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Are Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives Safe for Diabetics?
Sweeteners are one of the most common questions in diabetes, and the honest answer is "it depends on the type and the amount". This page pulls together the sweet foods and sweeteners in the encyclopedia and how each one behaves.
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Introduction
Sweeteners are one of the most common questions in diabetes, and the honest answer is "it depends on the type and the amount". This page pulls together the sweet foods and sweeteners in the encyclopedia and how each one behaves.
Matching Foods
243 foods currently match this topic, sorted to help you scan quickly.
Food Category Carbs / 100 g Safety Portion (well-controlled)
Corn chips (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 65 g Lower impact about 30 g Pomegranate molasses Sweets & Sweeteners 65 g Lower impact about 20 g Strawberry jam Sweets & Sweeteners 65 g Lower impact about 20 g Wafer plain Sweets & Sweeteners 65 g Lower impact about 20 g Clif Kit's Organic, Fruit + Seed Bar, Cherry + Pumpkin Seeds (Clif Bar) Sweets & Sweeteners 65.3 g Needs care about 40 g Dunkin' Glazed Donut Flavored Pancake Syrup Breakfast Topping, . (Mrs. Butterworth's) Sweets & Sweeteners 65.5 g Needs care about 37 g Dunkin' Glazed Donut Flavored Pancake Syrup Breakfast Topping, 24 fl. oz. (Mrs. Butterworth's) Sweets & Sweeteners 65.5 g Needs care about 37 g Kind, Breakfast Bar, Raspberry Chia (KIND Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 66 g Needs care about 40 g Clif Bar, Energy Bar, Chocolate Brownie (Clif Bar and Company) Sweets & Sweeteners 66.2 g Needs care about 39 g Loacker wafer (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 68 g Lower impact about 25 g Candies, milk chocolate coated raisins Sweets & Sweeteners 68.4 g Needs care about 38 g Cookies, oatmeal, with raisins Sweets & Sweeteners 69 g Lower impact about 28 g Crunchy Cinnamon Granola Bar (Nature Valley) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.1 g Needs care about 35 g Crunchy Maple Granola Bar (Nature Valley) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.1 g Needs care about 35 g Nature Valley Crunchy Cinnamon Granola Bar (General Mills Sales Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.1 g Needs care about 35 g Nature Valley Crunchy Maple Granola Bar (General Mills Sales Inc.) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.1 g Needs care about 35 g Bread, cornbread, dry mix, enriched (includes corn muffin mix) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.5 g Lower impact about 28 g Bread, cornbread, dry mix, unenriched (includes corn muffin mix) Sweets & Sweeteners 69.5 g Lower impact about 28 g Grape molasses Sweets & Sweeteners 70 g Lower impact about 20 g Schar crackers (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 70 g Lower impact about 25 g Chocolate Candy (M&M's) Sweets & Sweeteners 72 g Lower impact about 26 g M&M's, Chocolate Candy (Mars Chocolate North America LLC) Sweets & Sweeteners 72 g Lower impact about 26 g Rice biscuit (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 72 g Lower impact about 30 g Cerelac (wheat) Sweets & Sweeteners 73 g Needs care about 45 g Date molasses Sweets & Sweeteners 74 g Lower impact about 20 g Carob molasses Sweets & Sweeteners 75 g Lower impact about 20 g Sugar syrup Sweets & Sweeteners 75 g Lower impact about 15 g Roasted corn snack Sweets & Sweeteners 76 g Lower impact about 30 g Artificial Blueberry Muffin Mix, dry Sweets & Sweeteners 77.5 g Needs care about 31 g Rice cakes (gluten-free) Sweets & Sweeteners 80 g Lower impact about 18 g Cake, pudding-type, chocolate, dry mix Sweets & Sweeteners 80.2 g Lower impact about 28 g S'mores Bar, Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate (Betty Crocker) Sweets & Sweeteners 80.7 g Lower impact about 31 g Yemeni Sidr Honey Sweets & Sweeteners 80.8 g Lower impact about 31 g Yemeni Sumor Honey Sweets & Sweeteners 81.5 g Lower impact about 26 g Honey Sweets & Sweeteners 82 g Lower impact about 15 g Supermarket Honey (all types) Sweets & Sweeteners 82 g Lower impact about 21 g Martha White Foods, martha white's chewy fudge brownie mix, dry Sweets & Sweeteners 83.6 g Lower impact about 28 g Brown Sugar Sweets & Sweeteners 98 g Use caution about 6 g White sugar Sweets & Sweeteners 100 g Lower impact about 10 g White Sugar (table sugar) Sweets & Sweeteners 100 g Use caution about 6 g Artificial Sweeteners (all types) Sweets & Sweeteners — Lower impact about 1 g Luqaimat with Date Syrup Sweets & Sweeteners — Lower impact about 89 g Qatayef with Walnuts & Erythritol Sweets & Sweeteners — Lower impact about 108 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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