I have gone back and forth with using glucose tablets versus candy/food a few times over the years. The biggest benefit for me is that they contains pure glucose, exactly what’s needed to treat a low, nothing more, nothing less. Did you know that even table sugar, sucrose, is half glucose and half fructose? Fructose follows a different metabolic path, via the liver, than glucose. I don’t know of any commercial candy that contains glucose or dextrose only.
Glucose tabs are measured amounts that my low-addled brain can understand. I’ve even taken to eating less than one tab to nudge a trending low with little power behind it. This way I less often over-treat my low, a more common problem with me using food.
I understand the convenience and taste preferences for things like Skittles. The ingredient list for Skittles, however, makes me pause.
Skittles’ ingredients are: Sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, apple juice from concentrate, less than 2% - citric acid, dextrin, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors, coloring (includes yellow 6 lake, red 40 lake, yellow 5 lake, blue 2 lake, yellow 5, red 40, yellow 6, blue 1 lake, blue 1), ascorbic acid (vitamin c).
I don’t like to consume corn syrup, especially the high fructose corn syrup. Did you know that hydrogenated palm kernel oil is a trans-fat? Trans-fats have been associated with many bad health effects.
@Eric2, I just couldn’t imagine anyone with diabetes not recognizing what a glucose tab looks like. YDMV! The picture and setting may have contributed to the confusion. No, I don’t think the glucose tabs taste like medicine. But they’re not tasty enough for consideration if I want something sweet.