I’d like to know whether any other T1s have experienced high BGs after consuming even small amounts of soy sauce.
I had steelhead trout fillets for dinner the past two nights with edamame and soy milk, and wound up with BGs in the upper 200s both nights. Carb count was 14 or 15, didn’t factor 4 carbs for soy sauce because I used just about two teaspoons each night. Was kinda surprised by raised BGs.
Although the soy sauce was the low sodium variety, I wonder if it was still enough to make the BGs go catywampus?
Neither soy sauce nor Tamari spikes her. Chinese food from a restaurant is another story. She will go low, then high, so Chinese requires a combo bolus on her pump. She will only eat two Chinese dishes, chicken and broccoli and Lo Mein so we have figured out how to bolus for those two foods and now there is rarely a problem. Chinese sticky rice, which is the rice they give you at a Chinese restaurant, is supposedly 80 grams a cup. We make converted rice and give her that with the Chinese. If you are sure it is soy sauce alone that is spiking you, read the ingredients on the soy sauce, maybe switch brands. If it still spikes, even if no one else has that problem, soy sauce will be problematic for you.
If you have Celiac’s, soy sauce does contain wheat and can cause catywampus.
Upper 200’s in quite a lot for just two teaspoons. Maybe just coincidence? Low or high sodium wouldn’t make a difference in effect.
Do you typically eat that much soy at one meal? Since soy is antagonist to the thyroid & thyroid effects BG, I’m wondering if that may be a link.
Maybe you’re on to something, Gerri. I have eaten edamame in the past, but not in the quantity of the past two nights. I’ll do some experimenting; I have plenty of trout and edamame to last a while, thanks to having shopped at Costco!