A good friend of mine has type 2 diabetes, and I often hear him say that what he misses most are banana splits. I want to make him a diabetic safe split for Christmas and the bananas are the hard part since they are high in sugar and don’t exactly come in sugar free. But I’ve heard that fried bananas are much better for a diabetic diet then raw. Is this true?
Bananas are not the problem. Fruit is a recommended part of a diabetic diet.
The problem with a banana split is the usual overabundance of ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate syrup.
You can get sugar free ice cream (but - the carbohydrate count is not much less than standard ice cream since a lot of the carbs come from the milk portion); you can get sugar free chocolate syrup (again, however, the carb count will probably only be slightly less than real syrup); and whipped cream really does not contain much in the way of carbs.
Diabetics can eat everything that a non-diabetic can eat — they simply have to account for the carbs much more carefully. Does your friend exercise as part of his way of controlling blood sugar levels? Then have a small banana split, and 20 minutes later, go for a half hour walk.
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