washer. Easy easy and two work in ten minutes. But i dont go real low -Dexcom alarm is a lifesaver.
I have the “chalk” due to necessity. I don’t like the taste of any of them!
Marsha, I have gotten glucose gummies at CVS and Rite Aid. They are star-shaped and each one has 2 carb grams. Walgreens used to have small cookie-shaped ones that had 3 carbs each but they mostly don’t have them any longer. If I happen to find them there I buy all they have because I like that slightly larger size. I find that gummies act pretty quickly and I like having that option at my bedside.
I haven’t purchased them in many years and don’t know if they’re still available, but I liked the watermelon flavored tablets from Kroger. I actually liked them too much and would consume far more than what was needed during treatments for low blood sugars.
I prefer my blood glucose in range. And I prefer real food but will use glucose tablets when Dangerously low.
The strawberry because it reminds me of the crunch berries in Cap’n Crunch.
I generally don’t like the tabs. However if I need something I prefer the Chocolate-Marshmallow made by TruePlus. I used to get them at CVS but they are hard to find so I order online. A 1/2 roll of Smarties work well for me, too, or a couple of ounces of juice. I used to take jelly beans but don’t like the sticky sugar on my teeth. At least with the tabs it washes off with some rinsing.
I always thought the whole reason they make ’em taste like candy-flavored chalk was so you’d only eat them when you NEED one. I selected “I don’t like any of them” AND “Orange” because to me that’s the least objectionable one.
I thought the same, too. When I can flavor that makes it “easier” to swallow.
Years ago, local drugstores sold lemon glucose tablets. I haven’t seen them for years; they were almost pleasant. As for taste, I like the raspberry glucose gummies, but at $8 for 5.3oz, they’re pretty costly.
CVS used to carry watermelon, which was the best flavor of all. Has anyone else noticed that it’s harder to find glucose tablets? Stores don’t seem to be ordering as many bottles as before (one or two on the shelf).
I have asked my local drug store to order them, they apparently did not notice that item was not being stocked. It seems they are harder to find over the past year or so.
I have glucose tablets all over the house and my son’s school however we still go for juice boxes 1st.
Cherry is the worst – yuck
Can only stomach the orange.
I really liked when Dex4 had sour apple flavor. I tolerate raspberry, grape, or fruit punch. The current brands available are too hard and slow to dissolve so glucotabs are no longer my go-to choice.
I would say I LIKE any of the flavors but they work in a pinch. I keep them on my nightstand for overnight lows. Occasionally I’m low enough to think “mmm, not bad.”
If I can find them, fruit punch. Otherwise no thank.
I’ve never had strawberry, but I used to get a blueberry and really liked that one.
As well as the above, my real favourite would be blackcurrant which I always can get.
Hello!
I was surprised by today’s question, but even more surprised by the number of responses. I’ve always used gummies, or whatever was at hand to treat reactions, and wonder why something specially labelled for diabetic insulin reactions is any better than what’s so readily available in the grocery store. I guess if it makes people feel better to use something with the “seal of approval,” that’s fine. But I’ve probably saved a lot by using anything that contains pure glucose. And it’s a sweet way of acting like a normal person, even if it really is medicinal. Sorry, I just think manufacturers will use any excuse to make a dollar…..
The BEST r the Glucose Gummies from WalGreens and WalMart, they are the round gummie drops… but IMPOSSIBLE to find now for some reason? The smaller ones are heavily coated w/ sugar like granules that make eating them unpleasant, and the tablets are chalky and hard and dry. So water helps.
The glucose gummies that come in a variety of flavors. Walmart / CVS and Amazon all carry them.
I only use glucose tabs when I am out and my only option is the tabs in my purse. When I discovered the gummies at Walmart I was so excited because the berry fruit ones are so good. But they do not act as quickly as the tabs so I have gone back to tabs which I really don’t like. I’m usually pretty low when I use them so I need them to work quickly.
I don’t mind the chalkiness or the hardness of the glucose tabs… I like the tanginess of the tropical fruit.
I don’t like how gummies get stuck to my teeth and I feel the chalk… I mean glucose tabs… can be rinsed off once I’ve gotten the benefit of the bulk of the tab.
I don’t use glucose tablets. Instead I use Smarties Candy rolls, 6 grams carbs per roll, same exact ingredients as what’s in the glucose tablets but going by cost per pound or ounce priced at roughly 1/4 the price of the glucose tablets.
Me too!
Anything but grape!
I get best results with glucose tabs instead of foods I grab!! I once bought pineapple tablets and they were wonderful!!!
Fruit Punch is my go-to flavor but I’ll take Grape if I can’t get them. The only tablets I’ll spit out are orange. They are disgusting and I’d almost rather pass out than eat them.
I have a bottle of Chocolate Marshmallow that I use sometimes. It’s a little odd but a nice change from the fruit flavors.
Does using sugary candy psychologically reward you for having low blood glucose levels?
I buy a 2-pound box of sugar cubes. An empty pill bottle or blood glucose strip container holds at least 3 sugar cubes. There are 4 grams of sugar (16 calories) per cube. Usually 2 or 3 sugar cubes brings relief within 12 to 15 minutes while sitting or laying down. I check blood glucose and repeat if bg has not risen in 15’, but that’s rare. If low (or high bg) 2 consecutive days, then I consider tweaking timing or amount of food or exercise or insulin dose. It’s tempting to overeat (over-correct) for a low bg, so I treat ASAP when I get a Dexcom warning verified by finger stick. I always carry a water bottle to stay hydrated so rinsing is no problem. Pump advantage from previous comments to previous questions: fewer lows.
So not a fan of glucose tabs. Do not like the taste no matter the flavor.
Can’t stand the nasty giant chalk tablets. Will not use them until left with literally zero choice.
Just buy Smarties for emergency sugar. Better tasting and so much cheaper!
I gave up glucose tabs back in the 80s. Yuck! They don’t work very fast for me ever. They are chalky and easy to choke on. Flavors are fine, but I prefer Welch’s fruit chews. 2g / gummy, they work like lightning and they melt quickly in your cheek but not in a ziploc bag in hot weather. A construction worker with T1D told me that’s what he uses on the job.
this is EXACTLY what I use instead.
Tropical Fruit flavor from CVS is the least chemical tasting of them all. It is also sweet, rather than tart like a Sweet Tart, and less chalky.
Pretty much anything but orange.
Having been given orange flavored baby aspirin as a child I developed a lifelong dislike of chemical orange flavor.
Plus, my mother’s go to low fix was a load of sugar stirred into orange juice. Yuck! Orange juice isn’t ever in my fridge.
None of the tablets taste good – but when you need ’em…
Blackcurrant