The Strategy for Diabetic People to Pick a Cuppa

For people with diabetes, the key strategy in meal-planning is to eat a healthy and balanced diet with special focus on eating a consistent amount of carbohydrate at meals and snacks on a daily basis to keep your blood glucose under good control.

For all people with diabetes, the best choice of beverage is something without added sugar or which is low in carbohydrate content, between 0g and not more than 5g (0-5g) of carbohydrate.

If you add sugar or honey or condensed milk to your tea, coffee or other beverages, every one teaspoon level of sugar or honey or condensed milk will contribute 5g carbohydrate (sugar), which equals 20kcal. You may wish to substitute sugar, honey or condensed milk with an artificial sweetener.

Please avoid beverages such as Coca-Cola, 100 Plus, and Bandung as these are concentrated in sugar/carbohydrate and they cause the blood glucose level to rise rapidly.

For people with diabetes, who count carbohydrate as a meal planning method to control diabetes, the maximum amount of carbohydrate allowed to be consumed as a beverage is 15g but on the condition that this 15g of carbohydrate must be exchanged for other types of carbohydrate such as starch, fruit, milk, starchy vegetable, or beans so that the amount of carbohydrate consumed at a meal remains consistent.

For other beverages bought from the supermarket, check the food labels to determine the total carbohydrate content of the beverage based on its serving size or the serving you intend to consume.  

Common Beverages Carbohydrate (g) Calorie Content (kcal)
Espresso Regular 1g 4kcal
Coffee with condensed milk (1 cup) 15.3g 113kcal
Coffee, brewed (1 portion) 0.6g 3.1kcal
Cappuccino (1 cup) 13g 76kcal
Coffee Latte with low fat milk & sugar (1cup) 10.3g 110kcal
Coffee powder, instant (1 teaspoon) 0.7g 3.4kcal
Café Mocha (½ cup) 12g 92kcal
Horlicks Powder (2 level Tablespoons) 16g 77kcal
Milo powder (2 level tablespoons) 14g 140kcal
Chinese Tea (1 cup) 0.3g 1kcal
Tea/Green Tea (1 bag) 0g 1kcal
Ginger Tea sweetened (1 cup) 12g 74kcal
Soyabean milk unsweetened (1 cup) 3g 83kcal
Barley water sweetened (1 glass) 14g 55kcal
Bandung (1 glass) - AVOID 32g 153kcal
Coke Light/Zero (1 can) 0g 0kcal
Coca-Cola regular (1 can) - AVOID 35g 140kcal
100 Plus (1 can) - AVOID 22g 85kcal

 

Text by Clinique Suisse
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Source(s):
http://www.cliniquesuisse.co.id/

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