Using of Ice Cream for Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus

The ice cream was made by nutritionists in Ramathibodi Hospital. It consisted of cornstarch, milk, sucrose, milk powder, egg yolk, and banana which contained carbohydrate 73.9 g, fat 27.7 g, protein 18.9 g for a total of 620.9 kcal with a cost of 35 bahts. The time for complete ingesting 75-g glucose and ice cream was 5 and 15 minutes, respectively.

The 75-g glucose is used for standard oral glucose tolerance test.