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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)
Rice, white, steamed, chinese restaurant Grains & Starches 33.9 g Needs care about 88 g Risotto Grains & Starches 24.8 g Use caution about 101 g Roasted corn snack Sweets & Sweeteners 76 g Lower impact about 30 g Roasted dried peas Sweets & Sweeteners 61 g Lower impact about 30 g Rockstar Energy Drink Beverages 12.7 g Use caution about 148 g Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, wheat/cracked wheat Meat, Poultry & Fish 47.3 g Lower impact about 51 g Rolls, hamburger or hot dog, whole wheat Meat, Poultry & Fish 44.9 g Lower impact about 56 g Root Beer Beverages 10.6 g Use caution about 177 g Rosé Wine Beverages 3.8 g Needs care about 148 g Roz Moammar (baked Egyptian rice) Grains & Starches 20.4 g Use caution about 147 g Rummo pasta (gluten-free, cooked) Grains & Starches 26.5 g Lower impact about 100 g S'mores Bar, Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Betty Crocker) Sweets & Sweeteners 80.7 g Lower impact about 31 g Salad Grains & Starches 5.6 g Lower impact about 180 g Salisbury steak with gravy, frozen Meat, Poultry & Fish 6.8 g Lower impact about 63 g Saltah (Yemeni stew) Meat, Poultry & Fish 2.8 g Lower impact about 400 g Samoon bread Grains & Starches 52 g Needs care about 48 g Sauce, steak, tomato based Meat, Poultry & Fish 22 g Lower impact about 34 g Sausage, breakfast sausage, beef, pre-cooked, unprepared Meat, Poultry & Fish 4.6 g Lower impact about 19 g Sausage, meatless Meat, Poultry & Fish 8.1 g Lower impact about 25 g Sausage, smoked link sausage, pork Meat, Poultry & Fish 0.9 g Lower impact about 68 g Sausage, smoked link sausage, pork and beef Meat, Poultry & Fish 2.4 g Lower impact about 85 g Schaer multigrain bread (gluten-free) Grains & Starches 44 g Lower impact about 35 g Schaer white bread (gluten-free) Grains & Starches 46 g Lower impact about 35 g Schar crackers (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 70 g Lower impact about 25 g Scone Sweets & Sweeteners 46 g Needs care about 52 g Seeds, watermelon seed kernels, dried Fruits 15.3 g Lower impact about 108 g Sesame seeds Sweets & Sweeteners 23 g Lower impact about 15 g Shakriya (yogurt stew with meat or chicken) with rice Grains & Starches 16 g Use caution about 188 g Shakriya (yogurt stew with meat or chicken, no rice) Meat, Poultry & Fish 3 g Lower impact about 400 g Sherbet, orange Fruits 30.4 g Lower impact about 74 g Shish Tawook Meat, Poultry & Fish 1 g Lower impact about 300 g Shish tawook sandwich (medium, saj bread) Meat, Poultry & Fish 17.8 g Use caution about 169 g Shishbarak Eggs, Milk & Dairy 15.6 g Use caution about 192 g Shrak bread Grains & Starches 60 g Needs care about 42 g SILK Peach soy yogurt Fruits 18.8 g Needs care about 160 g Skim milk Eggs, Milk & Dairy 5.1 g Lower impact about 250 g Skim milk powder Eggs, Milk & Dairy 52 g Lower impact about 25 g SMART SOUP, french lentil Legumes 9.5 g Lower impact about 283 g Snacks, bagel chips, plain Grains & Starches 66.4 g Lower impact about 28 g Snacks, banana chips Fruits 58.4 g Lower impact about 28 g Snacks, rice cakes, brown rice, buckwheat Grains & Starches 80.1 g Lower impact about 9 g Snacks, rice cakes, brown rice, corn Grains & Starches 81.2 g Lower impact about 9 g Snacks, rice cakes, brown rice, rye Grains & Starches 79.9 g Lower impact about 9 g Snacks, rice cracker brown rice, plain Grains & Starches 81.5 g Lower impact about 9 g Snacks, tortilla chips, nacho cheese Grains & Starches 60.8 g Lower impact about 28 g Snacks, tortilla chips, ranch-flavor Grains & Starches 62.7 g Lower impact about 28 g Snacks, tortilla chips, taco-flavor Grains & Starches 63.1 g Lower impact about 28 g Snickers, Almond Bar (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Grains & Starches 64.1 g Lower impact about 39 g Snickers, Bar, Pumpkin (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Grains & Starches 57.7 g Lower impact about 31 g Snickers, Candy Bar (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Sweets & Sweeteners 61.7 g Needs care about 42 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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