Cinnamon Toast Pecans - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups pecan halves, (about 1 lb)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 °. Stir together first 5 ingredients. Add pecans, tossing to coat. Spread coated nuts in a single layer on a large jellyroll pan. Bake for one hour stirring every 15 minutes. Let cool; store in an airtight container up to 2 weeks. Yields about 4 cups.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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