Spiced Pecan-Cherry Crunch Mix Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 large egg white
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups gluten-free oven-toasted rice cereal (such as Koala)
- 3/4 cup pecan halves, coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup dried cherries
- 2 teaspoons grated orange rind
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 °.
- Beat egg white with a mixer at medium speed in a medium bowl until foamy. Combine sugar and next 3 ingredients. Add sugar mixture to beaten egg white, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in cereal and next 3 ingredients. Spread cereal mixture on a foil-lined baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
- Bake at 300 ° for 20 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. 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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