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Feb. 4th, 2006 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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Date: 2006-02-04 06:40 am (UTC)What does your pancake recipe contain? Mine's just flour, milk, eggs, and salt. One of the few recipes I remember by heart.
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Date: 2006-02-04 08:45 pm (UTC)One of my experiments will be to add whole grains to my pancake recipe, to see how that affects the GI.
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Date: 2006-02-04 06:53 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2006-02-04 10:00 am (UTC)It's the Orgran mix which has a GI of 102 - I'll see if I can find any figures for other mixes!
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Date: 2006-02-04 10:47 pm (UTC)Maybe have one and see how you go?
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Date: 2006-02-04 08:05 am (UTC)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...
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Date: 2006-02-04 10:55 am (UTC)*groan* How well you know me.
the offer remains open...
Thank you kindly!
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:58 am (UTC)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