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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#1695 Bolus 4 - Lettuce

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Jenny and Scott talk about how to bolus for lettuce and all that can come with it.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, friends. You are listening to the Juice Box podcast.

0:14.1

In every episode of bowl us for, Jenny Smith and I are going to take a few minutes to talk through how to bowl us for a single item of food.

0:22.2

Jenny and I are going to follow a little bit of a roadmap called meal bolt. Measure the meal.

0:28.2

Evaluate yourself. Add the base units. Layer a correction. Build the bowl of shape.

0:33.7

Offset the timing. Look at the CGM. Tweek for next time. Having said that, these episodes are going

0:40.0

to be very conversational and not incredibly technical. We want you to hear how we think about it,

0:46.3

but we also would like you to know that this is kind of the pathway we're considering while we're

0:50.6

talking about it. So while you might not hear us say every letter of meal bolt in every episode, we will be thinking about it while we're talking about it. So while you might not hear us say every letter of meal

0:54.6

bolt in every episode, we will be thinking about it while we're talking. If you want to learn more,

1:00.0

go to juiceboxpodcast.com forward slash meal dash bolt. But for now, we'll find out how to bowl us

1:06.1

for today's subject.

1:17.8

Nothing you hear on the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise.

1:22.0

Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan.

1:28.4

Number four on the U.S. top most consumed vegetable list, I thought this was going to be number one because of how many people I see eating salad. I just thought lettuce has got to be up there.

1:36.2

And I mean, number four is pretty high on the list, obviously. Well, and it's also not just

1:40.8

salad, but it's used in sandwiches. It's everywhere. It's everywhere, right?

1:46.0

But here it is. Some of the other ones have been talked about about like the pounds that people

1:50.8

take in a year. This doesn't get spoken about this way on my list. It says it's one of the

1:55.7

most purchased leafy greens and about 20% of all vegetables consumed iceberg and romaine lead it out. So that's it.

2:05.9

So mostly people are eating romaine or iceberg lettuce.

2:09.2

Or iceberg. Yeah. That's a lot. So carbs in lettuce. I don't know. Like how do you even want people

2:16.1

to think about this? Is it like when we're doing this, you know, when we're measuring, is it like, am I counting leaves? Am I just trying to like see the size of the bowl and get like a vibe? You know what I mean? Because it goes along with that fist again. Yeah. A fist is a cup. a cup of greens that are either Roman or iceberg, which are primarily,

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