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Diabetes Food List: What to Eat and What to Limit
This master list brings together every food in the encyclopedia and how it behaves for blood sugar. Rather than a simple "yes/no", each food is rated across three control levels, because a portion that is fine when your HbA1c is well controlled may need trimming when it is high.
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Introduction
This master list brings together every food in the encyclopedia and how it behaves for blood sugar. Rather than a simple "yes/no", each food is rated across three control levels, because a portion that is fine when your HbA1c is well controlled may need trimming when it is high.
Matching Foods
1374 foods currently match this topic, sorted to help you scan quickly.
Food Category Carbs / 100 g Safety Portion (well-controlled)
Grilled fish fillet Meat, Poultry & Fish 0 g Lower impact about 180 g Grilled shrimp Meat, Poultry & Fish 0.5 g Lower impact about 180 g Guava Fruits 14.3 g Lower impact about 300 g Guava juice Beverages 12 g Use caution about 167 g Gulf majboos with chicken Meat, Poultry & Fish 28 g Use caution about 107 g Haagen-Dazs, Artisan Collection Ice Cream, Ginger Molasses Cookie (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 24.5 g Lower impact about 102 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Banana Rum Jam (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 26.7 g Needs care about 98 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Banana Rum Jam (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 26.7 g Needs care about 98 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Bourbon Pecan Praline (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 26.5 g Needs care about 98 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Chocolate Caramelized Oat (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 27.9 g Needs care about 94 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Ginger Molasses Cookie (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 24.5 g Lower impact about 102 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Spiced Pecan Turtle (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 27.4 g Needs care about 95 g Haagen-Dazs, Ice Cream, Tres Leches Brigadeiro (The Haagen-Dazs Company, Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 26.9 g Needs care about 97 g Halawet el Jibn cream no syrup Sweets & Sweeteners 21.2 g Use caution about 113 g Halawet el Jibn cream with syrup Sweets & Sweeteners 28.9 g Use caution about 83 g Halawet el Jibn plain Sweets & Sweeteners 28.9 g Use caution about 83 g Halloumi cheese Eggs, Milk & Dairy 2 g Lower impact about 30 g Halloumi cheese sandwich (small, arabic bread) Grains & Starches 16.3 g Lower impact about 135 g Ham salad spread Meat, Poultry & Fish 10.6 g Lower impact about 15 g Ham, chopped, canned Meat, Poultry & Fish 0.3 g Lower impact about 28 g Ham, chopped, not canned Meat, Poultry & Fish 0 g Lower impact about 28 g Ham, minced Meat, Poultry & Fish 1.8 g Lower impact about 28 g Ham, sliced, restaurant Meat, Poultry & Fish 2.4 g Lower impact about 16 g Haneeth (slow-roasted lamb) Meat, Poultry & Fish 21.3 g Use caution about 141 g Hardee's beef burger Meat, Poultry & Fish 17.3 g Needs care about 173 g Hardee's fried chicken sandwich Meat, Poultry & Fish 23.8 g Use caution about 126 g Harees (wheat and meat porridge) Meat, Poultry & Fish 18.9 g Use caution about 159 g Hawaiian pizza thin slice Grains & Starches 28.3 g Use caution about 106 g Hawawshi Meat, Poultry & Fish 23.1 g Use caution about 130 g Heinz Tomato Ketchup Grains & Starches 29.4 g Lower impact about 17 g Heinz, Tomato Ketchup, Hot & Spicy (Original Chili Co., Inc.) Grains & Starches 23.5 g Lower impact about 17 g Hibiscus drink Beverages 8 g Lower impact about 300 g Higher-Alcohol Beer Beverages 0.3 g Needs care about 356 g Holiday Milk Chocolate Bar (Hershey's) Sweets & Sweeteners 18 g Lower impact about 30 g Homemade corn bread Grains & Starches 76 g Use caution about 33 g Homemade mixed-flour bread Grains & Starches 73.3 g Use caution about 34 g Homemade quinoa bread Grains & Starches 64 g Use caution about 47 g Homemade rice-flour bread Grains & Starches 80 g Use caution about 38 g Honey Sweets & Sweeteners 82 g Lower impact about 15 g HORMEL ALWAYS TENDER, center cut chops, fresh pork Meat, Poultry & Fish 0.8 g Lower impact about 28 g HORMEL Canadian Style Bacon Meat, Poultry & Fish 1.9 g Lower impact about 56 g HORMEL, cure 81 ham Meat, Poultry & Fish 0.2 g Lower impact about 84 g Hot chocolate (cafe) Beverages 16 g Use caution about 144 g Hot chocolate (home) Beverages 13 g Needs care about 178 g Hot Pockets, Breakfast Bites Sandwiches (Nestle USA Inc.) Grains & Starches 30 g Needs care about 83 g Hummus (with tahini) Legumes 14.3 g Lower impact about 250 g Hummus no oil Legumes 23.2 g Needs care about 172 g Hummus with olive oil Legumes 20.9 g Needs care about 191 g Hummus, commercial Legumes 15 g Lower impact about 15 g Hummus, home prepared Legumes 20.1 g Lower impact about 15 g
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Why This Matters
After a meal, carbohydrate is broken down to glucose and absorbed into the blood; insulin then helps move it into cells. Foods that release glucose slowly produce a smaller, steadier rise. HbA1c reflects your average blood sugar over roughly the past three months. It is the anchor for the three control levels used throughout this site.
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Medical disclaimer: This article is for general education and is not medical advice. Ratings and portions are estimates derived from nutritional composition, not measurements of your own glucose response; individual responses vary. If you take insulin, confirm carbohydrate amounts against a nutrition label before dosing. Always follow the guidance of your own physician or diabetes care team.
How these ratings are produced: our safety estimate is derived from each food's nutritional composition — carbohydrate content, fibre, food category and physical form (liquid or solid) — combined with established diabetes nutrition principles and a realistic serving size. They are estimates for planning, not measurements of your own response and not a prescription. Individual responses vary considerably, so always follow your own clinician's advice.
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