Erythrit raising blood suggar

(Wenchie) #1

Hey folks,

After months of no sweet taste at all I was wanting to test my reaction to Erythrit, so I bought a German brand for Erythritol callea Xucker.
I was eating a teaspoon full and took my glucose readings before and 30 min. Suprised I saw my level rasing vom 80 mg/dl to 93 mg/ dl. I thought sensitive insulin would actually drop my blood suggar level ( at least I thought thats what @richard explained. How can it be raised? There is no suggar in it… I am confused :woman_shrugging:

(Duncan Kerridge) #2

Blood meters are only accurate to within 15% of your actual blood glucose - you could just be seeing a range of values within the error margin. i.e. an actual figure of 85 could read anywhere from 72 to 97

#3

I think if you wanted to do a full test, you could do multiple readings beforehand (once I tested several times within a minute or two just to see the range, and it actually wasn’t very wide - maybe 4 or 5mg) and then do the same thing after the erythritol. If you do this 3 or 4 times, you’ll see some averages or trends that you might be able to work with.

I haven’t tested erythritol (don’t have a good meter at the moment) but I’ve noticed that I get a sore throat when I have it. Nothing major, just a weird discomfort when I swallow. If there’s some kind of inflammatory reaction happening (in me) then I wouldn’t be surprised to see a rise in blood sugar.

#4

Do you have a picture of the ingredients?
What is the serving size?
Did you test beyond 30 minutes to see how long it took to return to baseline?
Try mixing it in a glass of water and comparing the readings to a plain glass of water test.

Glucose meters vary from plasma tests, but they should be fairly consistent when comparing reading from the same meter.

(Duncan Kerridge) #5

I did three tests in a couple of minutes last week to check the consistency of my meter and there was a 10 mg/dl difference between the highest and lowest readings (freestyle optium neo)

#6

Yes, sometimes it’s the batch of test strips that give strange readings too. Would be good for everyone to test their meter and see how consistent it is. I see a difference between the 3 meters I have also.

(Nick) #7

If erythritol appears to be raising your blood glucose, these are the only options:

  1. It’s just the flux of your glucometer, or the strips are variable.
  2. Your blood glucose was going to raise in any case (cortisol etc)
  3. The erythritol is contaminated with a nutritive sweetener or bulker.
  4. You have an utterly unique metabolism which has never been detected in the history of testing polyols (including on highly diabetic people).

As I mentioned elsewhere, erythritol is not able on its own to provoke the pancreas into either an insulin or glucagon response.

(Wenchie) #8

The ingredients are supposed to be pure Erythrit.

I did do readings after it and it did return to my baseline.

I did not concider the strips being the cause as I am not diabetic and am not used to measure my blood. I bought a meter to find out how I react to certain food. So there is a hint and I will try again. Thank you :blush:

Ps: www.xucker.de

(Wenchie) #9

You are right about the throat thing… it feels sore for some reason… weired stuff…