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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)
Lo Mein Grains & Starches 17.1 g Use caution about 146 g Loacker wafer (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 68 g Lower impact about 25 g Longan Fruits 15 g Lower impact about 100 g Low-Fat Milk Eggs, Milk & Dairy 5 g Lower impact about 350 g Low-Fat Yogurt Eggs, Milk & Dairy 7 g Lower impact about 350 g Luqaimat Sweets & Sweeteners 51.3 g Use caution about 47 g Luqaimat with Date Syrup Sweets & Sweeteners — Lower impact about 89 g Lychee Fruits 17 g Lower impact about 100 g M&M's, Candy, Peanut (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Sweets & Sweeteners 60.9 g Needs care about 43 g M&M's, Chocolate Candy (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Sweets & Sweeteners 72 g Lower impact about 26 g Maamoul (2 pcs) Sweets & Sweeteners 58 g Use caution about 41 g Maamoul date-filled Sweets & Sweeteners 55 g Needs care about 44 g Maamoul pistachio-filled Sweets & Sweeteners 50 g Needs care about 48 g Maamoul plain Sweets & Sweeteners 55 g Needs care about 44 g Maamoul walnut-filled Sweets & Sweeteners 52 g Needs care about 46 g Mac & Chicken Sausage Big (Yummy Spoonfuls) Meat, Poultry & Fish 17.7 g Needs care about 169 g Madfoon (Yemeni buried lamb) Meat, Poultry & Fish 21.3 g Use caution about 141 g Madhbi (grilled meat on stone) Meat, Poultry & Fish 21.3 g Use caution about 141 g Maftoul cooked Grains & Starches 26 g Use caution about 96 g Maghrebi Ghraybeh Sweets & Sweeteners 31.5 g Lower impact about 50 g Mandarin Fruits — Lower impact about 264 g Mango Fruits — Lower impact about 187 g Mango + orange juice Beverages 12.2 g Use caution about 164 g Mango juice Beverages 14 g Use caution about 143 g Mango nectar, canned Fruits 13.1 g Needs care about 153 g Mango smoothie (milk) Beverages 9 g Needs care about 256 g Mango smoothie (water) Beverages 10.5 g Needs care about 220 g Mango, ataulfo, peeled, raw Fruits 17.4 g Lower impact about 100 g Mango, dried, sweetened Fruits 78.6 g Use caution about 32 g Mango, tommy atkins, peeled, raw Fruits 15.3 g Lower impact about 100 g Manoushe akkawi cheese Grains & Starches 44.9 g Use caution about 67 g Manoushe cheese (large) Grains & Starches 44.7 g Use caution about 67 g Manoushe cheese (small) Grains & Starches 43.5 g Use caution about 69 g Manoushe labneh Grains & Starches 47.1 g Use caution about 64 g Manoushe with zaatar and cheese Grains & Starches 46 g Use caution about 65 g Manoushe zaatar Grains & Starches 51.5 g Use caution about 49 g Manoushe zaatar (large) Grains & Starches 51.1 g Use caution about 49 g Manoushe zaatar (small) Grains & Starches 51.5 g Use caution about 49 g Mansaf Meat, Poultry & Fish 30 g Use caution about 100 g Mapo Tofu Meat, Poultry & Fish 1.9 g Lower impact about 400 g Maqluba with chicken Meat, Poultry & Fish 28 g Use caution about 107 g Maqluba with meat Meat, Poultry & Fish 28 g Use caution about 107 g Maqrout Sweets & Sweeteners 55 g Use caution about 44 g Maraschino cherries, canned, drained Fruits 42 g Lower impact about 5 g Marmalade, orange Fruits 66.3 g Lower impact about 20 g Marshmallow Flavored Pepsi, Marshmallow (Peeps) Beverages 11.7 g Lower impact about 60 g Martha White Foods, martha white's chewy fudge brownie mix, dry Sweets & Sweeteners 83.6 g Lower impact about 28 g Mashed potato (plain) Grains & Starches 38 g Use caution about 66 g Mate tea (unsweetened) Beverages 0 g Lower impact about 250 g Mayo sauce Sweets & Sweeteners 1 g Lower impact about 20 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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