Rachel's Cream Cheese Fruit Salad - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 pears
- 2 apples, cored and chopped
- 2 ripe bananas, sliced
- 1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
- 3 cups seedless grapes
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 8 ounces fat-free strawberry cream cheese
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup fat-free pretzels, broken
Instructions
- Combine the pears, apples, bananas, strawberries and grapes. Add lemon juice and toss.
- Blend together the cream cheese, brown sugar, vanilla and cinnamon; add the fruit and pretzels. Fold together. Serve immediately with a dollop of lite whipped topping or refrigerate until chilled.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, 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). Lemons ca...
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