6-4 Sugar

World 6-4

Slow, Medium, Fast

Glycemic Index

Snail Pace

Some things are pretty slow at raising my BGL.

Panda Pace

Others are a bit faster, but still not that fast.

Cheetah Pace

Then there are the really fast ones.

Any

6-3 Sugar

World 6-3

Food Labels

The Fine Print

I try not to stand there for too long in a shop reading the nutritional labels.

Well I didn’t used to anyway – it’s not the most fun way to shop. And people

6-2 Sugar

World 6-2

Sugar Species

Spotting Them in the Wild

Kittypurrus Sugarus
Pachydermus Syrupus
Tweety-Sweety Rex

Pass the ‘Sugar’ Please

Table sugar, or sucrose, is usually what recipes mean when they use a plain old word like ‘sugar’.

Sucrose is

6-1 Sugar

World 6-1

Knowing by Heart

Being The Go-To Person for Carb Content

I used to love ice-cream – it’s partly genetic.

But I never, ever, ever stopped to read a nutritional label for ice-cream (or anything) before I got t1d.