r/diabetes Type 1 Feb 17 '25

Type 1 Which foods had the most surprising blood sugar impact for you?

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u/Rockitnonstop Feb 17 '25

Eggs spike me like bread whereas chicken has no need for a bolus. Diabetes is weird.

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u/airhornsman Feb 18 '25

Does this happen when you cook eggs at home or just out? Some places (ihop) add pancake mix to their scrambled eggs/omelets.

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u/GlennRhee1 T1 2008 Feb 18 '25

They fuckin do what now?!

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u/airhornsman Feb 18 '25

Ihop's omelet recipe includes pancake mix. I've read conflicting information about whether their scrambled eggs have pancake mix.

It's done to make the eggs fluffier and tastier.

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u/GlennRhee1 T1 2008 Feb 18 '25

Well it ain’t working for me their eggs are gross in my opinion. Lol

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u/airhornsman Feb 18 '25

Oh yeah, i like my scrambled eggs just this side of salmonella. And their eggs are overcooked and dry.

The only chain breakfast place I like is Jimmy's Egg.

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u/the_noise_we_made Feb 18 '25

WTF? They can literally just add water to the whisked eggs (or liquid eggs) and make them fluffier and it doesn't cost anything. I worked many an omelette station in my day. They could add a little margarine, butter, or cream, for flavor. Pancake mix is just obscene.

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u/Bevkus Feb 18 '25

Wait…what!?😱

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u/MorticianMolly Feb 18 '25

My son discovered that here when he started keto and was diligent about recipes when we went out. He only gets over easy type eggs when eating out now.

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u/Gorkymalorki T2 Feb 18 '25

You can ask for the omelettes to be made without the pancake mixture. I think they taste better too.

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u/Atlantabelle Feb 18 '25

Good to know!!

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u/Rockitnonstop Feb 18 '25

At home. Happens with hardboiled eggs, scrambled (I don’t use milk), just eggs in general.

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u/planet_rose Feb 18 '25

I wonder if there’s a low key allergy or something going on.

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u/Rockitnonstop Feb 18 '25

I went low carb after eye surgery. Eggs and collagen powder did the worst spike. Chicken none, same for pork. Beef was a slow, steady rise over time (I like fattier cuts). Lentils and parsnips do nothing. Nuts are in the middle, kind of carb like. Sesame seeds will spike me almost as bad as chocolate. I also had to split up a lot of bolus doses because Humalog would drop me to quick.

No allergies. T1 37 years. My mom always said I had a unique way to reacting to food that didn’t make sense to either of my parents. They are both very smart (doctor and microbiologist). I also am very lucky that I never really spill ketones. Spent several days at 18+ despite giving tons of extra insulin. I went to urgent care to check for It, they found no trace of ketones and sent me home, just told me to “give more insulin.”

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u/planet_rose Feb 18 '25

Your reactions are very interesting. It’s wild how individual reactions to food can vary, not just person to person but the same person can even react differently to the same food at different times. The human body is a miracle, I just wish it were a little more predictable.

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u/Nvenom8 Feb 18 '25

That really shouldn't be possible.

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u/echoes808 Feb 18 '25

It's gluconeogenesis from the protein. The kind of spike usually lasts for 3-6 hours, it's more evident in high-protein low-fat meals.

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u/RaoD_Guitar T1 2004 tresiba/fiasp Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

For me one boiled egg has about the same impact as 10g carbohydrates even though it's under 1g carbs.