Chocolate is a sweet food that tends to create spikes in blood sugar levels that are unhealthy. Fortunately, there is a type of chocolate that allows you to indulge without being too detrimental to your blood sugar levels. We’ll tell you which one.
Sugar is everywhere (even where we don’t expect it), and if we readily appreciate its delicious and regressive taste when we bite into a square of chocolate (a sweetening food loved by all), it skyrockets our rate of blood sugar. Negative consequences of this little culinary pleasure, the chocolate thus promotes weight gain and the development of certain diseases such as diabetes. While it remains essential to limit its consumption, especially when it comes in the form of truffles, chocolate candies or chocolate bars that are much too rich in sugar, it is possible to eat it without too much fear for your health, condition of choose it well.
Not surprisingly, it is in tablet form that it is best to eat chocolate when you want to limit the blood sugar spike that it causes. But above all, you have to choose the right option between milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and dulcey chocolate. As explained in the doctor biochemist Jessie Inchauspé on her Instagram account rich in practical and easy-to-adopt tips on a daily basis to regulate your blood glucose level, it’s dark chocolate that you have to eat when we want avoid blood sugar spikes which are bad for your health, because it has a very limited impact on our blood sugar levels. A godsend when you have trouble doing without it every day with your coffee or at the end of meals.
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Dark chocolate: what percentage of cocoa should you choose to avoid blood sugar spikes?
The author of The glucose method is clear, the best chocolate for blood glucose levels, “it’s dark chocolate”. And for good reason, there is nothing magical about the fact that it causes fewer blood sugar spikes than the others. As explained on the site dedicated to diabetes Making Diabetes Easier, “the higher the cocoa percentage of a chocolate, the lower its sugar content”. This is why dark chocolate is preferred for daily consumption, compared to milk chocolate or white chocolate for example. “Dark chocolate with 70% cocoa has the lowest glycemic index (22), followed by milk chocolate (45), and white chocolate, which has the highest glycemic index (45 to 60)” thus specifies the site. If 70% dark chocolate is a very good choice and a good start to treat yourself without skyrocketing your blood sugar level, it is also possible to turn to dark chocolates even richer in cocoa, containing between 80% and 90% if you like their powerful taste.
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