Hi all, I'm new to this. Just getting around my new diet and doing pretty well with home baked wholegrain bread with dextrose powder - Nice! Vegimite and peanut butter are my favorite anyway, not being jam person. But:
I like my portions of fruit a day as whole fruit. If we eat two 100gm portions then does that mean we should not have any other fructose even at extremely low % in the day. Seems to me I miss my fruit the most and now feel scared to eat it.
If 2 portions is a maximum a day, is it alright to make smoothies with the whole fruit and natural yoghurt and dextrose as a breakfast meal? Surely we still need the Vit C in out fruit and it is far better than any shop fruit juices?
What about a banana. Are they too sweet to eat a whole one?
Dried fruit is a no no right? as they are fructose concentrate. I miss my raisins in breads etc. Is a little bit ok or better to avoid altogether?
I am finding I am getting low blood sugars and shakes quite often. Is this because I am not eating enough calories or because my insulin is doing its job better without the fructose suppression? I have dextrose in my coffee in the morning (1 1/2 tsp) and normally had a smoothie. Often skip breakfast now but have morning tea or crackers and cheese. Probably the crackers have sugar too? The label does say sugar 3.7 per 100 gms so is that is low isn't it? I also have switched to bacon and eggs or omlete, hope this is ok?
Tomatoes, are they good or bad? Vegetable or fruit?
Also was looking at the Fodmap diet for IBS which includes low fructose and lactose free. Not sure if I need to go down this route but I discovered lactose free regular milk, regular soy milk and rice milk all have small percentage of sugar. How do you tell if this is in the natural form as carbohydrate or sugar replacement if it is just labelled under carbohydrate and sub section - sugar? Sometimes sugar is also under the ingredient list. If this is the case does this mean added sugar? I am now also confused about what lactose free milk to drink.
I have so many questions and will appreciate any answers anyone may be able to offer.
