Tropical Muffins Recipe

1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 sugar substitute to equal
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup unsweetened grated coconut
3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup reduced calorie margarine melted
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp grated orange rind
1/3 cup unsweetened orange juice
1 vegetable cooking spray

Sift together flour, sugar substitute, baking powder, soda, and salt in a
large bowl; stir in coconut, and make a well in center of mixture.

Combine bananas, margarine, egg, orange rind, and juice; add to dry
ingredients, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Spoon batter into muffin pans coated with cooking spray, filling
two-thirds full. Bake at 375?F. for 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly
browned. Makes 12 muffins.

PER SERVING (1 Muffin):
Calories: 115
Protein: 2 gm
Fat: 3 gm
Carbohydrates: 19 gm
Cholesterol: 23 mg
Fiber: Trace
Sodium: 224 mg
Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fat

FROM: All New Cookbook for Diabetics and Their Families by University of
Alabama at Birmingham copyright 1988

Serves: 12

Is this Tropical Muffins Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Tropical Muffins recipe is one of our collection of diabetic Muffin recipes. Because we have no knowledge of your precise health concerns and the advice your doctors have offered you, we really can`t say with certainty that this Tropical Muffins recipe is acceptable for you. For all that, as the recipe author labeled it as `diabetic` it suggest that it, if nothing else, covers the basic specification for the label `diabetic`, being low in fat and carbs and consequently should be more healthy than the non-diabetic equivalent. However, this Tropical Muffins recipe should only be used In the event that you understand your own condition and are happy that the ingredients are OK for you.

This Tropical Muffins Recipe is part of the diabetic Muffin recipes collection. Clearly, it is inconceivable for us to validate every one of the diabetic Muffin recipes to establish that all of them are totally acceptable for diabetics. We have over two thousand unique recipes in the collection, & to validate each recipe even at one recipe per day would occupy us for nearly 6 years. Our advice is to analyse the ingredients to confirm that they comply with the nutritional guidelines your doctors have given you. If you suspect that this Tropical Muffins recipe is not appropriate, please let us know and we will delete the problem recipe from our recipe site.

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