Below 7: Chocolate chip and vanilla muffins (success)
Low carb baking with coconut flour lets you eat delicious things without spiking your blood sugar. These muffins make for an excellent dessert and they freeze well. They’re a variant of my low carb blueberry muffins but with 60g of Lindt 85% chocolate chunks instead of the blueberries. Split the mixture in two and add a tablespoon of cacao powder to one half and a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the other half. Or just make it all chocolate. The carb count is roughly 8.5g of carbohydrates and 6.5g of protein per muffin.
Blood sugar and insulin – Day 1
| Before Eating | Blood Glucose and Insulin |
|---|---|
| 15 minutes | 4.6 mmol/l (83 mg/dl) Insulin: 1u of NovoRapid for the carbs pre-bolused by fifteen minutes. |
| After Eating | Blood Glucose |
|---|---|
| 1 hour | 4.9 mmol/l (88 mg/dl) |
| 2 hours | 5.2 mmol/l (94 mg/dl) |
| 3 hours | 5.8 mmol/l (104 mg/dl) |
I was going to bed so I left the blood sugar alone. It’s better to go to sleep in the high fives than the low fours in my opinion. I woke up the next morning at 5.3 mmol/l (95 mg/dl) with a steady graph on the libre, so all was good with the world. I decided to have another muffin. The results were similar.
Blood sugar and insulin – Day 2
| Before Eating | Blood Glucose and Insulin |
|---|---|
| 15 minutes | 5.3 mmol/l (95 mg/dl) Insulin: 1u of NovoRapid for the carbs pre-bolused by fifteen minutes. |
| After Eating | Blood Glucose |
|---|---|
| 1 hour | 5.2 mmol/l (94 mg/dl) |
| 2 hours | 5.6 mmol/l (101 mg/dl) |
| 3 hours | 5.9 mmol/l (106 mg/dl) |
I conclude that muffins is a guilt-free pleasure which can be enjoyed without spiking blood sugar. I’m making an apple and cinnamon variant next.