Carrots

[AmyBoz]

Do you find carrots to be a satisfying snack? I don't. I love carrots. I LOVE them. I just ate 7 of them (not baby carrots, real, peeled carrots) about 1/2 hour ago, and I think that I may possibly be hungrier than I was before. Why do you think that is?

[homesteadmamma]

Amy I love carrots too. I find them filling if I drink water with them. However, if I don't I could eat a bag of them. Not sure if that will help you though.

[AmyMCGS]

I don't find them filling at all. I'll eat the baby carrots if they're here, but, they don't do anything to curb my hunger, so I don't buy them often.

[guest7]

Amy- carrots actually cause hunger pains with me. I was going to try to eat a whole bag and see if hunger pain was still there! I'm going to have to research why that is. I thought I was the only one!

[canadian gardener]

Carrots are very high in natural sugars which is why they are a sweet tasting veggie. Along with beets and corn and peas.

Because of that, even with all the fibre, and don't get me wrong here, carrots raw and cooked are a wonderful food, full of good stuff

but they may trigger hunger, because of the way sugar or easily broken down simple starches work in the body.

They trigger an insulin spike.

Its a high glycemic index thing.

Eating a bunch of raw carrots may liberate enough sugars and simple quick to digest starch that your insulin surges

and you feel hungry, possibly shaky, and very empty.

[canadian gardener]

People's bodies are all very different.

Some digest everything slowly, or their body doesn't produce insulin spikes.

I find carrots are similar for me.

For someone with surges of insulin, snacking on proteins along with fiber sources is better than having a fruit or a veggie alone.

So try accompanying the carrot with :

some cheese

or some nuts

or a spoonful of peanut butter

or a TBSP of cottage cheese

or a TBSP of salmon or tuna

or a hardboiled egg

all of which help me. And even better, keep a big bag of organic ready to eat salad greens in the fridge and get the veggie and fiber from them because they don't have the sugars in them that carrots do.

However I just put a protein with the carrots and I'm fine.

Speaking from experience.

[guest7]

Margery- what a great idea!!!!