Lucky with sweeteners?

(Crippie) #1

Using the 2ketodudes method I have tested just about all the sweeteners I can get my hands on. Stevia, erythritol, aspartame, sucralose, sacharin, monk fruit, and had no reaction to any. Checked before eating and then at 30mins and an hour. Just about every measurement was within 5% of each other.

I’ve always heard horrible things about Maltitol and how it’s notorious for spiking blood glucose. I watched the Keto connect video on sweeteners and saw the same results I have always heard. I’ve never found a Maltitol sweetener but found a snack bar I enjoyed that was sweetened with 10g of it. So I tested this morning and saw a similar reaction.

T0-96mg/dL
T30-94mg/dL
T60-98mg/dL

Am I just a lucky one who seems to have no reaction to sweeteners? I hear so many bad stories about Maltitol that I found it hard to believe it wouldn’t affect me.

Still haven’t tried xylitol since I don’t trust that around my dogs and haven’t tried allulose because i haven’t found it anywhere. So might react to those I suppose.

(Ethan) #2

Are you T2DM?

(Crippie) #3

Nope. No meds or anything. Not diabetic at all. Although I’m sure I’d have gotten there in the next 10 years had I not switched to Keto

#4

Sweeteners haven’t really affected me either. I use swerve and stevia drops.

(Crippie) #5

I mostly use truvia, a mix of stevia and erythritol. But use stevia drops a lot too.

I use some of the others when making Keto desserts or stuff like that. I really have just been testing for my own curiosity

(Ethan) #6

I’d bet part of the reaction is tied to how well you process glucose. The real question isn’t what the blood glucose does, but what insulin does. If you are able to keep the numbers down with a ton of insulin, you could still be inhibiting ketosis.

#7

When I do eat a sweet treat, I usually keep it to just one serving per day.

Perhaps if I ate a bunch of stuff cooked with these sweeteners, I’d have a bad reaction.

People seem to think that you can’t ever have a small sweet snack, but I think it won’t hurt anyone if they indulge once a day (or every few days) and make sure the serving isn’t too big.

(Crippie) #8

I though that’s what the T60 recording was for? If blood glucose doesn’t spike but you have an insulin response then it would go down ?

(Crippie) #9

I too try to keep sweet treats to a minimum. But take a little sweetener in my morning BPC. Tried to break it but just haven’t been able too.

(Ethan) #10

blood glucose wouldn’t spike because of the insulin response itself!

(Pete A) #11

Artificial sweeteners have no affect on me (that I’m aware).

(Crippie) #12

But that’s what the T30 is supposed to detect? Get the baseline at 0 and then see if it’s spiked by 30 then if it hasn’t see if it has dropped by 60 to see if insulin spiked from idiopathic response.

Is there another way to test ? Fairly new to testing with a meter.

Ketones are only at 0.5mmol but I expected those to be on the low side due to some snacks from the Super Bowl kicking me out of ketosis

(3c6f21097d06511a9e23) #13

I’m also okay with Stevia it appears. Im on no meds, keto for health and weight maintenance.
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