{"id":26066,"date":"2010-07-20T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=26066"},"modified":"2010-07-20T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:09:08","slug":"sugar-free-foods-that-raise-your-blood-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/sugar-free-foods-that-raise-your-blood-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Free Foods that Raise Your Blood Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blood Sugar and Sugar Free Foods\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/sugar-free-foods-that-raise-your-blood-sugar\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26067\" title=\"sugar-free-foods-that-raise-blood-sugar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sugar-free-foods-that-raise-blood-sugar.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar free foods that raise blood sugar\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>How can a &#8220;sugar free&#8221; product still effect your blood sugar? <a title=\"Sugar vs. Artificial Sweetener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/sweet-debate-sugar-vs-artificial-sweetener\/\" target=\"_self\">Artificial sweeteners<\/a> like sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame don&#8217;t contain carbohydrates or calories, so they won&#8217;t impact blood sugar levels. However, <a title=\"Blood Sugar and Sugar Free Foods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/20\/health\/20real.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=Anahad%20O%E2%80%99Connor&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports, these sugar substitutes are accompanied by sugar alcohols in many foods labeled sugar free.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite a sugar or an alcohol, sugar alcohols have a molecular structure that looks like a cross between the two. Food manufacturers add them to <a title=\"sugar free foods\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/what-about-sugar-free-foods-if-im-diabetic\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;sugar free&#8221; products<\/a> like chocolate, hard candy, cookies, and chewing gum. Sugar alcohols do have fewer calories than normal sugar, but still have some impact on blood sugar.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those who need to <a title=\"Lower your blood sugar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/diabetic-diet---5-ways-to-lower-your-blood-sugar-level\/\" target=\"_self\">watch their blood sugar<\/a>, reading the nutrition label is all the more important. &#8220;One way to account for them is to count half the grams of sugar alcohol in a product as carbohydrates, since roughly half of the sugar alcohol content is actually digested. You can identify sugar alcohols in an ingredient list by looking for words that end in \u201c-ol,\u201d like sorbitol, maltitol and xylitol. And in foods labeled \u201csugar free\u201d or \u201cno added sugar,\u201d the precise sugar alcohol count must be listed separately under the nutritional information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some foods labeled sugar free may have lurking carbohydrates that can raise blood sugar levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/sugar-free-foods-that-raise-your-blood-sugar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[1172,29,279,869],"class_list":["post-26066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-blood-sugar","tag-nutrition","tag-sugar","tag-sweetener"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26080,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions\/26080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}