Slow Cooker Carrot Cake Steel Cut Oats - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 10 cups water
- 23 ounces unsweetened applesauce
- 2 cups steel cut oats
- 1 (10 ounce) bag shredded carrots
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup granular no-calorie sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda®) (optional)
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
Instructions
- Combine water, applesauce, oats, carrots, pineapple, raisins, sweetener, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in the crock of a 7-quart or larger slow cooker.
- Cook on Low for 6 hours.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Apples.
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). Apples wi...
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