Water, Corn Syrup**, Vegetable Oil (High Oleic Soybean and/or High Oleic Canola), and Less than 2% of Micellar Casein (a Milk Derivative)***, Maltodextrin, Mono- and Diglycerides, Dipotassium Phosphate, Natural & Artificial Flavor, Carrageenan, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium (Non-Nutritive Sweetener). **Adds a Trivial Amount of Sugar. ***Not a Source of Lactose.
Unsweetened or not, there’s enough crap in it to cause issues and milk naturally contains lactose which is sugar.
This is just conjecture on my part, but could it be the caffeine? Maybe caffeine elicits a cortisol response in you which would increase your blood sugar.
Maybe try decaf and see if the same thing happens? 
That’s a possibility. Hard to test, though. I did one cortisol test, and the result was slightly high (according to the test). But with only one test, it’s hard to know what to do with that.
Mine was a blood test you send in, so theoretically you could take one test, drink coffee, wait a bit, take another test. Send both in. But even that might not be valid, as you’d need a baseline (eg, take a test, wait a while without drinking coffee, take another test).
For a while, I thought that coffee was causing higher blood sugar (pre-CGM), so I delayed drinking coffee…and still got a higher blood sugar before drinking. And the coffee didn’t seem to cause an additional blood sugar rise once I did drink it.
pretty sure corn syrup is and is sugar— i think those ingredients are not for the sugar freee version which is here and seems a little better
WATER, COCONUT OIL, 2% OR LESS OF SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE)**, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SALT, SUCRALOSE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, BETA CAROTENE AND RIBOFLAVIN (FOR COLOR).
I figured she could take her blood sugar pre-decaf coffee and then take a blood sugar reading post-decaf and see if it spikes like it does with caffeinated coffee.
It could also be that the serving size makes it seem low carb, but the quantity being used makes it more carbs than realized?
I understand that.; But what does it mean you barely eat? If it’s really little, I am with the others. If I say and fell I barely eat (it doesn’t matter if I eat once a day or 3 or 6 times), I still eat enough - but I lose fat that way, too bad it’s almost impossible for me. Eating to satiety definitely isn’t good enough for me for fat-loss unless I do EVERYTHING right all the time and I am not nearly that perfect. But I tweak things and train myself until I reach success. No matter how many years pass with zero fat-loss. I am super stubborn and I need it.
Too much time passed for you so something must be off… Can’t you change things which may help? Bob had some good ideas! But if you really barely eat, stop it, that just ruins your metabolism and probably causes multiple problems anyway, I would be super annoyed in that situation and it’s probably true for most of us.
It’s a good idea, although coffee is complex. The people who get high triglycerides drinking coffee get them even drinking decaf. Gah!
I’m not saying that would happen here, but you never know.
I switched to decaf long ago and it made no difference in my blood work results
Thank you so much guys for taking the time to answer! Let me tell you, today I drank the coffee with my unsweetened almond milk, and avoid the sugar free coffemate creamer and even the great value stevia and used truvia. I checked my blood and it was good through out the day. I came home at 3:30p and took my ketone levels and they went up to 1.0 which I had not seen since May. I am going to keep checking this week to see what happens. Thanks again to you all.
It shouldn’t even be possible to get up that high from coffee. Somethings up, even if that creamer wasn’t the sugar free version you shouldn’t be able to get that high.
Correct, but not comparable to when somebody is on a GLP-1 agonist and the Glucagon is also being throttled. More insulin, less brakes on it, means BG coming down faster like a normal person. Faster return to baseline, lower A1C. Win Win. Plus in my case no crazy person’s appetite.
Yep. High-fructose corn syrup contains 55% fructose and 45% glucose, whereas regular corn syrup—all forms of sucrose, in fact—contains 50-50 of each.
That is a very good point. Not only that, but under U.S. law, the nutrition label can say 0 g of sugar, if the amount per serving is less than 0.5 g. And the manufacturer is completely free to determine the serving size. Fortunately, the manufacturer still has to list the various types of sugars in the list of ingredients, though they do their best to use confusing euphemisms, such as “agave nectar,” “evaporated cane juice,” and the like.
Yes they were, from Amazon.
The non-sugar free version lists sugar as an ingredient, feel free to check for yourself…
Well then, I’m glad you’re not me. I drink coffee with stevia and heavy cream all day long. No problems, only joy.
I used to drink it black. But I never went back. 
Well, today I measure my blood again and before coffee it was 119 at 4am after coffee with unsweetened almond milk , a little bit of heavy cream and great value stevia by 6am it was 93, I measure my ketones at different times but nothing; however, by 3pm ketones were at 1. I guess it was the Coffee mate. I am glad I came here to ask since I was not checking the labels very meticulously like I am from now on. Again thanks! YOU ROCK!
Glad you found the culprit! I never drank coffee mate, even before keto, because of all the junk in it. Give me real cream or half-and-half or I will just drink it black.
My favorite way to drink coffee is the same as @robintemplin - heavy cream and liquid stevia. I use Truvia when I travel because the packets are so convenient.