Eating salads before carbs: Know how 'food sequencing' help glucose levels
FirstpostBy eating salads first, before proteins, and finishing the meal with starchy carbohydrates, blood glucose spikes will be flattened, which is better for you Leonie Heilbronn, University of Adelaide Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your diet can change your life. By eating salads first, before proteins, and finishing the meal with starchy carbohydrates, she says blood glucose spikes will be flattened, which is better for you. Most of the scientific research on whether eating food in a particular order makes a difference to glucose spikes involves giving a fibre, fat or protein “preload” before the meal. While this evidence shows eating protein before carbohydrates helps reduce glucose spikes, the evidence for eating other food groups separately, and in sequence, during an average meal is not so strong.