Thank you. I just threw out my microwave popcorn and won't be eating any more popcorn! (NO REGRETS!) I will start 'snacking' on hard-boiled eggs which I do enjoy. This has been one the most beneficial videos I've watched on TH-cam! Thank you again! 🙏🏼😊
Ok so now I am envisioning me sneaking in boiled eggs to the movie theater. 😅 Or better yet...get a contract to provide theaters with prepared boiled eggs and almond snacks.
You're a most pleasant speaker with no trace of the horrid modern speech deformities i.e. "like" and "upspeak" and "voice fry" etc. An added bonus, you don't gesticulate wildly with each word as if you were explaining to a mentally deficient audience. Thank you for the info and for the pleasing delivery.
What a great idea to check meals and snacks this way. I'm curious to try some of my favorites. One year our family was on a very low budget and we would have meals of popcorn (cheap), apples (from our own trees), and cheese (WIC help). It's actually still one of our family favorites 20 years later, and I'm in a financial place now that I could check this out to see how those things all balance out together. I appreciate Levels way of letting people do what is affordable.
As a doctor promoting LCHPMF and Intermittent Fasting I often encourage patients to have 1 square of dark chocolate to satisfy that sweet craving after dinner. If you take the 1 square and break it into 4 pieces, you now have 4 chocolate bites, but only at ~4 carbs and you satify the cravings. To make the comparison fair you had to have 3 squares. THis was a great demonstration and a reason I promote the use of CGMs as well. Nicely done! -Compton Kurtz MD
Great video. I am a diabetic, so I check my sugar at least 2 or more times a day. My go to snack is a hard boiled egg. I have learned to read the labels on any packaged snacks I buy. There is so much out there that we are buying and thinking they are a pretty healthy snack. I want to thank you for making us aware of what is best for us to reach our healthy goals.
So, cool you did this, and thank you. I have had a love of gorging on popcorn forever. I cut it out, but then added it back in, non GMO, organic, etc....but had to cut it out again, and now know why! I have a huge food addiction reaction after indulging that can last 2-4 DAYS. From your comparisons I understand why. My body really likes low carb, decent fat and protein levels with tons of greens and low carb veggies! Great experiment.
Thank you so much for these tests and all the videos. I really enjoy your calm, no nonsense, honest way of delivering information. I have been eating ketogenically for 2 months and have seen a steady & struggle-free weight loss. I wore a CGM monitor in the beginning two weeks and noticed that I had nocturnal (non-diabetic) hypoglycemia, which surely contributed to me not sleeping very well. After just 4 days of following the diet, it completely went away. Since then, my blood sugar was in a healthy range 100% of the time. Seeing this motivates me to stay on track and I would encourage people to try wearing one at least for a while.
Thank you for doing a video on this. This really helps me understand how food causes a change to blood sugar. This video has helped me understand it better.
Thats easy, kimchi & olives are very low in carbs + high fiber. Kimchi you can easily make yourself. Plain yogurt has carbs and absorbs quickly but ok in small amounts bc of fat. Fruited is Terrible
Proteins don’t raise BG. In a salad it’s the dressing that could have sugar and be the problem. If vegetables are low carb they’re fine snd the fiber is great.
Wow, what an interesting and informative video. Thanks for eating all that popcorn, and the chocolate, first thing in the morning. If you are up for it, more comparisons of different so called health snacks would be appreciated.
This has been a fantastic exercise thank you Dr. Becky! I would like to see it go further, for example~ comparing different nuts and different raw vegetables. Sometimes you just need a little snack and I’d love to feel very confident the snack choice I was making wasn’t going to spike my blood sugar significantly. 🙏🏻
I eat a solid piece of virgin coconut oil out of the fridge when I have a craving for a small snack. It is satiating, tastes good and gives a near instantaneous boost in ketones.
Thank you for the info on that glucose gadget. I have heard of them and you are first to show how to get them if not diabetic. But yeah ouch the cost! Seems so unfair. That is a chunk to work into a budget .
If budget is an issue, please consider just getting a finger prick glucose monitor. But the one that has cheap test strips. I buy 100 strips for $20 and test my glucose several times a day before a meal and at 1hr and 2 hrs after a meal. It helped me to eliminate supposedly healthy stuff that spiked my glucose a lot
A better popcorn test would have been one that was more realistic, like eating buttered popcorn. For example, adding a tablespoon of butter to three cups of popcorn would have been closer to what one would eat in real life, and still kept the total calories to about 200.
It is always interesting to watch people defend their favorite carb-loaded snacks. My friend insists that the sugar laden granola bar he eats for lunch every day is a health food, even as his A1c score increases every year.
You are spot on about how food affects different people differently. It even affects the same person differently. Before I went keto/IF my blood sugar spiked higher and longer on the same exact food.
We don‘t sit down and snack on an amount of butter - Well, that‘s exactly what i‘m doing. Not a whole tablespoon, but about 5 to 10 grams a couple of times in a day. It keeps me satiated and energized, and it tastes hmmmmm… No more sugar cravings, and it don‘t blew me out of the ketosis state.
Having worn a CGM for a while now, I had already correctly guessed the answer to the question posed and in the order your results provided. It was a good test for those who do not wear a CGM or are new to the diabetic condition. Short sweet and made clear as to the carb to fiber ratio. Excellent.
Great video. I would have loved to see your results with half of the popcorn with butter added. I am IR and diabetic for 20 years but started keto and IF 3 months ago. I have reduced my insulin injections by half so far. I started CGMs 4 months ago. What a blessing! Such an insights for diabetics as to what is going on with foods and your eating schedule! I highly recommend continuous glucose monitors for anyone with IR or diabetes.
I agree, I’d love to see exactly how butter helps because it’s a healthy fat & I’ll bet it helps a lot as long as you don’t eat too much popcorn, as she said.
Thanks for the video! My favorite snack IS popcorn (with butter). Frankly I was not shocked by the results of your testing. I rarely snack; but when I do, it’s buttered popcorn! This is how I justify its healthful effect on me: 1. So pleasurable & satisfying. 2. Does not give me cravings for other “bad” choices. 3. It’s a very infrequent small indulgence. Small in regards to portion, as well as it does not end my world, so to speak. This video has given me that internal nudge to purchase a CGM & membership with Levels. My first test will be a Diet Pepsi or Coke Zero. These two are my kryptonite. 😢
I would love for you to do one of these with the chocolates made with erythritol or allulose or something like that. This was very enlightening. I knew the popcorn was going to spike your blood sugar. Thanks for doing this.
The lindt 85% is the one I usually have a square or two of, however most often along with a handful of nuts. Almond, macadamia, pecans, walnut, etc. Wonder if that makes a difference?
If you put butter on the popcorn and *kept calories constant at 200kcal*, there'd be a huge reduction in the glucose spike, mainly because rather than 6 cups of popcorn it would be a small fraction of that.
I understand the reasons for testing this type of dark chocolate but I would really like to have seen 90 or 95 percent cacao because these are what I have on the rare occasions I eat chocolate. Great video, Becky.
Hi Dr Becky - your videos have been very informative and useful to me in my weight loss efforts. I had a heart attack and bypass surgery 5 years ago so my interests are in: Keto-like diet maintenance coupled with *healthy* trans and saturated fat consumption in view of my coronary artery disease. In the future I would like to see you (maybe) take some of your time in that direction. Thanks!
I'm curious whether eating 3 cups of popcorn (who eats 6 cups at a time?) would have had the same effect, since that amount with butter is what most people really snack on. Also curious about the effects of cheeses. Will conduct my own experiments but thanks for showing the main differences among all of these choices.
Of those four choices I would choose the dark chocolate as the most realistic food to satisfy a sweet craving. But I would go for the 85% or higher cacao for the lower carbs and the nitric oxide benefits making it the most heart healthy of the bunch.
This video was right on time!! I was just thinking of trying popcorn as a snack. (Maybe not now lol) And have been having 1oz of that same dark chocolate after dinner every night.. I have seen weightloss but now I can make some better choices and maybe see quicker results.
This is a surprise. I always thought popcorn was the best snack. I’m reducing immediately how often I eat it. Almonds and hard boiled eggs for snacking is my new go to. Thanks.
Test this please- gently melt 1-1/2 cups virgin coconut oil, add rounded tablespoon turmeric, heaping teaspoon ginger, teaspoon black pepper, teaspoon cayenne pepper ,teaspoon cumin, teaspoon nutmeg, teaspoon allspice, 1/2 teaspoon cardamom, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 oz square of 100% cacao baking chocolate bar , dump in pecan halves dip out with spider or slotted spoon, spread out on parchment and dust heavily with ceylon cinnamon
As a type 2 Diabetic (currently diet controlled with an A1c of 5.4) I had hoped to join a trial to have an endocrinologist implant a cgm in order to find foods worked for me... alas, that wasn't to be. I appreciate your testing!
I’m anxiously waiting for you showing other foods tested in this manner! My wife has seen a few dietitians and many doctors and none has given us this ESSENTIAL advice!!! If you review other foods, a few at a time, please use same title as before and number them starting the next number at 2. I believe that you will get many many subscribers. And what a service and blessing this would be for diabetics.
Throwing out the remainder of my popcorn kernels which I cook on the stove in a mix of EVOO & unsalted butter. Opting for the almonds or toasted walnuts (I usually eat 1/2 of the serving size on pkg); 85-90% dark chocolates & HB eggs.
Wow. You are a soldier eating all that dry popcorn first thing in the morning! Thank you so much. I’m done with popcorn, but hard boiled eggs is one of my favorite snacks and I always have them so thank you for the salute to hard-boiled eggs! 🎉
This is an absolutely wonderful analysis. Appreciate all the great work Dr. Becky does. I love eggs and the combination of fat and protein they provide. I get it. Unfortunately, as someone battling familial hypercholesterolemia and CVD both my cardiologist and lipidologist are saying a big "no-no" when it comes to egg consumption and it's potential impact on my Apo B number. So, trying to manage good blood sugar control with eggs as part of that dynamic and CVD is a challenge. I will be looking into a CGM regardless.
I suffer with the same medical issues as you. I was on a high dose statin (atorvastatin) for years and still had two heart attacks and ended up with 3 stents. I also have type 2 diabetes. I started a very low carb diet about 6 months ago. I eat eggs every day. I had labs drawn recently and the results were amazing. My total cholesterol and triglycerides were down, as was my A1C. Also, for the first time in years I am no longer anemic. I'm sure getting highly processed foods and sweets out of diet had the biggest impact. My PCP and cardiologist were pleased.
I eat an egg for breakfast each day. I’ve found over the years that having protein for breakfast is the only thing that holds me over. So having eggs other than this will cause me to go over the weekly recommended servings.
Interesting. I do use dark choc as an afternoon snack but its 90 or 95% cacao and one or two squares depending on the brand . The intense flavour is self limiting unlike milk choc you dont want more and it pairs well with black coffee. I doubt it would rate as well as almonds or eggs though!
Excellent examples. I was happy to see the good result with almonds as that's one of my regular snacks. I looked at dark chocolate and immediately realized that the sugar content was far too high so I buy keto friendly chocolate with sugar substitutes or make my own which seems to have worked because my numbers are good.
I cannot do popcorn at all and nuts only in small amounts. I found a dark sugar free chocolate and eat two 1 inch squares a day. I do not have diabetes.
I would love ro see many more foods tested on you, to give us a wide range of understanding which foods spike your glucose and which. have a more stable response. Some of us can not afford the cgm, and it would be a great service to all of w us to see the effects of different foods on you, even though it will be different for us individually, it can give us a relative food to food comparison. Thank you for considering this suggestion.
I had almost identical readings on the same Monitor that you use. I also got a very low spike from cashews. Sometimes I'm in the car for hours at a time. My go to travel snack was poptarts and chocolate milk. That one didn't go so well! lol. But I switched to cashews and sugar free muscle milk. Very stable. The monitor is definitely worth getting because everyone is a little bit different. Some foods that are known for spiking, didn't spike mine. But usually the big ones, sugar, corn, white bread, rice, all spike!
Thanks for sharing this study. Did drinking coffee moderate the results in any way? What effect would drinking water at the same time have on these results? I liked learning about insulin sensitive vs resistant persons.
I transitioned myself to dark chocolate, going from 60% cacao to 70%, then to 85% (I eat 1 oz once or twice daily). Now, 70% tastes too sweet to me. You gave 72% cacao a spike score of “4”. What score would you give 85% cacao?
My question also! I am surprised she even tested 72% over a higher cacao dark chocolate being that this channel promotes Keto/LCHF WOE. I only consume 85% & sometimes 90%.
What bugs me with the Libre-2 is that sometimes as I'm testing a food (e.g. testing every 5 minutes) the device gives me an error message that says, "Sensor Error: Glucose reading is unavailable. Try scanning again in 10 minutes." So, I wait 10 minutes and try again, only to get the same error message. By now it's too late to track the food as too much time has gone by. Note: I have used a Libre-2 on four different occasions over the past year or so and every device, at some point in time, has given me this error message.
You can go to your doctor and ask for a prescription...good luck. I have pre-diabetes. The "health" care industry WANTS be to be full type 2. So, the refuse CGM to prediabetics, because reversing insulin resistance messes with their bottom line.
Have you tried testing any "hacks" on your cgm. For example adding cinnamon to food or ACV? Or psyllium husk? Cooking and cooling carbs? Drinking more water with and after the meal?
Thank you, Dr. Becky! I'm learning so much from your videos. I have one question about popcorn, would adding butter AND cinnamon slow the spike and make it more comparable to the chocolate snack?
My dark chocolate only has 11 g carb, not 16 g, and I only eat a tiny bit at a time, so it doesn't spike my insulin. I have adrenal fatigue so I need the slight caffeine boost.
You just got a new subscriber (me). I have retired for 4 years and I watch on average 3 health podcasts a day (about 4,400 over the past 4 years). This has been one of the best podcasts that I have seen. I thought you had to have a prescription to get a CGM so this is good news. I got a colonoscopy 9 years ago but other than that the last time I was at a doctors office was in 1969. Will a CGM work with a cheap android phone?
So when I want to snack, I will eat eggs. Maybe pop-corn eggs i.e. cooked with butter and a fork. Thank you for this analysis. Which confirms my hypothesis that eating popcorn is not better than eating "healthy" chips.
@@feleciawallace8420 I eat the non-GMO ones of course (that's what I meant by "healthy" between comas) but there is a real spike afterwards just like the old goodie healthy popcorn. So I'm going to concentrate on the scrambled eggs instead. An economic way of losing weight, I mean as a snack of course not meaning that I'm going to just eat eggs. I'm like my cats I love snacking.
Thank you. I just threw out my microwave popcorn and won't be eating any more popcorn! (NO REGRETS!) I will start 'snacking' on hard-boiled eggs which I do enjoy. This has been one the most beneficial videos I've watched on TH-cam! Thank you again! 🙏🏼😊
Ok so now I am envisioning me sneaking in boiled eggs to the movie theater. 😅 Or better yet...get a contract to provide theaters with prepared boiled eggs and almond snacks.
@@skybox-101 😂
LOL. Let me know if you need an investor. I might be interested :).
Eggs are nature's super food
I'm going to have to quit eating popcorn while watching football. Can't see myself eating boiled eggs as a snack, tho.
You're a most pleasant speaker with no trace of the horrid modern speech deformities i.e. "like" and "upspeak" and "voice fry" etc. An added bonus, you don't gesticulate wildly with each word as if you were explaining to a mentally deficient audience. Thank you for the info and for the pleasing delivery.
Totally concur!!
I agree!
Skipping or not pronouncing the “T” as in cotton or button…
Yes I came for the insulin information, stayed for her calming voice 😅
What a great idea to check meals and snacks this way. I'm curious to try some of my favorites. One year our family was on a very low budget and we would have meals of popcorn (cheap), apples (from our own trees), and cheese (WIC help). It's actually still one of our family favorites 20 years later, and I'm in a financial place now that I could check this out to see how those things all balance out together. I appreciate Levels way of letting people do what is affordable.
As a doctor promoting LCHPMF and Intermittent Fasting I often encourage patients to have 1 square of dark chocolate to satisfy that sweet craving after dinner. If you take the 1 square and break it into 4 pieces, you now have 4 chocolate bites, but only at ~4 carbs and you satify the cravings. To make the comparison fair you had to have 3 squares. THis was a great demonstration and a reason I promote the use of CGMs as well. Nicely done! -Compton Kurtz MD
What is that LCHPMF. Low carb high fat is LCHF. PM is what? Moderate Protein is MP. Are you moderating fat here?
You have been my fav no-nonsense influencer since 2017❤
Thank you, Kelly! I appreciate your comment!
Mine too. She's the best. I appreciate her tone of voice.
Great video. I am a diabetic, so I check my sugar at least 2 or more times a day. My go to snack is a hard boiled egg. I have learned to read the labels on any packaged snacks I buy. There is so much out there that we are buying and thinking they are a pretty healthy snack. I want to thank you for making us aware of what is best for us to reach our healthy goals.
So, cool you did this, and thank you. I have had a love of gorging on popcorn forever. I cut it out, but then added it back in, non GMO, organic, etc....but had to cut it out again, and now know why! I have a huge food addiction reaction after indulging that can last 2-4 DAYS. From your comparisons I understand why. My body really likes low carb, decent fat and protein levels with tons of greens and low carb veggies! Great experiment.
Thank you so much for these tests and all the videos. I really enjoy your calm, no nonsense, honest way of delivering information. I have been eating ketogenically for 2 months and have seen a steady & struggle-free weight loss. I wore a CGM monitor in the beginning two weeks and noticed that I had nocturnal (non-diabetic) hypoglycemia, which surely contributed to me not sleeping very well. After just 4 days of following the diet, it completely went away. Since then, my blood sugar was in a healthy range 100% of the time. Seeing this motivates me to stay on track and I would encourage people to try wearing one at least for a while.
Thank you for doing a video on this. This really helps me understand how food causes a change to blood sugar. This video has helped me understand it better.
Love these kinds of videos! Real facts 😊
Great video; we always promoted plain popcorn as one of the best snacks you can have, clearly not true.
Thanks, War Hammer!
Thank you Dr. Becky . my conclusion: I love all those snacks...in one sitting. I think I need help and support.
I'd like you to do this with kimchi, kalamata olives and Greek yogurt. Those are my go-to snacks.
Thats easy, kimchi & olives are very low in carbs + high fiber. Kimchi you can easily make yourself. Plain yogurt has carbs and absorbs quickly but ok in small amounts bc of fat. Fruited is Terrible
And blue cheese stuffed olives pls!❤❤❤
Kimchi spikes my blood. Has added sugar
@@svcaramia I'm healthy, so I don't have that issue.
I would love another video like this: raw salad vs fish vs red meat vs cooked vegetables .
Proteins don’t raise BG. In a salad it’s the dressing that could have sugar and be the problem. If vegetables are low carb they’re fine snd the fiber is great.
Protein does increase your blood sugar, just not as fast and elevating as carb. Salad dressing is the biggest culprit for sure.
Wow, what an interesting and informative video. Thanks for eating all that popcorn, and the chocolate, first thing in the morning. If you are up for it, more comparisons of different so called health snacks would be appreciated.
Seeing is believing, great vid! Celery with peanut butter? Apple slices and cheese (and wine?)?? Cream cheese and ham rollups?
This has been a fantastic exercise thank you Dr. Becky! I would like to see it go further, for example~ comparing different nuts and different raw vegetables. Sometimes you just need a little snack and I’d love to feel very confident the snack choice I was making wasn’t going to spike my blood sugar significantly. 🙏🏻
I eat a solid piece of virgin coconut oil out of the fridge when I have a craving for a small snack. It is satiating, tastes good and gives a near instantaneous boost in ketones.
Thank you for the info on that glucose gadget. I have heard of them and you are first to show how to get them if not diabetic. But yeah ouch the cost! Seems so unfair. That is a chunk to work into a budget .
If budget is an issue, please consider just getting a finger prick glucose monitor. But the one that has cheap test strips. I buy 100 strips for $20 and test my glucose several times a day before a meal and at 1hr and 2 hrs after a meal. It helped me to eliminate supposedly healthy stuff that spiked my glucose a lot
I am grateful for your teaching! I am living strong and healthy as a result of your ministry!
Very interesting. It's better to stick to low GI index. Moving is also very important. I walk everyday
A better popcorn test would have been one that was more realistic, like eating buttered popcorn. For example, adding a tablespoon of butter to three cups of popcorn would have been closer to what one would eat in real life, and still kept the total calories to about 200.
Try reading what I wrote before you answer.
It is always interesting to watch people defend their favorite carb-loaded snacks. My friend insists that the sugar laden granola bar he eats for lunch every day is a health food, even as his A1c score increases every year.
You are spot on about how food affects different people differently. It even affects the same person differently. Before I went keto/IF my blood sugar spiked higher and longer on the same exact food.
We don‘t sit down and snack on an amount of butter - Well, that‘s exactly what i‘m doing. Not a whole tablespoon, but about 5 to 10 grams a couple of times in a day. It keeps me satiated and energized, and it tastes hmmmmm…
No more sugar cravings, and it don‘t blew me out of the ketosis state.
Thanks Becky for your impressive snacking…👏🏻
Pls do another snacks video I'd like to see more snacks reviewed this way
Great info on the level system and glucose response to various snacks. I like your calm demeanor during the presentation.
Thank You. I'm very happy popcorn is not my choice of a snack. Mine are RAW Almonds, cashews, walnuts & pecans. I also have pistachios with Sea Salt.
Having worn a CGM for a while now, I had already correctly guessed the answer to the question posed and in the order your results provided. It was a good test for those who do not wear a CGM or are new to the diabetic condition. Short sweet and made clear as to the carb to fiber ratio. Excellent.
Great video. I would have loved to see your results with half of the popcorn with butter added. I am IR and diabetic for 20 years but started keto and IF 3 months ago. I have reduced my insulin injections by half so far. I started CGMs 4 months ago. What a blessing! Such an insights for diabetics as to what is going on with foods and your eating schedule! I highly recommend continuous glucose monitors for anyone with IR or diabetes.
I agree, I’d love to see exactly how butter helps because it’s a healthy fat & I’ll bet it helps a lot as long as you don’t eat too much popcorn, as she said.
Thanks for the video!
My favorite snack IS popcorn (with butter). Frankly I was not shocked by the results of your testing. I rarely snack; but when I do, it’s buttered popcorn! This is how I justify its healthful effect on me:
1. So pleasurable & satisfying.
2. Does not give me cravings for other “bad” choices.
3. It’s a very infrequent small indulgence. Small in regards to portion, as well as it does not end my world, so to speak.
This video has given me that internal nudge to purchase a CGM & membership with Levels. My first test will be a Diet Pepsi or Coke Zero. These two are my kryptonite. 😢
don't feel bad about eating buttered popcorn. there are worse things you could do. like being a serial killer or a Vegan or something...
I would love for you to do one of these with the chocolates made with erythritol or allulose or something like that. This was very enlightening. I knew the popcorn was going to spike your blood sugar. Thanks for doing this.
That would have been a better example. Most diabetics or people with insulin resistance know not to consume sugar
Yes, please. Monkfruit and stevia.
Tears are running down my cheeks over seeing the results of the popcorn.
Very cool video. Wow! Thank you!
Very interesting, thank you for testing all these great snacks. You chose perfectly as the test results show, with that great variety of results.
Thank you Dr. Becky! I always enjoy the useful information you share.
This video was so helpful! I eat a lot of eggs. I do also snack on a piece of Sam's Choice or Lindt 90% or Lindt 95% chocolate at times.
The lindt 85% is the one I usually have a square or two of, however most often along with a handful of nuts. Almond, macadamia, pecans, walnut, etc. Wonder if that makes a difference?
This is a great video! You explained everything very thoroughly and logically so it made sense, just like you always do. Thanks for doing it!
If you put butter on the popcorn and *kept calories constant at 200kcal*, there'd be a huge reduction in the glucose spike, mainly because rather than 6 cups of popcorn it would be a small fraction of that.
Such a great video. Thank you Dr. Becky. I'm looking forward to getting my GCM.
I have an egg allergy so they are out but appreciate knowing that almonds are ok.
there is a huge different between dark choc ,you can buy 100% which could have 12g sugar or you can buy dark choc 55% with has 50g of sugar
I understand the reasons for testing this type of dark chocolate but I would really like to have seen 90 or 95 percent cacao because these are what I have on the rare occasions I eat chocolate. Great video, Becky.
THANKS Dr Becky, Great Topic... !
This was great, you should do more of these.
Hi Dr Becky - your videos have been very informative and useful to me in my weight loss efforts. I had a heart attack and bypass surgery 5 years ago so my interests are in: Keto-like diet maintenance coupled with *healthy* trans and saturated fat consumption in view of my coronary artery disease. In the future I would like to see you (maybe) take some of your time in that direction. Thanks!
I'm curious whether eating 3 cups of popcorn (who eats 6 cups at a time?) would have had the same effect, since that amount with butter is what most people really snack on. Also curious about the effects of cheeses. Will conduct my own experiments but thanks for showing the main differences among all of these choices.
Target (Target brand), has popcorn with on 3 ingredients (popcorn, himalayan salt and olive oil). 35 calories per cup. Taste pretty good to me.
Of those four choices I would choose the dark chocolate as the most realistic food to satisfy a sweet craving. But I would go for the 85% or higher cacao for the lower carbs and the nitric oxide benefits making it the most heart healthy of the bunch.
Maybe pair it with some nuts?
@@lkerbster4949 Pistachios!
This video was right on time!! I was just thinking of trying popcorn as a snack. (Maybe not now lol) And have been having 1oz of that same dark chocolate after dinner every night.. I have seen weightloss but now I can make some better choices and maybe see quicker results.
That was fun. Loved the tests and solid info.
This is a surprise. I always thought popcorn was the best snack. I’m reducing immediately how often I eat it. Almonds and hard boiled eggs for snacking is my new go to. Thanks.
Test this please- gently melt 1-1/2 cups virgin coconut oil, add rounded tablespoon turmeric, heaping teaspoon ginger, teaspoon black pepper, teaspoon cayenne pepper ,teaspoon cumin, teaspoon nutmeg, teaspoon allspice, 1/2 teaspoon cardamom, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 oz square of 100% cacao baking chocolate bar , dump in pecan halves dip out with spider or slotted spoon, spread out on parchment and dust heavily with ceylon cinnamon
As a type 2 Diabetic (currently diet controlled with an A1c of 5.4) I had hoped to join a trial to have an endocrinologist implant a cgm in order to find foods worked for me... alas, that wasn't to be. I appreciate your testing!
Thank you for doing this and sharing your results!
I actually do snack on butter. I make brown butter bites and eat a couple when I get a little craving. Very satiating.
What a great video! You anticipated my questions on each food item! Thank you
Great video, explains a lot in an easily digestible way. Thanks for the real information.
Thanks for letting me know the dangers of popcorn and burnt ,food,I'm thankful you have made these great videos.
Very interesting! If boiled eggs are only a 9, I wonder what foods would be a 10?
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I still would have liked to have seen the actual result of the popcorn with butter, to see what happened with blood sugar.
Lol I suspected the eggs would be the best but expected the chocolate to spike the most. Thanks for your vids
I’m anxiously waiting for you showing other foods tested in this manner! My wife has seen a few dietitians and many doctors and none has given us this ESSENTIAL advice!!! If you review other foods, a few at a time, please use same title as before and number them starting the next number at 2. I believe that you will get many many subscribers. And what a service and blessing this would be for diabetics.
Throwing out the remainder of my popcorn kernels which I cook on the stove in a mix of EVOO & unsalted butter. Opting for the almonds or toasted walnuts (I usually eat 1/2 of the serving size on pkg); 85-90% dark chocolates & HB eggs.
Wow. You are a soldier eating all that dry popcorn first thing in the morning! Thank you so much. I’m done with popcorn, but hard boiled eggs is one of my favorite snacks and I always have them so thank you for the salute to hard-boiled eggs! 🎉
It would be interesting to see how results may or may not differ between people who are fat-adapted and those who eat the standard diet.
Great video 👍🏽👍🏽👏👏This provides us idea on what great snack should be.
Excellent experiment and presentation! Please do more comparisons!
This is an absolutely wonderful analysis. Appreciate all the great work Dr. Becky does. I love eggs and the combination of fat and protein they provide. I get it. Unfortunately, as someone battling familial hypercholesterolemia and CVD both my cardiologist and lipidologist are saying a big "no-no" when it comes to egg consumption and it's potential impact on my Apo B number. So, trying to manage good blood sugar control with eggs as part of that dynamic and CVD is a challenge. I will be looking into a CGM regardless.
I suffer with the same medical issues as you. I was on a high dose statin (atorvastatin) for years and still had two heart attacks and ended up with 3 stents. I also have type 2 diabetes. I started a very low carb diet about 6 months ago. I eat eggs every day. I had labs drawn recently and the results were amazing. My total cholesterol and triglycerides were down, as was my A1C. Also, for the first time in years I am no longer anemic. I'm sure getting highly processed foods and sweets out of diet had the biggest impact. My PCP and cardiologist were pleased.
Wow! Thank you for this eye opening video.
The good news is that I love boiled eggs, the bad news is that I love dark chocolate.
You can find dark chocolate eggs around Easter time. It's probably the perfect food.
So you've gotta wonder what the impact would be of eating a hard boiled egg immediately followed by your ounce of dark chocolate???
Great video. Thank you. Would be great if you can few more snack types - amongst nuts, seeds and fruits etc.
I eat an egg for breakfast each day. I’ve found over the years that having protein for breakfast is the only thing that holds me over. So having eggs other than this will cause me to go over the weekly recommended servings.
Interesting. I do use dark choc as an afternoon snack but its 90 or 95% cacao and one or two squares depending on the brand . The intense flavour is self limiting unlike milk choc you dont want more and it pairs well with black coffee. I doubt it would rate as well as almonds or eggs though!
Thank you Is Lindt 90 pc good to snack on one or two squares daily as it’s my only indulgence
Excellent examples. I was happy to see the good result with almonds as that's one of my regular snacks. I looked at dark chocolate and immediately realized that the sugar content was far too high so I buy keto friendly chocolate with sugar substitutes or make my own which seems to have worked because my numbers are good.
I cannot do popcorn at all and nuts only in small amounts. I found a dark sugar free chocolate and eat two 1 inch squares a day. I do not have diabetes.
I can't find how to join the research study. Has anyone else found it? (btw, THANK YOU DR BECKY!!!)
I would love ro see many more foods tested on you, to give us a wide range of understanding which foods spike your glucose and which. have a more stable response.
Some of us can not afford the cgm,
and it would be a great service to all of w us to see the effects of different foods on you, even though it will be different for us individually, it can give us a relative food to food comparison.
Thank you for considering this suggestion.
Thanks for doing this valuable comparison.
Such great information I was given a levels CGM for my birthday haven’t used it yet,a little nervous about what it’s going to tell.
Thank you so much Doc for sharing this information 🙏
I had almost identical readings on the same Monitor that you use. I also got a very low spike from cashews. Sometimes I'm in the car for hours at a time. My go to travel snack was poptarts and chocolate milk. That one didn't go so well! lol. But I switched to cashews and sugar free muscle milk. Very stable. The monitor is definitely worth getting because everyone is a little bit different. Some foods that are known for spiking, didn't spike mine. But usually the big ones, sugar, corn, white bread, rice, all spike!
I like your ways Dr Becky
Thanks for sharing this study. Did drinking coffee moderate the results in any way? What effect would drinking water at the same time have on these results? I liked learning about insulin sensitive vs resistant persons.
Thank you for this very informative video. ❤❤❤
I transitioned myself to dark chocolate, going from 60% cacao to 70%, then to 85% (I eat 1 oz once or twice daily). Now, 70% tastes too sweet to me. You gave 72% cacao a spike score of “4”. What score would you give 85% cacao?
My question also! I am surprised she even tested 72% over a higher cacao dark chocolate being that this channel promotes Keto/LCHF WOE. I only consume 85% & sometimes 90%.
What bugs me with the Libre-2 is that sometimes as I'm testing a food (e.g. testing every 5 minutes) the device gives me an error message that says, "Sensor Error: Glucose reading is unavailable. Try scanning again in 10 minutes." So, I wait 10 minutes and try again, only to get the same error message. By now it's too late to track the food as too much time has gone by. Note: I have used a Libre-2 on four different occasions over the past year or so and every device, at some point in time, has given me this error message.
You can go to your doctor and ask for a prescription...good luck. I have pre-diabetes. The "health" care industry WANTS be to be full type 2. So, the refuse CGM to prediabetics, because reversing insulin resistance messes with their bottom line.
Very clear explanation.🙌
I love your videos I watch your videos over and over
That's great to hear, Shelly!
Thank u doc, this helps a lot.. very informative..👍
Have you tried testing any "hacks" on your cgm. For example adding cinnamon to food or ACV? Or psyllium husk?
Cooking and cooling carbs?
Drinking more water with and after the meal?
Great information, thanks! Subscribed...
@dr becky can you do a test on frutose like fresh berries, avocados and frozen berries
Thank you, Dr. Becky! I'm learning so much from your videos. I have one question about popcorn, would adding butter AND cinnamon slow the spike and make it more comparable to the chocolate snack?
Please do more of these
Great video, very informative. 👍
My dark chocolate only has 11 g carb, not 16 g, and I only eat a tiny bit at a time, so it doesn't spike my insulin. I have adrenal fatigue so I need the slight caffeine boost.
Very informative
You just got a new subscriber (me). I have retired for 4 years and I watch on average 3 health podcasts a day (about 4,400 over the past 4 years). This has been one of the best podcasts that I have seen. I thought you had to have a prescription to get a CGM so this is good news. I got a colonoscopy 9 years ago but other than that the last time I was at a doctors office was in 1969. Will a CGM work with a cheap android phone?
Welcome to my channel, William! The app is compatible with android or iPhones.
So when I want to snack, I will eat eggs. Maybe pop-corn eggs i.e. cooked with butter and a fork. Thank you for this analysis. Which confirms my hypothesis that eating popcorn is not better than eating "healthy" chips.
Chips -- so hard to give up, they're so unhealthy but very satisfying in-between meals.
@@feleciawallace8420 I eat the non-GMO ones of course (that's what I meant by "healthy" between comas) but there is a real spike afterwards just like the old goodie healthy popcorn. So I'm going to concentrate on the scrambled eggs instead. An economic way of losing weight, I mean as a snack of course not meaning that I'm going to just eat eggs. I'm like my cats I love snacking.