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Cooking & Baking

applegrove

(125,664 posts) Sun Sep 24, 2023, 08:58 PM Sep 2023

When I eat out at a vegetarian restaurant I come [View all]

home and test and my sugars are high. Is there lots of sugar or carbs in a broccoli salad, chick peas, mung bean noodles, saffron rice, and the like? I never cook vegetarian.

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When I eat out at a vegetarian restaurant I come [View all] applegrove Sep 2023 OP

Chick peas, rice, beans, etc. are very high in carbs. Ocelot II Sep 2023 #1

I had all of that. I guess I just assumed a vegetarian applegrove Sep 2023 #3

While high in carbs, the chickpeas & beans are also low-glycemic. nt sl8 Sep 2023 #5

I wasn't thinking in terms of glycemic issues, just about carbs in general Ocelot II Sep 2023 #6

Gotcha. sl8 Sep 2023 #8

Does your sugar spike when you eat other carbs? It seems like someting had a high mitch96 Sep 2023 #2

I'm thinking at a restaurant they add sugars to add to the flavor jimfields33 Sep 2023 #4

Yup, I think your right. I don't go out much and my sugar is fine. Sugar, Fat and salt mitch96 Sep 2023 #7

No, we absolutely do not add "sugars" to "add to flavor". sir pball Sep 2023 #14

The noodles and rice. High in carbohydrates. onecaliberal Sep 2023 #9

Do you know what's in the broccoli salad? Retrograde Sep 2023 #10

Nope. I don't know the recipes. The mayo does not taste like miracle applegrove Sep 2023 #11

I'm type 2, and unless I'm careful, even the chickpeas woodsprite Sep 2023 #12

Restaurant food in general does it for me spinbaby Sep 2023 #13