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.  

Text by Clinique Suisse
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