Pecan Snack - PCOS-Friendly Recipe

Pecan Snack
Servings: 32
Lunch

Nutrition per Serving

0 Calories
0g Protein
0g Carbs
0g Fat
Recipe by Bea Gassman These smell like a walk through a county fair, and they taste heavenly!

Ingredients

  • 1 egg white
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 pound pecans
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
  2. In a large bowl, beat egg white with water until frothy. Stir in pecans and mix to coat. Combine sugar, cinnamon and salt and stir into pecan mixture. Spread on a baking sheet.
  3. Bake in preheated oven 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

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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