Honey and Diabetes Questions

Raw honey is not different. Your liver cares not a bit if the honey is pasteurized or not. One Tablespoon still equals around 20 carbs, and has to be accounted for accordingly in the blood sugar management.

Sadly the ongoing long term search for a miracle sweetener that diabetics can enjoy eludes us still. Which shouldn’t be a surprise since sweeteners aren’t good for anyone. Why would they be good for diabetics?

And for adjusting the blood sugar it is better to use fructose, it has a lower glycemic index than glucose and sucrose.

Of course on the occasions when my dad has been slipping into a diabetic coma I have happily poured down his throat whatever carb I could get.

But in a general diet? Only as a treat.