Blood Sugar Stabilizing Cinnamon Apple Overnight Oats - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats (US) or 90g (Metric)
- 1 cup almond milk (US) or 240ml (Metric)
- 1 apple chopped (US) or 125g (Metric)
- 1 tsp cinnamon (US) or 2.6g (Metric)
- 1 tbsp chia seeds (US) or 12g (Metric)
- 1 tbsp honey (US) or 21g (Metric)
- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt (US) or 60g (Metric)
Instructions
- In a jar, mix the oats, almond milk, chia seeds, and cinnamon.
- Add the chopped apple and stir.
- Cover the jar and refrigerate overnight.
- In the morning, stir in the Greek yogurt and drizzle with honey before serving.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Chia Seeds, Honey.
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). Chia seed...
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