Life hack my well-meaning but ignorant coworker shared with me yesterday: if cupcakes are vegan, that means they have less sugar because sugar CANE apparently isn’t vegan or organic 🙃 😖 🧁
People don’t know what words mean and it bugs me when this dilemma escapes off the internet.
Sugar cane is, in fact, a plant. Which can be organic. If I turn down a cupcake, it’s not because I can’t eat sugar, it’s because I have to do a lot of math to figure out how much medicine [insulin] I need first, and I wasn’t given any numbers with which to do said math, because the small independent vegan? bakery that made the cupcakes didn’t give any nutritional information along with the cupcakes.
Yes, this applies to ALL foods with ANY carbohydrates (including but not limited to sugar), including breads, all fruits, some vegetables, some cheeses, freaking condiments, and a whole lot more.
If you know someone who has type 1 diabetes and you want to make them feel included when you’re doing something that involves food, literally all you have to do is make sure there is accurate nutritional information available (specifically the carbohydrate count per serving size! And, you know, the serving size used to calculate that).
This means store bought brand names are often actually much easier than homemade or bakery-bought foods because everything is standardized and labeled per the FDA. (Also make sure to not then TEAR said label in half right over the carbohydrate info when you open the container. Please and thank you 😊)
^The difference between a torn nutrition label and an intact label.
Foods like fruits are also much easier to calculate for than, say, pizza or your aunt’s famous lasagna, because they contain roughly the same amount of carbs per serving, so the only numbers we’re missing then is the size, which is much easier to guess. If you’ve got a whole entire recipe to guess, especially at BOTH the ingredients used AND the specific amounts, it is much much harder to correctly guess all those numbers.
Sometimes I would rather skip the cupcake than do a surprise math test where the grade is my health.
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