Understanding high crash foods
High-crash foods give you a steep glucose crash, which is not good for your metabolic health. These crashes can lead to subsequent hunger and overfeeding and/or cause lethargy.
Strategies to optimize high crash foods
- Add more complex carbs to your meal: Complex carbs could include whole food grains like quinoa, buckwheat and whole wheat items. These do not spike your glucose.
- Add more fibre and protein to your meal. This creates the hypercompensation effect that smoothens the glucose response curve.
- Fermented foods: Fermented foods like sourdough bread might have a slightly better glucose response than their non-fermented versions.
- Hack: Drinking 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar pre-meal will smoothen the glucose crash
- The sequence of foods sorted by a lower probability of crash responses is → Fiber > Protein > Carbs > Simple Sugar. Eat your meals in the above sequence to improve the glucose response.
