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What are three foods that raise your blood glucose the most dramatically despite your best efforts to count the carbs, pre-bolus insulin, and manage the impact?
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Asian noodles, ice cream and pizza.
Any bread, crackers, cereal.
Cereal with dairy milk. I can do okay with pretty much everything else except cold cereal, especially with dairy milk added. Nothing works.
Ice cream, red meat and any other food with high protein and fat content—particularly at dinner when I’m sedentary afterwards.
Sushi
White bread
Pizza
Breakfast cereal, bagels, Chinese food
Pancakes (and I eat one at a time)
White rice
Pizza
Pasta, Chinese food, and cereal
Pizza, pizza, and pizza in that order.
I know enough now to treat it like steroids: estimate the dpse, double it, then double it again.
Lol!!
My trickiest foods are rice, grapes, and….Italian ice from down the street! But it’s SO GOOD.
Pizza, Thai food, and hibachi. High fats, inconsistent cuts/ingredients. I just hope my guess is even remotely close, use a dual wave bolus, and correct…often over the next 4-8 hours or more. But so yummy so it is worth it.
Pizza, Rice, etc.
pizza, rice, dry cereal…
pizza, cake and ice cream
Oatmeal, rice and beans
Pasta, rice, certain breads
Dark chocolate, asian food from a restaurant (not homemade), any larger high fat meal
Agreed. Anything with higher fat sends my BG on a day-long roller coaster.
Too bad chocolate is on that list.
I’m laughing because….I just don’t EAT things that would do that—NOT the way the majority of human beings with diabetes choose to eat but it works for me.
Rice
Pasta
Oatmeal
Breads
Pasta
Potatoes
Rice and pasta.
Spaghetti, pizza and bananas
Pizza, anything with milk, pasta
White rice, any breakfast cereal, pasta.
DRY CEREAL, BANANA
Pizza. Bananas, first I go high, then too low. Anything that I know I should give the insulin a healthy head-start, but often don’t.
For some reason fried chicken always sends my sugars unreasonably high
Pizza, chips [French Fries], pasta.
Regular soda, chips of any kind, and ice cream
Eggplant parm, ice cream and onion rings.
Used to be pizza but now I ask for a slice of veggie, no cheese and it’s fine.
Pizza, fried food and cereal
French fries, white rice, pizza
PASTA, RICE and potatoes
Bagels, bananas, pizza
Waffle, is the only one I finally figured out frenzy toast and pizza
Pizza, Lasagna, baked potato with butter and sour cream.
Coffee, noodles, Chinese food.
Pizza and Chinese food
Rice
Bagels, oatmeal, French fries.
French fries
Rice noodles
Bread
Pizza
Oatmeal cereal
Most restaurant foods
Corn based products (cornbread, corn chips, tamales) all cold cereals and foods using refined flours. I tend to avoid these foods.
And bagels, they completely do me in.
I found bagels are the biggest offenders. Each ounce that the bagel weighs is equivalent to eating a slice of bread. Most bagels are 5-6 oz., so the bagel is 5 to 6 slices of bread. I try to find the thin bagels, which brings it down to the 2 oz. per bagel.
pasta, ANY highly refined foods, ANY restaurant foods.
Pizza & chinese
Pancakes, pizza, does Thanksgiving count?
pancakes, eating out/fried foods, pasta
Pizza and Italian food
Mexican food
white rice
Potato soup, plain white rice
white sub sandwich bread or french bread
Yogurt (plain, nonfat), Chinese food
For me it’s homemade enchiladas. I use low carb tortillas with homemade refried beans, chicken, sautéed onions, & bell peppers with homemade sauce topped with shredded cheese, sour cream & avocado. I eat 2 & it’s just about 35-40 grams of carbs total yet it raises my blood sugars to over 250 no matter how much I pre bolus. Then takes 4-5 hours to come back down. That’s why we only have it once every 2 months.
Cereal, pancakes, sushi
bagels
pizza
cereal
Oatmeal 🥣
Rice, cereal, pasta
I live in the south of the country. Eating ANYTHING out here is a disaster for me.
#1. Food cooked in or containing high amounts of linoleic acid are impossible. It doesn’t matter what it is – Hamburger, fried chicken, pizza, potato chips, plantains, apples, protein bars, etc..
I can eat the same exact food grilled, baked or boiled and I barely need to bolus.
#2. Milk containing products mixed with high sugar/carbs – like icecream, yogurt or pizza. I’ve given up on trying to accommodate. I completely avoid. Instead, I drink low fat kefir and eat non-dairy yogurt, which are so much easier on my system.
#3. Foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Those just send my blood sugar to the moon. A can of Coke is a great rescue drink. It’s crazy. Same foods/drink with added sugar don’t do the same.
rice
Bagels are hard but I’ve figured out for me, that I need to triple the insulin needed. I same them for special occasions.
Milk and cereal.
Bread, potatoes—especially fries, cereal
It is so much worse after 53 years of diabetes.
Pizza, cereal with milk
Pizza, fatty foods, meat at dinner
Pizza, ice cream, protein – larger than 2 ounces
rich broth soups with beans
fat fried food
Asian food sauces
Oatmeal, Asian foods, pasta
Anything Chinese
Pasta
Microbrewed beer
My worst experiences have been with plain white rice, pasta, and potatoes. The same ingredients mixed with protein and/or fats are manageable. I’m too scared to try many of the foods mentioned by others here. When there’s a cure, I’ll be eating waffles with maple syrup, like I did when I was a kid 🙂
Yum, waffles and syrup! Me, too!!
Bananas and foods with high amounts of fat.
That must be why I am also seeing so much pizza on everyone list the high fat is why I do the dual bolus to cover high fat foods.
Pizza
Ice cream
Pasta in any form
Restaurant food, in general. Restaurant food is loaded with hidden oils and fats, sugars, salt. Anytime I eat at a restaurant, my blood glucoses shoot up between midnight and 2am.
Same with me. So we eat at home most of the time.
Yes, Carrolyn, we go out to restaurants very seldom. Although, I also deal with Celiac Disease, which is another deterrent to eating out. My wife orders of take-out meals from restaurants.
Honestly, I don’t enjoy eating at restaurants for many reasons; some of which have to do with cleanliness, and hygiene of restaurant employees. Sorry, TMI 😉
Sushi, Pizza, pasta
Anything made with wheat flour
Mexican and
Thai/Chinese are the most challenging
1. Pizza
2. Pizza
3. Pizza
Rice, potato chips, foods high in fat
Pizza, pizza, pizza
Asian restaurant food! Impossible to figure out the ingredients. Pizza.
Pizza
Nuts
Ice cream
Nuts make me go low and then later go high. Pizza rears an ugly high hours later. And ice cream no explanation necessary. I don’t do well with fat. Tried keto and my numbers were terrible.
Bagel pizza pasta
Asian foods, pasta, oatmeal
Pasta, bread, and pie.
Asian food (especially Thai and Vietnamese), holiday meals, and desserts.
Rice, pizza and cereals
Pasta too
Pizza, bread, pasta
Oatmeal, cereal, pasta
Rice
Rice
Pasta
Pizza
Pasta, pretzels & pizza.
All of them – we’re still learning! But especially Harvest Snaps (dried green beans and similarly processed snack foods), pizza, and oatmeal
Rice potato bread
Most restaurant food (has hidden sugars and i never know how much insulin to take). and any white grain or flour if I eat over 15 carbs of it.
It is not so much the kind of food that gives me high blood sugar. It is the time of day that most contributes to that. ai always have highs an hour after breakfast. I have a slice of whole grain toast and some berries and then I have 170-200 blood sugar an hour later. I use a 1:7 insulin:carb ratio, but that does not solve the problem.
My blood glucoses rise dramatically after breakfast. I take much larger doses of basal and bolus.
Peanut butter
Cheese
Milk
I’m firmly in the low carb camp. Less than 40 grams a day, mostly in the form of green high fiber vegetables. No grain based products, and no seed oils.
Mochis, pad thai, and (alas) my national dish, poutine. (Yeah, I know, none of them are exactly low carb! But for the very occasional treat…)
Grapes, white rice, white potatoes.
Rice, potato-anything, pizza
Rice, pasta, baked goods
white rice, processed cereals, white bread (baguettes)
Ice cream, white bread, white rice
Pizza
grapes, restaurant food altogether, and pizza
Chinese food, croissants, sushi
3 foods that raise my blood sugar and are hard to deal with are, cereal, rice and fast food.
forgot to mention dealing with it. I let my pump handle it. If its super bad I do a temp basal setting that has been recommended by my dr.
Pizza, rice, pasta
Pancakes/waffles
Pizza
Restaurant food – the really hard part is timing on this one because you never know when the meal is really coming to your table. And, I’ve been forgotten more than once, so I never bolus before seeing the food… which means my timing is terrible!
Sometimes I want to pre-bolus before I even get to the restaurant if I know it’s going to be a meal that’s going to hit hard. But, I’m scared to not knowing the wait once I get there. I will occasionally bolus for take out once I get it as I’m driving home to get a jump start but then I worry, what if I have an accident on way AND all that insulin on board. Then I have 2 emergencies. Sigh.
I think you are right to worry about bolusing and then getting in a car… I knew a person who got to work and then passed out. All I could think was that they could have been in the car if any part of the commute was delayed!
Bagels, Chinese.
Rice, potatoes, cereal
Rice, rice and rice!!!!
Bagels
Pizza
Pasta
Rice, cereal, Asian food sauces
Pizza. Chinese foods. Wheat products.
Cereal, oatmeal, cinnamon rolls
Bananas; saturated fat before carbs, even whole grains; refined carbs like white rice.
Rice, noodles and artisan breads, pizza, high protein meals and/or high fat meals, sometimes soups and stews depending on contents, baked goodies of all types unless homemade with almond flour.
Dried fruit of any kind. Pre DX I used to LOVE dried bananas., now I can’t even look at them.
Pizza, Chinese Food, Pop Tarts
Dried mangos, licorice and donuts…. however inhalable insulin has made this much easier.
(1) Chinese take-out food selections unless I ask for steamed veggies with “real deal” brown rice and a lean protein sans sauce
(2) Italian street fair fried dough and various heavy carb food selections – I just avoid it all together
(3) Cakes – which I eat on very VERY rare occasions
Tea, Spaghetti and Chili.
Pizza, pizza, and pizza.
Potato chips; high, fat meats like beef tenderloin, and regular pretzels
Pizza, bread/bagels, peanut butter
Ice cream (though we usually give our son coconut or almond milk vs dairy), pizza (so many variables)
Licorice
Bread
Candy
Coke, OJ & candy
Broccoli, cauliflower, built bars.
Potatoes – I’ve almost stopped eating them
Pizza- completely unpredictable BG response- I have stopped eating it
Oatmeal-
Anything with caffeine! Coffee is especially bad!
Pizza & Chinese food
Syrup, pizza, & Chinese food!
The 3 foods that raise my BG the most are: pretzels, watermelon, and apples.
Watermelon Pizza Chinese food
White rice, Chinese food in general, pizza
These would be foods that I don’t know the content of, for example some sauces in restaurant meals. I try never to have more than 20g of carbs in one meal, which makes it easier to get the bolus more accurate.
Low carb tortillas. It takes the little b@$+@&%s an hour or so to wind up but then bg just soars.
Watermelon, ripe bananas, oatmeal.
Any type of white bread, pizza, Chinese food and coffee.
Pizza, lasagna, chinese
Breakfast cereal; cream of wheat; anything full of carbs + fat for dinner
Grapes, any kind of milk, and rice are foods that raise my blood sugar dramatically
Watermelon, pancakes, French fries
cream of wheat, white rice and chips
Three foods that raise my blood sugar despite all my best efforts of prevention are BBQ ribs, pasta, and pizza.
Burritos, sushi, some alcoholic drinks
Oatmeal, pizza, noodles
Bagels, pasta, breakfast cereal are some. However it depends on my activity level what will happen.
Orange Juice
Grapes (or anything made with grapes), apples (or anything made with apples), and of course carbs, but juice of any king are always a one to two arrow straight up depending when I drank it. Before exercise it is one arrow, when at rest it is two.
Liquid carbs and white rice spike quickly. Pizza causes sustained highs. All tricky to bolus for.
Bagels, pasta of any kind and cereal they put up a good fight
Pizza, Nachos, anything that has a coating on it like chicken wings, ribs, pulled pork.
Rice, pasta
Oatmeal, anything made with flour (bread, pasta), dry breakfast cereal
Foods with red sauce, in particular spaghetti sauce and chicken tikka masala, will raise my blood glucose a great deal several hours after the meal. The increase does not occur initially and I anticipate it at least four hours post-meal and will need more insulin at that time.
The foods that are always a challenge to accurately estimate carb content are: 1) Asian/Japanese cuisine 2) Potato Chips 3) Ice Cream
Anything from the Orange family, pizza and things with fructose in it but natural local honey seems to be almost a free sugar by that I mean 15 carbs is more like 5 for insulin need
Pizza, baked potatoes, and lasagna
pasta, pancakes, bread 🙂 not surprisingly…
3 sugar cubes will raise a low bg in 15 minutes. I usually avoid simple carbohydrate foods that raise bg fast like bread and clear fruit juices. Instead I get fiber from nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits. Plus I add a tablespoon of flax meal at breakfast and another tablespoon with dinner to my unsweetened plain full fat yoghurt. Protein sources like cheese, eggs, salmon, sardines and unsweetened nut and seed butters w/o added chemicals at each meal also prevent dramatic blood glucose rises.
Pancakes! Best if I eat bacon/eggs/protein first. Getting better at it.
White Rice, potatoes, bananas
Rice, Pizza, Pasta
The 3 P’s: Pizza, Pasta, Potatoes!
FRIED anything
pasta
bananas🍌
White pasta, donuts, and pizza with red sauce
Any highly sweetened foods—even pineapple, my big skyrockets.
The insulin can’t catch up fast enough to meet the speed of my digestion! I have another complaint: there are days when my insulin ISN’T ENOUGH TO MEET my daily fluctuations! AND I’M NOT SICK! NOT ANXIOUS! NOT UPSET! Enough to cause my normal daily needs around 30units to jump to 42units! to keep my bgs hovering below 250!!! Anyone else have this problem?
Pasta, sweets with sugar,
New York Pizza (I live on Long Island NY but born in Brooklyn.) Along with Chinese Food and French fries. Everything a T1D should not eat!!!!
Non diet sodas
Frostings
Frosted donuts, apple fritters, etc.
Ice cream, pasta and fried foods.
Products made with refined flours, especially wheat.
Every baked product made of grain.
Inulin, a fiber. It ferments in the gut unpredictably. Can’t eat it.
Robusta coffee beans. I drink Arabica bean coffee only. Crazy spiking from robusta.
Carbohydrates – especially white flour
Any processed foods – too many chemicals in the food that my body does not recognize
Anything containing straight sugar, pizza, high fat meals
Cannot think of any specifically which are more difficult than others beyond the generic of anything which is severely carb heavy, and fat laden.