Nice, so probably good for keto diet, but not the sugar substitute for people who are still eating carbs if it has potential to enhance the effects of other glucose source
The study should have done a control test where they didn't have a drink beforehand, only the rice meal, to see how that affected their blood sugar. A possible explanation seems to me that the test with the monkfruit drink didn't make blood sugar spike higher than it would have done if they had only eaten rice, but drinking a sugary drink actually caused the end blood glucose level to be lower because of the sudden surge of insulin after the drink, so their insulin levels were higher when they started eating the rice. If they'd done a control test with no drink, they would know if that was the case or not. I guess we need to test our own responses to it to find out the truth.
This was my opinion too. 16 teaspoons of sugar is a WHOLE LOT OF SUGAR, which would spike both glucose and insulin! Of course the rice-only induced glucose initial spike would be higher, since the subject was at baseline already for both glucose and insulin. There was no pre-charged insulin in the system from all that ingested sugar. The study took the ball down to the 3-yard line, and stopped. As you pointed out, a third simple test with no sugar OR Monk fruit, and just the rice, would have been an eye-opener.
He said the monkfruit ascerbaited the fried rice consumption...which is loaded w carbs. The test needs to be done w a protein or vegetable choice. I'm prediabetic and monkfruit or erythrotol are my only choices to choose from.
Apparently you work for the sugar industry. Otherwise you would not be making a comparison using rice which alone would blast a person’s glucose level. Shameful.
@@tonik2734 Please, can you explain how you drew this conclusion from Michele's comment? She has the same question I do... why rice, which is loaded with carbs and starch?
Eating fried rice after the drink sweetened with Monk Fruit is where the problem is. Try this test followed my meat, poultry or fish and I'll bet the results differ greatly!
But how would you explain the same spike no happening when they drank the regular sugar? They are fried rice on both days so there shouldn’t be a difference if fried rice was the cause.
I agree with Benz im on ketogenic mediterranean diet, rice creates a large glucose spikes. Take a look at "Ketoconnect" RUclips video where they test sugar substitutes with blood glucose and ketone readers. Then look at rice resistance glucose testing. I myself love rice ,but gave it up.
@@kameo2610 Is there an explanation why the spike wasn’t consistent on both days even tho the only thing that changes were the sweeteners? I’m still gonna buy the monkfruit sweetener so I’m not too worried just curious.
I’d be interested to compare the results to a control group who had zero sugar an hour before eating fried rice....My hypothesis would be the fasted state would mirror the Monk Fruit sweetener state.
The graph is easy to explain: at the 1 hr mark, those who drank the sugar water an hour earlier had some insulin in there bloodstream in response to that drink. When they ate the rice, the insulin already present was able to immediately lower the increase in blood glucose from the rice, resulting in a more gradual peak in blood glucose over the next hour.
@@Superman1685 I think you are exactly correct. In my opinion the study shown in this video actually proves that monk fruit does exactly what it's supposed to do, and only reinforces the idea that it's a very good substitute for sugar.
Perhaps the spike in insulin after the sugar drink helped with the fried rice meal, whereas due to no spike in insulin from the monk fruit, the fried rice caused a spike in blood sugar which the body responded to. I wonder what the result would be like if the test was reversed, with the monk fruit and sugar drink being taken 2 hours after the fried rice meal?
Test makes no sense because sugar water already caused the initial spike, of course the fried rice wouldn’t spike it as much. If you have the rice first and the drink after would be more telling. I’m betting drinking monkfruit sugar after the fried rice wouldn’t affect glucose at all.
Rice is going to cause a spike in blood sugar same as table sugar. If someone had a sugary drink an hour before eating rice, they're already going to have elevated insulin where as if you had a monk fruit sweetened drink you wouldn't have had a recent insulin response. Would have also liked to see a 3rd group for that study that just has a glass of water an hour before the fried rice.
Wouldn’t rice throw off the study? Grains would absolutely effect the outcome of the different processing of sugar vs monk fruit sweetener. Was the study using cane sugar? Wouldn’t people conducting this kind of test know better then to add a carbohydrate into a study that would effect the processing of sugars and sweeteners?? Seems like they didn’t want clear results to me.
My motivation behind making this video is to encourage people to focus on learning to change one's palate to be able to enjoy a dietary lifestyle that is low in added sugar or added sweeteners of any kind. This video, like all my other videos on my channel, are meant to Encourage Curiosity and New Perspectives with the hope that it will help people make better choices in terms of lifestyle and diet for health. I have no interest in taking sides or to participate in any debate about whether Monk Fruit Sweetener is better than other sweeteners or whether Monk Fruit Sweetener is 100% good or 100% bad. I made this video simply to highlight that we should not assume that the use of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners, even natural ones such as Monk Fruit Sweeteners, would definitely translate to better blood glucose control. The study shared in this video highlights this very point, raises this question mark about Non-nutritive sweeteners, including Monk Fruit Sweetener. However, we cannot and should not take any single study, to make sweeping statements to prove or disprove anything but we should take the findings of any study, to add new perspectives. to challenge assumptions, to what Science already shows (or not). For those of you who have enjoyed my video and found it useful and have dropped me an encouraging comment, thank you! For those of you who found my video unhelpful and have left negative feedback in the comments section, I would like to also sincerely thank you too, and I would like to say that even though I may or may not have replied to your comment, I take every comment, feedback seriously, so that I can continue to learn from each video and strive to improve to communicate better in my future videos. I hope this video encourages curiosity and new perspectives. Remain curious. Thanks for dropping by my channel. Blessings Doc
In a certain sense, monk fruit and other sweeteners fool the body to believe there is sugar present and therefore exhaust insulin needed for real carb and sugar digestion, which is ultimately not good. You should taste what you are actually eating to properly prepare enzyme and hormone release.
I'd like to see a study of both sugar & Monk fruit sweetner without the rice. Maybe add eggs or Avocado for those who r using Monk on the Keto diet. Rice isn't keto so that is why there was a spike.
There is a study by Japanese nutritionist that a natural sugar called D-Allulose lowers glucose and insulin spike. The test compares drinks with regular sugar and sugar mixed with this D-Allulose. I am curious what would be your view to this sugar alternative.
Bad test comparison to incorporate food (rice) with monk fruit and table sugar. Why? Because rice being high in carbs will spike glucose levels regardless of monk fruit or sugar. The test should not have been to see how it relates to incorporating other food sources such as high carb rice but rather to test between the two sweeteners on their own without incorporating food such as rice. A proper test to compare monk fruit vs sugar would have been to have tested glucose levels after simply taking monk fruit mixed in a drink one day and table sugar mixed in a drink on another day without adding any food to it. To add rice to this test one hour or two after anything will automatically spike glucose levels regardless of whether you have had monk fruit or sugar beforehand. This can give monk fruit a bad name when monk fruit actually does not raise glucose levels nowhere near if at all compared to sugar but if you're going to have monk fruit and then have a high carb food like rice an hour later then ofcourse it's not going to really make a difference when you compare it to sugar.
I do agree if they had done this test without any foods it could give a better comparison on the effects of sugar and monk fruit sweetener on blood sugar. My guess why they perform this test with fried rice is because it is a common habit for people to have sweetened drinks in a day on top of their meals. This may give a more realistic view than doing a test comparing only sugar and monk fruit sweetener. I’m based in SG same as Dr Chan and what I observe is, it is common for our people to order a plate of rice with mixed vegetables (we call it cai png) plus a drink like chrysanthemum tea or coke. Perhaps the study would be better or more conclusive if they had also done a comparison of the blood glucose when participants had only fried rice without any sugar or sweetener drinks. That might help to determine whether the spike in blood glucose after rice is due to rice itself, by monk fruit sweetener or a combination of both. As there is no baseline study, we can’t say for sure what could be the cause for the second even higher blood glucose spike for the fried rice+monk fruit drink combination. Though not exactly a fair study, I still learn something from this. We can’t be half-hearted if we want to have better blood sugar control. People have the misperception that they are being healthier by taking such sweetener drinks yet indulge in foods with high sugar/carbo content such as rice (white I assume) in this case. And lastly, what I can conclude for sure, the best drink should be plain water instead of having sugar or sweetened drinks in a meal (helps to save money too! :P).
I respectfully disagree. We already know that monk fruit sweetener itself alone will not spike blood sugar levels. We don't need more studies to show this. It's important to know how eating monk fruit sweetener with other things affects our body, as this is what actually happens very often in real life. Not everyone who eats monk fruit sugar always follows it with low carb. The study he brought up is great to show the complex nature of monk fruit sweetener and how we should thus use it given this new knowledge. The study suggests that while monk fruit sweetener itself has no effect on glucose levels, if shortly followed by a carb heavy meal like fried rice, your glucose levels will spike higher than if you had just a regular drink followed with rice. Furthermore, the area under the curve for both scenarios are the same. This means that monk fruit sugar is good to lower blood glucose levels, but ONLY if it is not followed by a heavy carb meal. In other words, if you are diabetic for example, and are trying to prevent spikes in blood glucose levels, you shouldn't eat monk fruit sugar + heavy carb falsely thinking it will be better for your blood glucose levels than sugar + heavy carb.
Did they use organic monk fruit in the study? A lot of sweetners come with other ingredients like Maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is double the glycemic of table sugar.
The main limitation is the absence of insulin level measurements The caveat for those who took the sweetened drink may have been due to high insulin levels, which better controlled subsequent sugar spikes following the rice consumption. Or Taking carbs with Monk Fruit sweetener accentuates the glucose spikes Good Study
I'm non-diabetic, but occasionally monitor my blood glucose with a CGM, as I've been told by my Dr that I'm pre-diabetic (based on my A1C and fasting BG). I did a simple experiment on myself where I consumed a glass of water with a monkfruit sweetener added to it, during a period in which I had been fasting for over 13 hours, and my blood sugars were stable. I saw a clear increase of about 10 mg/dL in my blood glucose, the total climb/fall (back to the stable level) lasting about 50 minutes from the time I consumed it. I don't know why I saw a noticeable increase in the hour after consuming my drink, and the participants in your referenced study did not...perhaps it's because I was fasting? Monk fruit sweetener is non-caloric, but I don't think that means it cannot influence your blood sugar (for better or worse). There definitely seems to be a difference between consuming it and consuming nothing at all.
Great video. What I take away from the study is the sugar drink prepared the healthy men's body to recieve the high carb lunch by already raising the insulin levels before hand better handling the surge of additional blood sugar. The monk fruit on the other hand didn't. So when the men ate the meal their bodies surged with carbs and glucose the insulin had a more delayed response showing higher levels of glucose. But I'm not a doctor just a theory.
Interesting hypothesis, not improbable, but regardless of the mechanism to explain the phenomenon, the study suggests that taking Non-Nutritive Sweeteners such as Monk Fruit Sweeteners may not improve overall Glucose profiles/control. Anyway, thanks for dropping by my channel and for making the effort to leave a comment, thanks! Best regards, Doc
I think this is a correct hypothesis. And I am basing it on my own experience and with doing some similar tests on myself with "pre-loading" the insulin response.
I know why the spike was higher in a monk fruit because insulin wasn’t gradually introduced where as the sugar induced the spike earlier and priming it to be prepared for lunch spike
The question for me is-Did the monkfruit signal the body to release insulin or not? If it didn’t, then that would seem to explain the lower blood sugar after the rice. And it would also explain why the keto people aren’t kicked out of ketosis. And for individuals trying to reverse insulin resistance this could be very important.
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@@TheHabitsDoctor Please , I do not understand is it good or not . I am a new diabetes patient , I noticed that using sugar substitutes called Lakanato which is monk fruit does affect negatively my after meal low carb food and intermittent fasting . I am convinced that monk fruit sweetener is BAD for diabetes patients .
Its obvious that you are not well verse with endocrinology from the way you are drawing conclusions. I'm diabetic diagnosed with a HbA1C of 13.1% and listening to my doctor and dietician does me no good, Diabetes is not about blood glucose level alone but also insulin, hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistances. The sugar water would have flushed the group with insulin and when the fried rice is eaten, there is a cushioning effect. Do understand that both glucose and insulin spike does the body harm and to avoid diabetes complications, it is utmost important to reduce both spikes. Insulin down regulates some metabolic pathways and causes inflammation while high glucose causes glycation to tissues and cells. Insulin resistance/ hyperinsulinemia (state of elevated insulin) can leads to mitochondrial dysfunctions, including cognitive degeneration. Diabetes is not a chronic and progressive disease as was told to me but a metabolic syndrome or disorder. It can be driven into remission. I no longer need insulin injections daily and only using 20% of the dosage of oral meds which was once prescribed to me. My last 2 HbA1C tests was 5.9%. My eye-sight has recovered slightly and my peripheral neuropathy is not getting worse. Monk Fruit sweetener has been a part of my diet plan.
Interesting, because I made a russian tea using fresh orange slices, lemon slices and used monk fruit to sweeten. After drinking a small glass, my body seemed confused as if it was having a negative reaction to the drink as I would act from sugar. I didnt feel great but didnt feel as sick as I do from sugar.
I had 2 sachets of monkfruit sweeter during lunch at 12.30pm today with a meal of rice and fish at the same time. even after 3 hrs and beyond there was no spike visible.
I understand that they both have the same effect on blood sugar, but would that make monk fruit the better option when having sweets in moderation since it is 0 calorie. And is monkfruit extract fully safe to consume?
They don't have the same effect. People who drank monkfruit ate more fried rice, so they had a big response because of that. If the mean have been healthier, the monkfruit would have been great.
Watch Dr. Fung, he explains for type 2 diabetics calories have NOTHING to do w/ it...our bodies have a response when food hits our tongue! It's all a hormone affect...when a artificial sweetner hits our tongue, our body signals...sugar is coming! Our body releases insulin, however, there are the very very few who don't have a sugar spike. Also, most all artifial sweetners are so bad on our guts, & on the cellular level, & inflammation which is behind every disease known to man...just to name a few! I use to drink 3 of the largest diet Pepsi's a day, for 20+ years!...Yikes! Wish I could redo, and change whatever damage I did! Sure every so often...it's not going to make or break the bank! But it's all about the $! Ask most any doctor today, they will say, "Stay away from it all"! They know how it was pushed through w/ no testing...but some testing has been done, & it doesn't look good at all! Just saying.
One other fact I forgot to mention is that the participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, so if they ate more or less, it would affect their glucose levels as well.
The question it leaves me with is what would have happened if they drank a glass of water and then an hour later had the rice and the blood sugar levels were then monitored.
I would like to see this study done without a high carb rice meal. How is the blood sugar affected by the monk fruit if followed up by a low carb, no sugar meal?
Since the Monk Fruit caused no change in blood sugar, I would want to know how it compares to sugar when the meal is a low glycemic one. A bowl of rice is not the best choice for a diabetic anyway. What happens when a diabetic drinks a Monk Fruit sweetened beverage and then eats a bowl of vegetables and perhaps a very small amount of protein? Could this help provide satiety without a blood sugar spike? The bowl of rice in this study really threw the whole thing off for me, but it provides a good look at what happens if someone is using the low glycemic sweetener combined with a high glycemic meal. For a diabetic, I would like to see the average blood glucose levels of people who maintain a low glycemic diet (including using Monk Fruit as a sweetener) over a longer period of time.
So ALL sweeteners are bad for diabetics!!! I gave up all others bc I’m type II ... sucralose was elevating my sugar levels and I switched to monk fruit - for baking and all my sugar needs... my sugar levels decreased!! So please explain to me WHY? I suspect it’s bc of the fried rice ... I WILL NOT eat fried rice unless it’s made with black or brown rice AND I only allow myself 1/3 cup per serving ... I think if you removed the fried rice and substituted a HEALTHY CHOICE for your test instead of a high carb serving you may find contradictory results ... it would be interesting to learn
@@reinas9666 whole wheat, almond or coconut flour… sometimes I’ll mix them just depends on the recipe… if you use the almond/coconut flour you’ll have to incorporate baking powder
@@chrystidao-nguyen9638 it does not lower your glucose bc it’s still a starch, kinda like white bread v. Whole grain, you still account for it but differently… whole grain takes longer for the body to digest so it doesn’t cause a sharp spike in glucose level …
I decided to buy 100% pure monk fruit 4oz for $20 big eyes as a sugar substitute because of my gulbladder condition that causes major pain everytime I eat sugar...and to my suprise I kid you not my pain was so much worse and sever with the monk fruit. All I had was 1tsp added to my tea and when the pain went away I tried it again same pain. These sweeteners are no different than the ones we found to be much worse for us years later like splenda. If you want to be healthy you have to dramatically decrease your sugar intake or cut it out all together.
The chart showing monk fruit had no effect on blood level at first is interesting to me. What if they eat fried rice first, wait 1 hour, then drink monk fruit drink. Doesn’t that mean the monk fruit drink won’t have any effects??
Dr Chan in my life I have been drinking a lot of monk fruit tea from real fresh monk fruit ,it supposed to be dark colour why monk fruit sweetener is become so white colour ,How do you made me trust to buy monk fruit sweetener?
Dr Chan I wonder why monk fruit sweetener is white,is the chemical made it change white ?after the chemical change monk fruit colour in white sweetener is it true to be good in your body.
Fried Rice for lunch? A bowl of rice is a carbohydrate that has at least 5 tablespoons of sugar in it? What if lunch was a meat like a hamburger or a steak? Not a very good study.
@@KC-gh1li my guess is because it's a common habit in SG to take sweetened drinks with rice and mixed vegetables or fried rice (a popular choice actually because it's quick and easy. Even more popular now because of Uncle Roger 😂). It gives a more realistic view because it studies how our blood glucose may change with the type of sweetened drinks we take together with meals. The study may not be perfect but not completely useless. We can learn something out of it, we shouldn't assume we are safe/healthier just because we substitute white sugar with these sweeteners and yet did not change our habit of eating high sugar or carbo foods. 😊
When the participants had the sugar drink it cased an insulin spike so when they ate the rice the insulin was already working so the rice did not cause as large of a blood glucose spike as when they had the monk fruit drink. The monk fruit dink did not case an insulin spike so when the participants ate the rice there would be a larger blood glucose spike from the rice until the insulin brought the glucose levels down. I don't understand why you would use this study as an example. Please explain.
so u r saying they should have had a 3rd trial where see what happens if u just eat rice! Good point! However the spike on monk fruit was HIGHER than sugar. NOT good.
I am making a desert for my RUclips channel. Grapefruit in almibar. Instead of using regular sugar I’ll use monk fruit sweetener. Thanks for all the explanations on this video regarding the monk fruit. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ok think about these tests logically…. The sugar drink spiked the insulin as expected, but there was still a lot of insulin in the blood when the rice was eaten so of course there was less of a spike for the rice…. The monk fruit didn’t spike any insulin at all, so the rice caused a bigger spike in insulin because it needed more to correct the rice spike. The monk fruit had no effect on the insulin spike caused by the rice… Keep using your monk fruit.
He said that he would never say that something is good or bad, he implies that he only encourages to be curious, investigate more and make you own conclusions. I guess you need to investigate listening to other investigators also, maybe somebody else gives you a clearer answer.
@@chiwalito What kind of stupid statement is that. What is the point of this video? to make this "BS" fence sitting "do your own research" bullshit??????
How much monk fruit sweetener was in the monk fruit drink? Isn’t monk fruit extract 250 to 300 times ‘sweeter’ than sugar? I wonder if they used the same amount of monk fruit sweetener as they did sugar.
this is so why...the initial spike of glucose from the sugar tempered the second spike. without the initial spike, the spike from the rice alone was higher. this is commonplace and not unusual at all.
I think that if you use it in small increments/amounts then it's definitely better than using real sugar, or honey, or some other sugar. But I think some people might use too many tablespoons and I don't think that that is good or healthy.
I think you missed the point doc, we drink monkfruit sugar to avoid glucose spike DURING the first hour and from your graph it does exactly that. What happens after that first hour is beyond the power of monk fruit sweetener to control.
Should make a study using all samples with diabetic patients and one more study using sample of persons with high blood sugar level but not yet diagnosed diabetic. These three studies will explain better conclusion.
@@toolate6971 Rice has been the staple of billions over millenia. It's the processed crap, chemicals (insecticides, fungicides, gmo, etc.), unhealthy cooking, fast foods and dietary habits that have messed up people's health. On top of all this crap sits the FDA, Monsanto and its likes, the various lobbies, fast food chains, processed food industry, etc. which are the root causes of the modern day diseases. Remember that diabetes is a very recent phenomenon. The west which is predominantly meat eating leads the charts.
I have questions 1. These were healthy men, right? Meaning they weren't diabetic or pre-diabetic? 2. Rice is high in starch and carbs. Why use this for the test? 3. Is it possible the rice interacted with the Monk Fruit differently than it did the sugar? 4. Why drink the drink 1 hour before the test? Why not with the test?
It seems plausible that the bodys processing of the sugar beverage produced enough insulin to also buffer the carbs from the rice. Monk fruit did what it was suppose to do. No insulin response to sweetened beverage but no buffer for the rice carbs slamming into the blood stream
There was no mention in the video at least (unless I missed it) of whether this is 100% monk fruit. It is most often highly processed and blended with alcohol sugar, like erythritol. I assume the study used 100%. I was confused however by the use of a Rice lunch? That to me would be problematic with the test. Why not use something more neutral to blood sugar control and easily measured for volume/qty? I don't think this study shows anything significant, other than monk fruit not spiking blood sugar when consumed on an empty stomach before food. That in itself is good. I use it for coffee since that is the only thing I must have sweetened.
I'd be interested in seeing the glucose level for each absent the meal. My hunch the sugar group glucose will go further down due to insulin residuals still doing their job. Those would also carry over into the meal. The trick with glucose levels, you have to cut out the sugar or lower it with everything you put in your mouth.
I used organic monk fruit sweetener from Wisdom Natural brands and it raised my blood sugar! I tested glucose at 8 am & was 101 Mg/Dl; I tested again after a cup of coffee & 4 packets of Monk fruit after 3 hrs and the result was 124 mg/Dl. Tested Stevia & Splenda before but the glucose level was the same no change.
Glad you found it useful. Whenever I conduct workshops and training programmes on the impact of our eating habits in combating chronic diseases, this question on sweeteners, including natural sweeteners often come up during the Q&A, so I decided to make a video about it.
Okay, so they need to test this with something like a sweet potato to see if the reaction is the same with a different type of carb and then try with a low carb food like a spinach avocado salad and see what the result is for that. So for now I guess don't eat mung fruit with a high carb food and if you do, test your blood sugar levels before and after.
Agreed. I felt white rice especially fried white rice will raise the sugar level of most people, so not a good study since you dont know if the spike of glucose was due to the rice or monk fruit?
Dr Chan. 🙏🏾 for sharing the research. it helps me out on my thought process. I know nutritional science is evolving. I feel today we know so little, but definitely more than my parents generation. I remember my parents thinking direct starch and sugar increase blood sugar, when we know it affects insulin production today which affects blood sugar! personally I feel any kind of sweetener is bad because of its addictive quality. I have reduced enormously The amount of sugar n starch I eat. It Has to be special to be worthy of poisoning my body. Sometimes I treat myself to a very expensive slice of bread or a pastry as a reward. No more junky on sale grocery bakeries! Me in the past could guzzle down copious amounts of soda without a thought. Today I find it so cloyingly sweet that I can only handle a few sips. I like where I am now because I don’t give into my addiction for sugar or starch.
Oh my... this is a very flawed study because it is measuring blood sugar NOT INSULIN... there was no elevated insulin response to monk fruit because it did not raise blood sugar... the table sugar raised blood sugar which the body responded to by raising insulin, which then lowered blood sugar... when the fried rice (pure carbohydrate) was consumed... there was less of a spike in blood sugar after first consuming table sugar because insulin was already raised... this is why blood sugar spiked more after eating rice after consuming monk-fruit. Because insulin was LOWER.. Please note that White RICE is actually higher on the glycemic index than table sugar. This "doctor" should be ashamed of himself for presenting this BS study engineered by the American sugar lobby...
If there was a control group that just ate fried rice after 1 hour than you would have more information on if it was the monkfruit or the lack of sugar with rice might spike your blood sugar level.
So...if the first hour before the rice, the blood sugar didn't move - I think it's a good way to control appetite? And in a real situation would mean that person would not eat as much of the friend rice? Is that a wrong assumption?
I think there are flaws in associating the question you asked with the studies you provided. First, the study was looking into people without diabetes. Second, the primary reason for the spike in glucose levels is because of the sugared drink and the rice, not monk fruit. So if I were to use monk fruit, I wouldn't have issues with sugar spikes. So I actually don't understand the point of your video.
Not just sugar laced food but avoid carbs or lessen your carb intake. Sugar is a form of carbs. Fruits are also bad. Some fruits like strawberry, blueberry, cranberry are fine for diabetic but not the dried types as they are usually added with sugar. Eat these fruits moderately. Also not all sweetner are the same so far I know Stevia, monk fruit, erythritol, xylitol are ok but some of these sweetner if consumed too much may give you some indigestion problem because our body cannot digest erythritol, xylitol. Moderate amount is fine. Learn to change your taste bud slowly to get used to blander food with less sugar, salt and if possible learn to drink black coffee, tea without sugar or milk. If you absolutely need to have some milk can try almond milk in your coffee/tea. Moderate is key. Best is to buy a blood sugar test kit and test your sugar yourself and see what kind of food sent your blood sugar sky high 1 hour after meal. Compare your reading before and 1 hour and 2 hour after meal. Some food may sent your sugar level higher only after 2 hours. Learn to read the lable whenever you buy any package/canned food especially the carbs content. Fiber is also carbs but fiber will not spike your sugar so look at the total carbs and sublevel that tells you how much fiber (if there's breakdown) then use total carb - fiber to get the net carbs that is the value you need to consider as that's what spike insulin level.
Hey Kayla, coconut sugar though lower in GI than table sugar (sucrose) will still raise blood glucose, so wherever possible, instead of looking for 'better' sweeteners, the better way is always to strive to change one eating habits and consequently one's palate whereby one can still enjoy foods and beverages without any added sweeteners of any kind. Cheers.
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When i did keto diet, i used monk fruit sweetener. I was still in ketosis and continued loosing weight
And that's what matters. I also do the same thing. I was appalled that rice was used in the test. Keto rules.
okay but the potential spiking in blood glucose is still problematic for diabetics
@@jelorer it could have been the rice that spiked it, rice is carbs
Love Monkfruit sweetners, Amata monkfruit enchancers
Nice, so probably good for keto diet, but not the sugar substitute for people who are still eating carbs if it has potential to enhance the effects of other glucose source
The study should have done a control test where they didn't have a drink beforehand, only the rice meal, to see how that affected their blood sugar. A possible explanation seems to me that the test with the monkfruit drink didn't make blood sugar spike higher than it would have done if they had only eaten rice, but drinking a sugary drink actually caused the end blood glucose level to be lower because of the sudden surge of insulin after the drink, so their insulin levels were higher when they started eating the rice. If they'd done a control test with no drink, they would know if that was the case or not. I guess we need to test our own responses to it to find out the truth.
This was my first thought exactly! Not enough information because the study was not complete!
This was my opinion too. 16 teaspoons of sugar is a WHOLE LOT OF SUGAR, which would spike both glucose and insulin! Of course the rice-only induced glucose initial spike would be higher, since the subject was at baseline already for both glucose and insulin. There was no pre-charged insulin in the system from all that ingested sugar.
The study took the ball down to the 3-yard line, and stopped.
As you pointed out, a third simple test with no sugar OR Monk fruit, and just the rice, would have been an eye-opener.
I completely agree, I think that they should only have drinks and them check in 30 min without having the rice. Thank you.
I came to the same conclusion
Also, these were healthy men, NOT men with diabetes ! How can you say if t is good for diabetes when you didn't test people with diabetes ?
He said the monkfruit ascerbaited the fried rice consumption...which is loaded w carbs. The test needs to be done w a protein or vegetable choice. I'm prediabetic and monkfruit or erythrotol are my only choices to choose from.
Apparently you work for the sugar industry. Otherwise you would not be making a comparison using rice which alone would blast a person’s glucose level. Shameful.
Ya im wondering about the rice as well.
@@tonik2734 Please, can you explain how you drew this conclusion from Michele's comment? She has the same question I do... why rice, which is loaded with carbs and starch?
I agree! Test with a low carb meal and see what happens then.
I read the study. The reason for the difference is that people who drank the monkfruit ate more fried rice. That's literally it.
Eating fried rice after the drink sweetened with Monk Fruit is where the problem is. Try this test followed my meat, poultry or fish and I'll bet the results differ greatly!
Yes but the spike on the Monkruit sweetener test was caused by the fried rice which is extremely high in carbohydrates, no?
But how would you explain the same spike no happening when they drank the regular sugar? They are fried rice on both days so there shouldn’t be a difference if fried rice was the cause.
I agree with Benz im on ketogenic mediterranean diet, rice creates a large glucose spikes. Take a look at "Ketoconnect" RUclips video where they test sugar substitutes with blood glucose and ketone readers. Then look at rice resistance glucose testing. I myself love rice ,but gave it up.
@@kameo2610 Is there an explanation why the spike wasn’t consistent on both days even tho the only thing that changes were the sweeteners? I’m still gonna buy the monkfruit sweetener so I’m not too worried just curious.
I’d be interested to compare the results to a control group who had zero sugar an hour before eating fried rice....My hypothesis would be the fasted state would mirror the Monk Fruit sweetener state.
Of coz fried rice is starch/carbs so it will spike your insulin level.
The graph is easy to explain: at the 1 hr mark, those who drank the sugar water an hour earlier had some insulin in there bloodstream in response to that drink. When they ate the rice, the insulin already present was able to immediately lower the increase in blood glucose from the rice, resulting in a more gradual peak in blood glucose over the next hour.
I thought the same thing.
@@Superman1685 I think you are exactly correct. In my opinion the study shown in this video actually proves that monk fruit does exactly what it's supposed to do, and only reinforces the idea that it's a very good substitute for sugar.
Perhaps the spike in insulin after the sugar drink helped with the fried rice meal, whereas due to no spike in insulin from the monk fruit, the fried rice caused a spike in blood sugar which the body responded to. I wonder what the result would be like if the test was reversed, with the monk fruit and sugar drink being taken 2 hours after the fried rice meal?
No. It's in the study. The people who.had monkfruit ate more fried rice at lunch. That's it.
@@toomanymarys7355 the point is that the fried rice spiked the blood sugar duuuhhh..not the monk fruit
Exactly
EXACTLY! Useless study if you ask me (when done this way). Proves nothing but the fact that rice causes a spike in bloodsugar lol
Test makes no sense because sugar water already caused the initial spike, of course the fried rice wouldn’t spike it as much. If you have the rice first and the drink after would be more telling. I’m betting drinking monkfruit sugar after the fried rice wouldn’t affect glucose at all.
Hello from Pennsauken, New Jersey Good video. Thanks.
You are welcome. Thank you too. Blessings, Dr Chan
Thank you for this honest review
Rice is going to cause a spike in blood sugar same as table sugar. If someone had a sugary drink an hour before eating rice, they're already going to have elevated insulin where as if you had a monk fruit sweetened drink you wouldn't have had a recent insulin response.
Would have also liked to see a 3rd group for that study that just has a glass of water an hour before the fried rice.
Wouldn’t rice throw off the study? Grains would absolutely effect the outcome of the different processing of sugar vs monk fruit sweetener. Was the study using cane sugar? Wouldn’t people conducting this kind of test know better then to add a carbohydrate into a study that would effect the processing of sugars and sweeteners?? Seems like they didn’t want clear results to me.
My motivation behind making this video is to encourage people to focus on learning to change one's palate to be able to enjoy a dietary lifestyle that is low in added sugar or added sweeteners of any kind. This video, like all my other videos on my channel, are meant to Encourage Curiosity and New Perspectives with the hope that it will help people make better choices in terms of lifestyle and diet for health. I have no interest in taking sides or to participate in any debate about whether Monk Fruit Sweetener is better than other sweeteners or whether Monk Fruit Sweetener is 100% good or 100% bad.
I made this video simply to highlight that we should not assume that the use of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners, even natural ones such as Monk Fruit Sweeteners, would definitely translate to better blood glucose control.
The study shared in this video highlights this very point, raises this question mark about Non-nutritive sweeteners, including Monk Fruit Sweetener. However, we cannot and should not take any single study, to make sweeping statements to prove or disprove anything but we should take the findings of any study, to add new perspectives. to challenge assumptions, to what Science already shows (or not).
For those of you who have enjoyed my video and found it useful and have dropped me an encouraging comment, thank you!
For those of you who found my video unhelpful and have left negative feedback in the comments section, I would like to also sincerely thank you too, and I would like to say that even though I may or may not have replied to your comment, I take every comment, feedback seriously, so that I can continue to learn from each video and strive to improve to communicate better in my future videos.
I hope this video encourages curiosity and new perspectives.
Remain curious.
Thanks for dropping by my channel.
Blessings
Doc
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In a certain sense, monk fruit and other sweeteners fool the body to believe there is sugar present and therefore exhaust insulin needed for real carb and sugar digestion, which is ultimately not good. You should taste what you are actually eating to properly prepare enzyme and hormone release.
I'd like to see a study of both sugar & Monk fruit sweetner without the rice. Maybe add eggs or Avocado for those who r using Monk on the Keto diet. Rice isn't keto so that is why there was a spike.
There is a study by Japanese nutritionist that a natural sugar called D-Allulose lowers glucose and insulin spike. The test compares drinks with regular sugar and sugar mixed with this D-Allulose. I am curious what would be your view to this sugar alternative.
can you share link from which you bought them from ? thank you for video!
Bad test comparison to incorporate food (rice) with monk fruit and table sugar.
Why? Because rice being high in carbs will spike glucose levels regardless of monk fruit or sugar.
The test should not have been to see how it relates to incorporating other food sources such as high carb rice but rather to test between the two sweeteners on their own without incorporating food such as rice.
A proper test to compare monk fruit vs sugar would have been to have tested glucose levels after simply taking monk fruit mixed in a drink one day and table sugar mixed in a drink on another day without adding any food to it.
To add rice to this test one hour or two after anything will automatically spike glucose levels regardless of whether you have had monk fruit or sugar beforehand.
This can give monk fruit a bad name when monk fruit actually does not raise glucose levels nowhere near if at all compared to sugar but if you're going to have monk fruit and then have a high carb food like rice an hour later then ofcourse it's not going to really make a difference when you compare it to sugar.
Agreed. The study is flawed.
I do agree if they had done this test without any foods it could give a better comparison on the effects of sugar and monk fruit sweetener on blood sugar. My guess why they perform this test with fried rice is because it is a common habit for people to have sweetened drinks in a day on top of their meals. This may give a more realistic view than doing a test comparing only sugar and monk fruit sweetener. I’m based in SG same as Dr Chan and what I observe is, it is common for our people to order a plate of rice with mixed vegetables (we call it cai png) plus a drink like chrysanthemum tea or coke.
Perhaps the study would be better or more conclusive if they had also done a comparison of the blood glucose when participants had only fried rice without any sugar or sweetener drinks. That might help to determine whether the spike in blood glucose after rice is due to rice itself, by monk fruit sweetener or a combination of both. As there is no baseline study, we can’t say for sure what could be the cause for the second even higher blood glucose spike for the fried rice+monk fruit drink combination. Though not exactly a fair study, I still learn something from this. We can’t be half-hearted if we want to have better blood sugar control. People have the misperception that they are being healthier by taking such sweetener drinks yet indulge in foods with high sugar/carbo content such as rice (white I assume) in this case.
And lastly, what I can conclude for sure, the best drink should be plain water instead of having sugar or sweetened drinks in a meal (helps to save money too! :P).
I respectfully disagree. We already know that monk fruit sweetener itself alone will not spike blood sugar levels. We don't need more studies to show this. It's important to know how eating monk fruit sweetener with other things affects our body, as this is what actually happens very often in real life. Not everyone who eats monk fruit sugar always follows it with low carb.
The study he brought up is great to show the complex nature of monk fruit sweetener and how we should thus use it given this new knowledge. The study suggests that while monk fruit sweetener itself has no effect on glucose levels, if shortly followed by a carb heavy meal like fried rice, your glucose levels will spike higher than if you had just a regular drink followed with rice. Furthermore, the area under the curve for both scenarios are the same.
This means that monk fruit sugar is good to lower blood glucose levels, but ONLY if it is not followed by a heavy carb meal. In other words, if you are diabetic for example, and are trying to prevent spikes in blood glucose levels, you shouldn't eat monk fruit sugar + heavy carb falsely thinking it will be better for your blood glucose levels than sugar + heavy carb.
Did they use organic monk fruit in the study? A lot of sweetners come with other ingredients like Maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is double the glycemic of table sugar.
The main limitation is the absence of insulin level measurements
The caveat for those who took the sweetened drink may have been due to high insulin levels, which better controlled subsequent sugar spikes following the rice consumption.
Or
Taking carbs with Monk Fruit sweetener accentuates the glucose spikes
Good Study
I'm non-diabetic, but occasionally monitor my blood glucose with a CGM, as I've been told by my Dr that I'm pre-diabetic (based on my A1C and fasting BG). I did a simple experiment on myself where I consumed a glass of water with a monkfruit sweetener added to it, during a period in which I had been fasting for over 13 hours, and my blood sugars were stable. I saw a clear increase of about 10 mg/dL in my blood glucose, the total climb/fall (back to the stable level) lasting about 50 minutes from the time I consumed it. I don't know why I saw a noticeable increase in the hour after consuming my drink, and the participants in your referenced study did not...perhaps it's because I was fasting? Monk fruit sweetener is non-caloric, but I don't think that means it cannot influence your blood sugar (for better or worse). There definitely seems to be a difference between consuming it and consuming nothing at all.
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Great video. What I take away from the study is the sugar drink prepared the healthy men's body to recieve the high carb lunch by already raising the insulin levels before hand better handling the surge of additional blood sugar. The monk fruit on the other hand didn't. So when the men ate the meal their bodies surged with carbs and glucose the insulin had a more delayed response showing higher levels of glucose. But I'm not a doctor just a theory.
Interesting hypothesis, not improbable, but regardless of the mechanism to explain the phenomenon, the study suggests that taking Non-Nutritive Sweeteners such as Monk Fruit Sweeteners may not improve overall Glucose profiles/control. Anyway, thanks for dropping by my channel and for making the effort to leave a comment, thanks! Best regards, Doc
I think this is a correct hypothesis. And I am basing it on my own experience and with doing some similar tests on myself with "pre-loading" the insulin response.
Thank you for the information Dr. Chan shared.
I know why the spike was higher in a monk fruit because insulin wasn’t gradually introduced where as the sugar induced the spike earlier and priming it to be prepared for lunch spike
The question for me is-Did the monkfruit signal the body to release insulin or not? If it didn’t, then that would seem to explain the lower blood sugar after the rice. And it would also explain why the keto people aren’t kicked out of ketosis. And for individuals trying to reverse insulin resistance this could be very important.
Thank you so much for this video. I loved the way you presented the facts in a crisp and easy to understand manner
Thanks so much for your msg. There were people who commented that I was long-winded and difficult to understand :-(, but I take them as feedback for me to drive me to continue to work hard to improve and make my msg easier to understand. So your msg is much appreciated. Thanks!
@@TheHabitsDoctor Please , I do not understand
is it good or not .
I am a new diabetes patient , I noticed that using sugar substitutes called Lakanato which is monk fruit does affect negatively my after meal low carb food and intermittent fasting .
I am convinced that monk fruit sweetener is BAD for diabetes patients .
Its obvious that you are not well verse with endocrinology from the way you are drawing conclusions. I'm diabetic diagnosed with a HbA1C of 13.1% and listening to my doctor and dietician does me no good, Diabetes is not about blood glucose level alone but also insulin, hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistances. The sugar water would have flushed the group with insulin and when the fried rice is eaten, there is a cushioning effect. Do understand that both glucose and insulin spike does the body harm and to avoid diabetes complications, it is utmost important to reduce both spikes.
Insulin down regulates some metabolic pathways and causes inflammation while high glucose causes glycation to tissues and cells. Insulin resistance/ hyperinsulinemia (state of elevated insulin) can leads to mitochondrial dysfunctions, including cognitive degeneration.
Diabetes is not a chronic and progressive disease as was told to me but a metabolic syndrome or disorder. It can be driven into remission. I no longer need insulin injections daily and only using 20% of the dosage of oral meds which was once prescribed to me. My last 2 HbA1C tests was 5.9%. My eye-sight has recovered slightly and my peripheral neuropathy is not getting worse. Monk Fruit sweetener has been a part of my diet plan.
Interesting, because I made a russian tea using fresh orange slices, lemon slices and used monk fruit to sweeten. After drinking a small glass, my body seemed confused as if it was having a negative reaction to the drink as I would act from sugar. I didnt feel great but didnt feel as sick as I do from sugar.
For some time, my biggest concern is about Maltodextrin. Can you tell me if is good or not for a pre-diabetes person?
I had 2 sachets of monkfruit sweeter during lunch at 12.30pm today with a meal of rice and fish at the same time. even after 3 hrs and beyond there was no spike visible.
Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information 🙏
My pleasure. Thanks for dropping by my channel and your encouraging comment. Blessings, Doc
I understand that they both have the same effect on blood sugar, but would that make monk fruit the better option when having sweets in moderation since it is 0 calorie. And is monkfruit extract fully safe to consume?
Did you check the chart, the Monk Fruit had no blood glucose spike.
They don't have the same effect. People who drank monkfruit ate more fried rice, so they had a big response because of that. If the mean have been healthier, the monkfruit would have been great.
Watch Dr. Fung, he explains for type 2 diabetics calories have NOTHING to do w/ it...our bodies have a response when food hits our tongue! It's all a hormone affect...when a artificial sweetner hits our tongue, our body signals...sugar is coming! Our body releases insulin, however, there are the very very few who don't have a sugar spike. Also, most all artifial sweetners are so bad on our guts, & on the cellular level, & inflammation which is behind every disease known to man...just to name a few! I use to drink 3 of the largest diet Pepsi's a day, for 20+ years!...Yikes! Wish I could redo, and change whatever damage I did!
Sure every so often...it's not going to make or break the bank! But it's all about the $! Ask most any doctor today, they will say, "Stay away from it all"! They know how it was pushed through w/ no testing...but some testing has been done, & it doesn't look good at all! Just saying.
Thank You Dr Chan for tackling this topic. Been hearing a lot about the monk fruit & was wondering about it. Thank u for ur insight!
So happy to have found this, do you have any information on allulose? I can't seem to find any studies. Thank you.
One other fact I forgot to mention is that the participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, so if they ate more or less, it would affect their glucose levels as well.
Where do I get it.???
The question it leaves me with is what would have happened if they drank a glass of water and then an hour later had the rice and the blood sugar levels were then monitored.
Excuse me Doctor, I'm from Cambodia and I want to know if gluco pro can treat diabetes in people.
Useful video ❤
I would like to see this study done without a high carb rice meal. How is the blood sugar affected by the monk fruit if followed up by a low carb, no sugar meal?
Since the Monk Fruit caused no change in blood sugar, I would want to know how it compares to sugar when the meal is a low glycemic one. A bowl of rice is not the best choice for a diabetic anyway. What happens when a diabetic drinks a Monk Fruit sweetened beverage and then eats a bowl of vegetables and perhaps a very small amount of protein? Could this help provide satiety without a blood sugar spike? The bowl of rice in this study really threw the whole thing off for me, but it provides a good look at what happens if someone is using the low glycemic sweetener combined with a high glycemic meal. For a diabetic, I would like to see the average blood glucose levels of people who maintain a low glycemic diet (including using Monk Fruit as a sweetener) over a longer period of time.
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So ALL sweeteners are bad for diabetics!!! I gave up all others bc I’m type II ... sucralose was elevating my sugar levels and I switched to monk fruit - for baking and all my sugar needs... my sugar levels decreased!! So please explain to me WHY? I suspect it’s bc of the fried rice ... I WILL NOT eat fried rice unless it’s made with black or brown rice AND I only allow myself 1/3 cup per serving ...
I think if you removed the fried rice and substituted a HEALTHY CHOICE for your test instead of a high carb serving you may find contradictory results ... it would be interesting to learn
I agree with black and brown rice. You said baking, what flour do you use? Help please
@@reinas9666 whole wheat, almond or coconut flour… sometimes I’ll mix them just depends on the recipe… if you use the almond/coconut flour you’ll have to incorporate baking powder
@@jerseyrose5678 thanks, what kind of monk fruit do you use?
@@jerseyrose5678 you mentioned using black rice in your fried rice. Does this help lower your glucose versus using white rice?
@@chrystidao-nguyen9638 it does not lower your glucose bc it’s still a starch, kinda like white bread v. Whole grain, you still account for it but differently… whole grain takes longer for the body to digest so it doesn’t cause a sharp spike in glucose level …
I decided to buy 100% pure monk fruit 4oz for $20 big eyes as a sugar substitute because of my gulbladder condition that causes major pain everytime I eat sugar...and to my suprise I kid you not my pain was so much worse and sever with the monk fruit. All I had was 1tsp added to my tea and when the pain went away I tried it again same pain. These sweeteners are no different than the ones we found to be much worse for us years later like splenda. If you want to be healthy you have to dramatically decrease your sugar intake or cut it out all together.
Thank you Doctor, great job!
You are welcome. Thank you too. Blessings, Dr Chan
What spiked the blood sugar is the rice?
The chart showing monk fruit had no effect on blood level at first is interesting to me. What if they eat fried rice first, wait 1 hour, then drink monk fruit drink. Doesn’t that mean the monk fruit drink won’t have any effects??
Read the study. The effect is because the people who had the surgery free drink ate more rice.
@@toomanymarys7355 thank you for explaining makes sense now
But rice also has sugar . That would affect the sugar levels ?
I would be interested in hearing about a study that only compares Monk fruit and sugar drinks respectively with no other food consumption.....
Dr Chan in my life I have been drinking a lot of monk fruit tea from real fresh monk fruit ,it supposed to be dark colour why monk fruit sweetener is become so white colour ,How do you made me trust to buy monk fruit sweetener?
Dr Chan I wonder why monk fruit sweetener is white,is the chemical made it change white ?after the chemical change monk fruit colour in white sweetener is it true to be good in your body.
It would be nice to see a control group of just water. So we could see what happened with the glucose level after the fried rice lunch.
I really appreciate you taking the time to educate us. This is very helpful for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Fried Rice for lunch? A bowl of rice is a carbohydrate that has at least 5 tablespoons of sugar in it? What if lunch was a meat like a hamburger or a steak? Not a very good study.
I believe the rice raised the sugar if u notice the first hour of monk fruit had zero raised .unless the monk fruit raise over time
@@blacksmithbeatz This study doesn't make sense and y would they choose fried rice for lunch
@@KC-gh1li Yeah I agree the rice baffles me
@@KC-gh1li my guess is because it's a common habit in SG to take sweetened drinks with rice and mixed vegetables or fried rice (a popular choice actually because it's quick and easy. Even more popular now because of Uncle Roger 😂). It gives a more realistic view because it studies how our blood glucose may change with the type of sweetened drinks we take together with meals. The study may not be perfect but not completely useless. We can learn something out of it, we shouldn't assume we are safe/healthier just because we substitute white sugar with these sweeteners and yet did not change our habit of eating high sugar or carbo foods. 😊
@@blacksmithbeatz You're right. People who had the zero calorie drink ate more rice for lunch. That's all.
When the participants had the sugar drink it cased an insulin spike so when they ate the rice the insulin was already working so the rice did not cause as large of a blood glucose spike as when they had the monk fruit drink. The monk fruit dink did not case an insulin spike so when the participants ate the rice there would be a larger blood glucose spike from the rice until the insulin brought the glucose levels down. I don't understand why you would use this study as an example. Please explain.
so u r saying they should have had a 3rd trial where see what happens if u just eat rice! Good point!
However the spike on monk fruit was HIGHER than sugar. NOT good.
Dr I have acidity problem does monkfruit increases stomach acidity
Thank you for this information. you ànswered my concerns about ɓs spikes no more for me.
Glad it was helpful!
I am making a desert for my RUclips channel. Grapefruit in almibar. Instead of using regular sugar I’ll use monk fruit sweetener. Thanks for all the explanations on this video regarding the monk fruit. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing
Ok think about these tests logically…. The sugar drink spiked the insulin as expected, but there was still a lot of insulin in the blood when the rice was eaten so of course there was less of a spike for the rice…. The monk fruit didn’t spike any insulin at all, so the rice caused a bigger spike in insulin because it needed more to correct the rice spike. The monk fruit had no effect on the insulin spike caused by the rice… Keep using your monk fruit.
They should have tested with plain water as well to compare.
Is there a similar study for stevia as well? is stevia good for diabetics?
He said that he would never say that something is good or bad, he implies that he only encourages to be curious, investigate more and make you own conclusions. I guess you need to investigate listening to other investigators also, maybe somebody else gives you a clearer answer.
@@chiwalito What kind of stupid statement is that. What is the point of this video? to make this "BS" fence sitting "do your own research" bullshit??????
I have wasted my time if that was the point. he just creates click bait titles but doesn't have the necessary data... time waster.
How much monk fruit sweetener was in the monk fruit drink? Isn’t monk fruit extract 250 to 300 times ‘sweeter’ than sugar?
I wonder if they used the same amount of monk fruit sweetener as they did sugar.
What about monk fruit sweetner with Erythritol?
Hi, can take drink on anytime? Morning / everning / night can?
this is so why...the initial spike of glucose from the sugar tempered the second spike. without the initial spike, the spike from the rice alone was higher. this is commonplace and not unusual at all.
What about the i pact of fructose on the liver?
Thanks for the video.
The experiment should be conducted on diabetic patients rather then normal people. For normal people your blood sugar level would be well regulated.
Maybe the test should focus on insulin production. What is the Monk fruit sugar : Glucose Load?
Why did they pick fried rice as the lunch? The rice would spike their sugars anyways and did they give the exact amounts of the fried rice each time.
I think that if you use it in small increments/amounts then it's definitely better than using real sugar, or honey, or some other sugar. But I think some people might use too many tablespoons and I don't think that that is good or healthy.
Why did they give the fried rice in the study? Why not just test the Monkfruit vs. sugar ….
7:15 is where he answers the question
I think you missed the point doc, we drink monkfruit sugar to avoid glucose spike DURING the first hour and from your graph it does exactly that. What happens after that first hour is beyond the power of monk fruit sweetener to control.
Should make a study using all samples with diabetic patients and one more study using sample of persons with high blood sugar level but not yet diagnosed diabetic. These three studies will explain better conclusion.
This study is an eye-opener. Thank you very much for sharing this study 🙏
Since when do DIABETICS eat Fried Rice?
@@toolate6971 Rice has been the staple of billions over millenia. It's the processed crap, chemicals (insecticides, fungicides, gmo, etc.), unhealthy cooking, fast foods and dietary habits that have messed up people's health. On top of all this crap sits the FDA, Monsanto and its likes, the various lobbies, fast food chains, processed food industry, etc. which are the root causes of the modern day diseases.
Remember that diabetes is a very recent phenomenon. The west which is predominantly meat eating leads the charts.
hi, can person with kidney disease stage 3 take this sweetener too?
I have questions
1. These were healthy men, right? Meaning they weren't diabetic or pre-diabetic?
2. Rice is high in starch and carbs. Why use this for the test?
3. Is it possible the rice interacted with the Monk Fruit differently than it did the sugar?
4. Why drink the drink 1 hour before the test? Why not with the test?
I think this demonstrated that monkfruit affected the insulin response after eating the rice.
It seems plausible that the bodys processing of the sugar beverage produced enough insulin to also buffer the carbs from the rice.
Monk fruit did what it was suppose to do. No insulin response to sweetened beverage but no buffer for the rice carbs slamming into the blood stream
I would have liked to see a control group who was given plain water to drink.
There was no mention in the video at least (unless I missed it) of whether this is 100% monk fruit. It is most often highly processed and blended with alcohol sugar, like erythritol. I assume the study used 100%. I was confused however by the use of a Rice lunch? That to me would be problematic with the test. Why not use something more neutral to blood sugar control and easily measured for volume/qty? I don't think this study shows anything significant, other than monk fruit not spiking blood sugar when consumed on an empty stomach before food. That in itself is good. I use it for coffee since that is the only thing I must have sweetened.
I'd be interested in seeing the glucose level for each absent the meal. My hunch the sugar group glucose will go further down due to insulin residuals still doing their job. Those would also carry over into the meal. The trick with glucose levels, you have to cut out the sugar or lower it with everything you put in your mouth.
I used organic monk fruit sweetener from Wisdom Natural brands and it raised my blood sugar!
I tested glucose at 8 am & was 101 Mg/Dl; I tested again after a cup of coffee & 4 packets of Monk fruit after 3 hrs and the result was 124 mg/Dl. Tested Stevia & Splenda before but the glucose level was the same no change.
Wouldn’t the rice raise blood glucose?
What about Stevia?
Yes Mock Fruit is better
Wow this result is really eye opening. Thanks for sharing
Glad you found it useful. Whenever I conduct workshops and training programmes on the impact of our eating habits in combating chronic diseases, this question on sweeteners, including natural sweeteners often come up during the Q&A, so I decided to make a video about it.
Okay, so they need to test this with something like a sweet potato to see if the reaction is the same with a different type of carb and then try with a low carb food like a spinach avocado salad and see what the result is for that. So for now I guess don't eat mung fruit with a high carb food and if you do, test your blood sugar levels before and after.
what about using stevia?
Thanks Dr
Not enough data to me how was the fried rice made ie what were the ingredients rice raises blood sugar everybody knows.
Agreed. I felt white rice especially fried white rice will raise the sugar level of most people, so not a good study since you dont know if the spike of glucose was due to the rice or monk fruit?
Dr Chan. 🙏🏾 for sharing the research. it helps me out on my thought process. I know nutritional science is evolving. I feel today we know so little, but definitely more than my parents generation. I remember my parents thinking direct starch and sugar increase blood sugar, when we know it affects insulin production today which affects blood sugar!
personally I feel any kind of sweetener is bad because of its addictive quality. I have reduced enormously The amount of sugar n starch I eat. It Has to be special to be worthy of poisoning my body. Sometimes I treat myself to a very expensive slice of bread or a pastry as a reward. No more junky on sale grocery bakeries!
Me in the past could guzzle down copious amounts of soda without a thought. Today I find it so cloyingly sweet that I can only handle a few sips.
I like where I am now because I don’t give into my addiction for sugar or starch.
Oh my... this is a very flawed study because it is measuring blood sugar NOT INSULIN... there was no elevated insulin response to monk fruit because it did not raise blood sugar... the table sugar raised blood sugar which the body responded to by raising insulin, which then lowered blood sugar... when the fried rice (pure carbohydrate) was consumed... there was less of a spike in blood sugar after first consuming table sugar because insulin was already raised... this is why blood sugar spiked more after eating rice after consuming monk-fruit. Because insulin was LOWER.. Please note that White RICE is actually higher on the glycemic index than table sugar. This "doctor" should be ashamed of himself for presenting this BS study engineered by the American sugar lobby...
So monkfruit even in a large amount is safe for type 2 diabetics?
If there was a control group that just ate fried rice after 1 hour than you would have more information on if it was the monkfruit or the lack of sugar with rice might spike your blood sugar level.
So...if the first hour before the rice, the blood sugar didn't move - I think it's a good way to control appetite? And in a real situation would mean that person would not eat as much of the friend rice? Is that a wrong assumption?
Perhaps plant based/artificial sweeteners exaggerate the affect if you have high GI food after but not if the food after is low GI?
I think there are flaws in associating the question you asked with the studies you provided. First, the study was looking into people without diabetes. Second, the primary reason for the spike in glucose levels is because of the sugared drink and the rice, not monk fruit. So if I were to use monk fruit, I wouldn't have issues with sugar spikes. So I actually don't understand the point of your video.
So for diabetics it is best to avoid any sweet foods??
Not just sugar laced food but avoid carbs or lessen your carb intake. Sugar is a form of carbs. Fruits are also bad. Some fruits like strawberry, blueberry, cranberry are fine for diabetic but not the dried types as they are usually added with sugar. Eat these fruits moderately. Also not all sweetner are the same so far I know Stevia, monk fruit, erythritol, xylitol are ok but some of these sweetner if consumed too much may give you some indigestion problem because our body cannot digest erythritol, xylitol. Moderate amount is fine.
Learn to change your taste bud slowly to get used to blander food with less sugar, salt and if possible learn to drink black coffee, tea without sugar or milk. If you absolutely need to have some milk can try almond milk in your coffee/tea. Moderate is key.
Best is to buy a blood sugar test kit and test your sugar yourself and see what kind of food sent your blood sugar sky high 1 hour after meal. Compare your reading before and 1 hour and 2 hour after meal. Some food may sent your sugar level higher only after 2 hours.
Learn to read the lable whenever you buy any package/canned food especially the carbs content. Fiber is also carbs but fiber will not spike your sugar so look at the total carbs and sublevel that tells you how much fiber (if there's breakdown) then use total carb - fiber to get the net carbs that is the value you need to consider as that's what spike insulin level.
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I am using it for making cheese cake :) How high the blood sugar spike related to fried rice.
Thank you Dr for the info about monkfruit. How about coconut sugar with low GI. Is that safe for diabetic?
Hey Kayla, coconut sugar though lower in GI than table sugar (sucrose) will still raise blood glucose, so wherever possible, instead of looking for 'better' sweeteners, the better way is always to strive to change one eating habits and consequently one's palate whereby one can still enjoy foods and beverages without any added sweeteners of any kind. Cheers.