Diabetes and Eating Well: Foods to Avoid with Diabetes

Diabetes and Eating Well: Foods to Avoid with Diabetes

This is a comprehensive list that contains foods that you should avoid, or use with caution, if you have diabetes or low blood sugar ailments.

Sweets and Sweeteners

Powdered sweeteners (other than stevia)

Candies, especially so-called sugar-free types

Honey and fructose (high fructose corn syrup)

All "diet" and "sugar-free" foods

Desserts, including pastries, cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, etc.

Foods containing, as a significant ingredient, products whose names

end in –ol or –ose (like dextrose, glucose, lactose, nammitol, mannose, sorbitol, sucrose, xylitol, xylose, etc.), except cellulose.

Corn syrup, molasses, maltodextrin, maple syrup

Sweet or Starchy Vegetables

Beans: chili beans, chickpeas, lima beans, lentils, sweet peas, et cetera (string beans, snow peas and bell and chili peppers, which are mostly cellulose, are okay)

Beets, carrots, corn, parsnips, potatoes, onions (except in small amounts for seasoning), packaged creamed spinach containing flour, cooked tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and raw tomatoes except in small amounts, winter squash

Fruits and Juices

All fruits (except avocados)

All juices (including tomato and vegetable juices)

Certain Dairy Products

Milk, sweetened and low-fat yogurts, cottage cheese

Powdered milk substitutes and coffee lighteners, canned milk concentrate

Grains and Grain Products

Wheat, rye, barley, corn (also popcorn), and lesser-know "alternative" grains such as kasha, quinoa and amaranth

White, brown, wild rice, or rice cakes

All forms of pasta

Breakfast cereals both cold and hot

Pancakes and waffles

Bread, crackers and other flour products (except certain high fiber crisp breads)

Prepared Foods

Commercially prepared soups, most packaged "health foods," snack foods

(virtually anything that comes wrapped in cellophane, including nuts)

Balsamic vinegar (contains considerable sugar, white, cider or wine vinegar okay)

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