Eat Your Dal and Sabzi First, Rice Last
The sequence in which food lands in your stomach changes how fast glucose enters your blood, measurably, not marginally. A 2015 study by Dr. Alpana Shukla at Weill Cornell Medicine, published in Diabetes Care, tested people with type 2 diabetes eating the same meal in different orders. When protein and vegetables came before carbohydrates, post-meal glucose was 29% lower at the 30-minute mark and 37% lower at 60 minutes compared to eating carbs first.
