Generally speaking, food that spikes your blood sugar contributes to excess weight gain. One of the surest ways we can identify whether a food will negatively affect weight goals is to measure our blood sugar levels after eating.
Thankfully we have thousands of peer reviewed studies that have done the work on which foods cause a spike, and a few tools like the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load to help inform our decisions.
I’ve teased out two ways to use that information to make smoothies for low blood sugar:
