Post Time: 2025-02-18
Error: No content files found.Does Melon Really Have Too Much Sugar For Diabetes? Avoiding melon this summer thinking it has too much sugar? Or, blaming melon when your blood glucose trends a little high. Get the facts on watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew, and share your comments and experiences with delicious melons. Be sure to check out my website - My Book - Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition - Speaking Out About Diabetes - #diabetescontroltips #diabetes_treatment #tobysmithson #diabetesmanagement #fixmybloodsugar If you are new here, I'm Toby Smithson, a dietician, diabetes educator, and a person living with diabetes. Successfully living with diabetes. Please hit subscribe on my YouTube see this website channel here at DiabetesEveryDay. This channel is all about diabetes. Type 1, Type 2 diabetes, and how to successfully manage diabetes, enjoying life and living it to its fullest. So join me and hit subscribe. So summertime is here. Yeah. One of my favorite seasons of the year. And interestingly, I've been getting a lot of questions about melon from my patients, wondering if they could have melon or actually thinking they can't have melon. Many people, especially talking about watermelon, thinking there's too much sugar in watermelon. So I wanted to have this conversation with you to get the facts out and get the facts straight. just click First of all, a couple of lessons to learn. We're looking at total grams of carbohydrate when we're looking at a food product, not grams of sugar. So the grams of sugar are added into the total grams of carbohydrate. So for watermelon, for example, the serving size is actually one and one-quarter cups of cubed watermelon, which to me, I think that's a nice serving. And for honeydew and cantaloupe, it's a serving of one cup cubed. Still, a really nice serving. So we're not talking about grams of sugar when we're looking at foods, but we're looking at total grams of carbohydrate. And these portions that I just mentioned are 15 grams of carbohydrate portion sizes and that's what we use for carb counting. And it makes doing the math a little bit easier by doing 15-gram increments. So when we're talking about a serving size sites of food, we usually are referring to for grams of carbohydrate 15. So, facts: one and one-quarter cup of watermelon is a serving of carbohydrate or 15 grams of carbohydrate and one cup of cubed cantaloupe or honeydew is also a serving. I want to make sure that we're including fruits in our diet. After all, they provide lots of vitamins and nutrients. That important point, though, when we're looking at carbohydrates and managing blood sugar readings, is that we can have a serving of melon-like this. We just can't have the whole melon.