Jenny stocks unsweetened applesauce pouches for vacation, for lunch boxes, and for her bike rides. Scott grabbed the one he knows, Mott's — and found high-fructose corn syrup as the second ingredient. Same size pouch, three brands, very different numbers.
The estimator wasn't run on this one. Scott walked Meal Bolt out loud: a kid grabbing a pouch at a blood sugar of 120, one unit for every 10 carbs, 1.6 units for the Mott's. He didn't layer a correction, so neither does this page. There's no fat or protein in any of these pouches, so there's no extended wave. 8:27
Jenny's are organic and unsweetened. Scott started with the one he's looking at: a 90-gram pouch of Mott's.
It has natural sugar already, Jenny says. You don't put sugar on your apple slices. (She has a friend who sugars her watermelon. The friend doesn't have diabetes.)
Pouches don't need the fridge until they're opened, so they lived in the stroller when her kids were little, and now they ride in her backpack on the bike. It isn't as fast as dextrose, glucose, candy, or the gels and goos — but during exercise, applesauce can stop a slide down.
Scott: it's gone in fifteen seconds. Do you just pop the insulin in and hope, or over-bolus a little?
Mott's website didn't make the ingredients easy to find. Amazon had the back of the box.
In order.
Both 3.17 ounces. “Who knew there was an exact amount that squeezable applesauce came in?”
50 calories. Scott said the carbs were still a little higher than the Kirkland, but didn't read the number — so it isn't on this page. Unsweetened is the one to look for if you want the apple without the big hit.
The way Scott's mom served it: a pork chop, mashed potatoes, green beans, and applesauce.
The potatoes and the protein take time to break down. Put high-fructose corn syrup applesauce next to them and the shape of that meal changes. Scott's point: sometimes you don't think you're putting sugar on something, and you are — and then you wonder later why.
The numbers that transfer to the next one.
“It's just like eating an apple that's been pureed.”
“So applesauce, you can probably get away with a little bit less of that concern about a really big huge spike.”
“The second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup.”
“Keep in mind that there's a world where you probably don't think you're putting sugar on something, and you are.”
Every number on this page, with your own settings.
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