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With type 1 diabetes, balancing insulin with carbs and getting most of your carbs from fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat milk and yogurt is key. Learn how to follow a consistent carb meal plan or adjust insulin for carbs to help keep your child’s blood glucose close to target levels.
This course will show you: How to identify carbohydrate containing foods. How to use tools such as food labels and food lists to count grams of carbohydrates in serving sizes of foods and drinks. How to use an insulin to carbohydrate ratio to calculate how much insulin to give for food.
When you have diabetes, keeping your blood glucose in a healthy range can help you feel your best today and in the future. Carbohydrate counting — or “carb counting” — is a flexible meal-planning tool (not a diet) that can help you understand how your food choices afect your blood glucose level.
Reading Food Labels There are two steps to follow when reading food labels to count carbohydrates: 1. Look at the serving size for the food. This is located at the top of the label. 2. Look at the total carbohydrate amount. This is located towards the middle of the label. These two parts of the label tell you what you need to know.
The nutrition facts panel on the food label is the best source of accurate carb information. If a food item has a label, please use the information on the label. The carbohydrate information on a food label is for the portion size listed on the label, found just under NUTRITION FACTS.
Food Label Math Fun. Serving Sizes help us make smart choices. Let’s look at the food label example on this page. If a package has 2 servings in one box. The serving size says 1 cup. If you ate the whole package, you would have eaten 2 servings or 2 cups. Now look at the calories for one serving.
In meal planning, 1 serving of a food with carbohydrate has about 15 grams of carbohydrates. Take these steps: Check serving sizes with measuring cups and spoons or a food scale. Read the nutrition facts on food labels to find out how many grams of carbohydrates are in the foods you eat.
