Quick-sugar food
Because you are at risk for low blood sugar levels, either because you have diabetes or some other health condition that can cause low blood sugar, you need to keep some type of food with you at all times that can quickly raise your blood sugar level. Eating quick-sugar food puts glucose into your bloodstream in about 5 minutes. Any quick-sugar food on this list will raise your blood sugar about 1.7 millimoles per litre (mmol/L) in about 15 to 20 minutes.
Foods that will help raise your blood sugar include the following:
Food
Amount
Table sugar
1 tablespoon
Fruit juice or regular soda pop
½ cup
Fat-free milk
1 cup
Honey or corn syrup
1 tablespoon
Jam
2 tablespoons
Raisins
2 tablespoons
Gum drops
17 small
Life Savers candy
8 pieces
Hard candy
3 pieces
Glucose tablets
3 tablets
Glucose gel
½ tube
| Author: | Monica Rhodes | Last Updated: February 22, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism Andrew Swan, MD, CCFP, FCFP - Family Medicine | |
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