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Well bleep me. Maple syrup - real, pure maple syrup - has a GI of only 54. That means it causes a slow and steady rise and fall in blood glucose, like other low GI foods such as sweet potatoes and basmati rice, which is what you want for preventing or controlling diabetes. (High GI foods such as white bread and potatoes cause a rapid rise, and too-high blood glucose readings, followed by a rapid fall - very bad for you, especially in the long term.) I was having a little maple syrup as a guilty pleasure - it's not like it's the sort of thing you'd ever consume in bucketloads, but I can safely use it on my pancakes. Now if I can just get the pancakes themselves to be low GI!

Date: 2006-02-04 06:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ide-cyan.livejournal.com
And I just had maple syrup and pancakes a little under an hour ago!

What does your pancake recipe contain? Mine's just flour, milk, eggs, and salt. One of the few recipes I remember by heart.

Date: 2006-02-04 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
Pretty much the same - I tried adding soy flour to bring down the GI, but it didn't work. *continues to experiment*

Date: 2006-02-04 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
Whole grains are low GI because they're slower to digest, so release their energy slowly (I eat a lot of multigrain bread and crackers). But grinding them up into flour makes them easy to digest, so wholemeal or wholegrain flour is medium GI (better than white bread) but not low GI like multigrain.

One of my experiments will be to add whole grains to my pancake recipe, to see how that affects the GI.

Date: 2006-02-04 06:40 am (UTC)
ext_15510: (bliss - Paul)
From: [identity profile] whochick.livejournal.com
What you need is buckwheat pancakes with some almond meal thrown in. GI of 56, I've been advised. I'm also on a low GI diet ... just keeping my heart happy ;)

Date: 2006-02-04 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
I used to eat the commercial buckwheat pancakes, but they turned out to have a GI of 102! Adding almond meal is a heck of a good idea, though, I might try that in the white flour recipe I'm tinkering with.

Date: 2006-02-04 06:53 am (UTC)
ext_15510: (ideas?)
From: [identity profile] whochick.livejournal.com
Goodness! 102!

I can't remember the brand of buckwheat mix I buy ... hmm, "Mother Somebody's 100% buckwheat pancake mix" ... sorry, not very helpful. Almond meal gives them a lovely nutty flavour too, which is only enhanced by the GI-friendly maple syrup.

Just make sure you're buying the fake syrup not the evil tree-torturing variety, huh?

Date: 2006-02-04 10:29 pm (UTC)
ext_15510: (balls!)
From: [identity profile] whochick.livejournal.com
Not my fake stuff, thankee very much! Mine is pure buckwheat flour with a little non-sugared egg powder and baking soda. (Runs to check something) ... yes, it even says it's suitable for diabetics and has "no sugar or artificial sweetners added" blazoned all over it.

Date: 2006-02-04 10:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
You misunderstand... I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

It's the Orgran mix which has a GI of 102 - I'll see if I can find any figures for other mixes!

Date: 2006-02-04 10:44 pm (UTC)
ext_15510: (amused - Paul)
From: [identity profile] whochick.livejournal.com
*sporfle*

Date: 2006-02-04 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiri-l.livejournal.com
So what your saying is Gluten-free (in this instance buckwheat) pancakes have a low GI index, and maple syrup (pure) won't whallop me?? Ok.. I'll try it. I usually end up with a sugar rush you wouldn't believe - thus I avoid pancakes. (ok just recently had pancakes for the first time in - oh.. 17 years a few months ago.. but I used Log Cabin syrup, which isn't pure.)

Date: 2006-02-04 10:47 pm (UTC)
ext_15510: (clueless - work quickly)
From: [identity profile] whochick.livejournal.com
Well, I'm not diabetic, but I'm very sensitive to sugar. There are no softdrink|sodas for me, let me tell you ... at least, not unless I want to be climbing the walls! I find a little bit of maple syrup goes a long way, but I never have any trouble after eating buckwheat-almond pancakes with syrup.

Maybe have one and see how you go?

Date: 2006-02-04 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capriuni.livejournal.com
It is, in fact, in the same family as spinach, if A Field Guide to Natural History is to be believed....

My mother made killer buckwheat pancakes, with a mix of buckwheat and whole wheat flours, irrc, into which she put chopped pecans.... I didn't know about GI back then, but I do know that a breakfast of those babies kept me feeling full all morning...

Date: 2006-02-04 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
Too kind ma'am! Fortunately, I can get organic maple syrup at the supermarket!

Date: 2006-02-04 10:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
whole-grain, high-fiber, low-carb, all-natural, organic, sustainably farmed

*groan* How well you know me.

the offer remains open...

Thank you kindly!

Date: 2006-02-04 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com
Psst. There's a recipe for buckwheat pancakes here.

Date: 2006-02-04 11:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
Ta muchly! I'll give that a try.

Date: 2006-02-04 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
Dude. Are all natural and relatively-unrefined sugars like that?

Date: 2006-02-04 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
*rummages in GI database* It doesn't quite work like that - fructose is the lowest GI of all sugars, sucrose (highly refined table sugar) is low-medium, glucose has a GI of 100 by definition. Honey's GI varies with the proportion of fructose (that agave cactus nectar I've seen flogged as an alternative sweetener is mostly fructose and is very low GI). Compared to a teaspoon of sugar in your tea, white bread or chips are deadly.

Date: 2006-02-05 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stephanielake.livejournal.com
I'm a pancakes with jam and melted butter or honey person

sad to read that Betty Friedan has died - i think theres still a lot of work before we are really equal - as almost every time im at the beach and stuff tells me - sorry the walking talking sex object treatment gets to me :(

Kate i hope you can email me soon about the school uniforms thing

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