From: SuppVersity – Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone
8/15/18
If you’re following my friend Alex Leaf on Facebook, you will have heard about the role of “nutrient order” (that’s not “nutrient timing“) as an important determinant of your postprandial glucose response. If you haven’t heard about this, yet, let me briefly bring you up to speed: In a previous crossover study (Shukla 2017) involving metformin-treated subjects with T2DM, the authors of the study that’s at the center of today’s SuppVersity article have already demonstrated that the ingestion of the protein and vegetable components (e.g. tomato, onion, and salad leaf + burger patty) of a given meal 10 minutes before the carbohydrate components (e.g. burger bun) will lower the postprandial glucose and insulin excursions over 180 min, compared to eating the same foods in the reverse order, or eating them all together (bye-bye sandwiches & burgers).