Carrot, Apple, and Zucchini Muffins - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 cup shredded unpeeled zucchini
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 large apple, cored and shredded
- 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
- 1 cup sucralose and brown sugar blend (such as Splenda® brown sugar blend)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup skim milk
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 lemon, zest only
- 1 orange, zest only
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat 24 muffin cups with cooking spray.
- Stir zucchini, carrots, and apple together in a large bowl. Mix in yogurt, sucralose and brown sugar blend, eggs, applesauce, skim milk, canola oil, lemon zest, and orange zest until thoroughly combined.
- Whisk all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice in a separate bowl. Gently stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients until just combined. Fold walnuts into batter. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, Apples, Nuts, Walnuts.
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). Lemons ca...
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