How to Enjoy Bread Without Raising Your Glycemic Level

Only those who love bread truly know how difficult it is to give it up when managing blood sugar levels.

For diabetics, consuming large amounts of carbohydrates, especially bread, can be a real challenge. However, if you indulge occasionally (less than daily) and follow this simple tip, you won't raise your glycemic index and might even lower it slightly.

A study on how toasting bread (preferably whole grain and not white flour) affects diabetics' glycemic index found that toasting actually reduces blood sugar levels compared to fresh bread.

Does it change the caloric value as well? Not at all.

When you toast fresh bread, you lose water content, which doesn’t contain calories anyway. But for those who find starch difficult to digest, toasting is great news, as the process breaks down the starches (carbohydrates) and make it a bit easier for our stomachs to digest.

If you've toasted the bread and find the edges are burned, it’s best to skip those parts and not eat them. The 'burnt parts' contain a harmful chemical compound called acrylamide, which, if consumed in high quantities, can increase cancer risk.