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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)
Broasted chicken wings (breaded, skin-on) Meat, Poultry & Fish 7 g Lower impact about 150 g Brown Sugar Sweets & Sweeteners 98 g Use caution about 6 g Brownie Sweets & Sweeteners 55 g Use caution about 44 g Budweiser Beer Beverages 3 g Needs care about 356 g Buffalo Style Chicken (Hot Pockets) Meat, Poultry & Fish 31 g Needs care about 97 g Bugles (original) Sweets & Sweeteners 65 g Lower impact about 30 g Bulgur Grains & Starches 18.6 g Needs care about 254 g BURGER KING, cheeseburger Meat, Poultry & Fish 23.7 g Needs care about 127 g BURGER KING, double cheeseburger Meat, Poultry & Fish 17.4 g Lower impact about 162 g BURGER KING, french fries Grains & Starches 38.7 g Lower impact about 74 g Burrito, beef and bean, frozen Meat, Poultry & Fish 30.8 g Needs care about 97 g Burrito, beef and bean, microwaved Meat, Poultry & Fish 39 g Needs care about 77 g Butter oil, anhydrous Eggs, Milk & Dairy 0 g Lower impact about 13 g Butter, clarified butter (ghee) Eggs, Milk & Dairy 0 g Lower impact about 100 g Butter, salted Eggs, Milk & Dairy 0.1 g Lower impact about 5 g Béchamel sauce Sweets & Sweeteners 10.5 g Needs care about 286 g Cabbage Fruits 6 g Lower impact about 90 g Cabbage salad Grains & Starches 6 g Lower impact about 200 g Caesar dressing sachet Sweets & Sweeteners 4 g Lower impact about 20 g Caesar salad Grains & Starches 8 g Lower impact about 250 g Caesar salad (chicken) Meat, Poultry & Fish 7 g Lower impact about 300 g Caffeine-Free Cola Beverages 10.6 g Use caution about 177 g Cake, cheesecake, commercially prepared Sweets & Sweeteners 25.5 g Lower impact about 28 g Cake, cheesecake, prepared from mix, no-bake type Sweets & Sweeteners 35.5 g Lower impact about 28 g Cake, cherry fudge with chocolate frosting Sweets & Sweeteners 38 g Lower impact about 28 g Cake, chocolate, commercially prepared with chocolate frosting, in-store bakery Sweets & Sweeteners 52.8 g Use caution about 45 g Cake, chocolate, prepared from recipe without frosting Sweets & Sweeteners 53.4 g Use caution about 45 g Cake, coffeecake, creme-filled with chocolate frosting Sweets & Sweeteners 53.8 g Lower impact about 28 g Cake, pudding-type, chocolate, dry mix Sweets & Sweeteners 80.2 g Lower impact about 28 g Campbell's Soup Tomato (Campbell Soup Company) Grains & Starches 16.7 g Lower impact about 120 g Canadian bacon, unprepared Meat, Poultry & Fish 1.3 g Lower impact about 85 g Candies, 5th avenue candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 62.7 g Needs care about 42 g Candies, almond joy candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 59.5 g Needs care about 44 g Candies, caramello candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 63.8 g Lower impact about 35 g Candies, milk chocolate Sweets & Sweeteners 59.4 g Lower impact about 7 g Candies, milk chocolate coated peanuts Sweets & Sweeteners 49.7 g Needs care about 52 g Candies, milk chocolate coated raisins Sweets & Sweeteners 68.4 g Needs care about 38 g Candies, mounds candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 58.9 g Lower impact about 19 g Candies, reese's nutrageous candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 52.8 g Needs care about 49 g Candies, symphony milk chocolate bar Sweets & Sweeteners 58 g Lower impact about 42 g Candies, whatchamacallit candy bar Sweets & Sweeteners 63.2 g Needs care about 41 g Candy, Peanut (M&M's) Sweets & Sweeteners 60.9 g Needs care about 43 g Cannoli Sweets & Sweeteners 38 g Use caution about 63 g Cantaloupe Fruits 8.2 g Lower impact about 228 g Cappuccino (milk) Beverages 4 g Lower impact about 250 g Carob Drink (no added sugar) Beverages 3 g Lower impact about 350 g Carob molasses Sweets & Sweeteners 75 g Lower impact about 20 g Carrot Fruits 10 g Lower impact about 60 g Carrot juice Beverages 9.5 g Needs care about 211 g Cashews Sweets & Sweeteners 30 g Lower impact about 30 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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