Recently, I ate some chocolate that contained sugar alcohol. I was told that it wouldn’t hurt me. I check my sugar daily. A couple days after eating the chocolate, my sugar went up to 280 to 300 mg/dl [15.6 to 16.7 mmol/L]. It has taken me about three weeks to get my sugar back to 180 to 200 mg/dl [10.0 to 11.1 mmol/L] Was it the sugar alcohol that caused my sugar to jump? If so, what can I eat in place of that?

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