Fruitcake from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Fruitcake from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

If you are unsure whether this Fruitcake recipe is suitable for your personal diabetic diet, please consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionalist.



“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”
~ a nation taste-blind.” M.F.K. Fisher


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Fruitcake Recipe


Recipe Ingredients:

1/2 cup Snipped dried figs
1/2 cup Chopped dates
1/2 cup Chopped prunes
1 cup Crushed pineapple
1 cup Dark raisins
2 cup Chopped apple (1 med. size)
1/2 cup Chopped walnuts
1/2 cup Orange juice
2 cup Whole wheat flour
1/2 cup Wheat germ, toasted
1 tbsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground nutmeg
2 Eggs

 

Recipe Instructions:

Combine the figs, dates, prunes, pineapple, raisins, apple, walnuts,
and orange juice in a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and mix
well.

Pour into a lightly oiled 10 inch tube pan. Bake in 350 F oven for
40 to 50 minutes.

1/15 cake - 193 calories, 1 bread, 1 1/2 fruit, 1 fat exchange 37
grams carbohydrate, 5 grams protein, 4 grams fat 117 mg sodium, 349
mg potassium, 37 mg cholesterol

Source : Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

Servings: 15




“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
~ Doug Larson


 

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Important Note: This Fruitcake recipe was located in the public domain.It is suitable' for diabetics and low carb diets solely because someone, somewhere, decided to publish them as such. I am not qualified in medicine or nutrition, so please use your own common sense when deciding which are appropriate for your particular diet.

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This Fruitcake Recipe may also be ideal for anyone following the Atkins diet, or seeking to reduce their carbohydrate intake for other reasons.

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