Hi guys, this is Petrina your go to girl for learning how to make fit work in a crazy busy
world, and this week instead of doing a weekly cycling carb adventure vlog I’m going to
do a science experiment.
For the past two months of carb cycling and doing carb nite solution I have stayed completely
away from one of my favorite treats and that is quest bars.
For carb cycling it was because I was trying to stay away from various processed foods,
for carb nite it was because Kiefer has talked about research indicating that quest bar for
some reason can impact your blood sugar and your insulin levels.
So I wanted to see whether or not it will impact my own self, so I’m doing a little
science experiment with me where I have my blood glucose actually tested last week and
I got a 76 which for non fasting glucose test they say should have less than 140, the test
lady even asked me, she’s like did you eat anything this morning?
I’m like yeah I did, I had my typical low carb in breakfast which is 2 slices of bacon
and a mock cheese danish which is basically egg and whipped cream cheese mixed together,
so my non fasting glucose was pretty well.
I’m curious to see what impact any quest bar will have on the blood glucose level.
If you’ve ever seen quest bars on the store you may note how it brags that it’s usually
between 3 and 5 net carbs which is the amount of total carbohydrates minus the fiber.
Quest bars are ridiculously high in fiber for example my favorite which is the vanilla
almond crunch has 21g of carbohydrates, the dietary fiber content is 18g and there is
one 1g of sugar.
Most of the fibers in the quest bars are coming from isomalto-oligosaccharides which are prebiotic
fiber derived from a plant source.
You subtract the dietary fiber from the total carbohydrates if I’m correct it gives 3g
of net carbs so you will think that it would have minimal impact on your blood glucose
level.
I’m going to experiment and go get another blood glucose test taken.
I’m going to have this as my breakfast and be tested within a 1-2 hour timeframe after
eating the quest bar, so I’m curious to see how this is going to wind up.
I will report back tomorrow.
So it’s about 8:30, I’m going to eat my quest bar and then head over to the free health
screening and see where my bold glucose is at about an hour after I eat it.
And we’re now a little over an hour after when I ate the quest bar, I went in and got
my blood glucose level tested and it turned out to be 101 which was about 25 more than
when I had my regular ultra low carb breakfast.
So I’m a bit unpleasantly surprised because I was actually hoping that there wouldn’t
be an increase or that it would be like a really small increase because for me when
you look at the quest bar the big selling point is the fact that the net carbs are so
low and with that you’d presume that it really would not have an impact on your
blood glucose level.
So I really do love the taste of quest bars, I love the vanilla almond crunch but it does
give the cause for pause knowing that it has had an impact on my blood glucose level.
I don’t know, what do you think?
Do you think it’s a big deal or I’m worrying over nothing?
But that is the result of my little quest bar science experiment.
As always if you have any question you can shoot me an email at coachpetrina@yahoo.com.
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That’s it, take care and happy Halloween everybody.