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Many airlines no longer serve meals but offer
snack bags for longer flights. I was recently on a Delta flight to Seattle
and the flight attendant was looking for a person who had ordered a
“diabetic snack”
I looked at the “diabetic snack” and found?
1. Bagel, cream cheese, apple,
2. BLT with Turkey on Whole Wheat, baked
potato chips, apple, low fat cookie
3. Turkey on Baked Pretzel, mayo, potato chips, 2 small mint cookies
4. Small turkey salad with Swiss cheese cubes, oil and vinegar dressing,
cantaloupe wedge, crackers, yogurt.
Answer:
2. BLT with Turkey on Whole Wheat, baked potato
chips, apple, low fat cookie.
When I asked the flight attendant how many carbs were
in the snack she had no idea or listing. She checked for a form that
listed nutritional information but could find none.
This “diabetic snack” has 121 carbs (calculated
from our sources) and both the baked potato chips and low fat cookie
have more carbs than their regular counterparts found in the other choices.
In addition this is very low fat and this could allow for rapid increases
in blood glucose, not something you would want in a snack on a long
flight. Somehow the airline food “gods” have decided that
diabetes patients only need to worry about fat content.
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