Calculating QA with Carb/Sugar Content

Would be interested to know on how you calculate the number of QA units of insulin when a label states both the Carbohydrate and sugar content.

You go by the carbohydrate on the label. However, baked beans you go by the sugar content and recently i was advised not to count sweetcorn because of the GI. have a chat with your diabetes dietition.

Hi there. Many thanks. That's what I thought but something was niggling in the back of my mind that you have to take sugar content into account on certain foods.

As I understand it, the Nutritional Values on most packaged food will contain the sugar content and the Total Carbohydrate value (including the sugars). I always use this value to calculate the CPs of a meal, regardless of the Glycaemic Index, which is normally not shown.

Hi Alan. The full carb contact us always how I have calculated and ignored the sugar content. It was just that someone said you have to take the sugar content into account that made me doubt my calculations. It I would be interesting to know why they put the sugar content as well as it only confuses you. Thanks so much for your response. Regards Marje