Your reviews let me know if it's something I can eat. I wouldn't eat Hero bread based on your first review but I now eat it regularly based on your latest review. Please don't ever stop doing reviews. Very helpful!
I thought the bread's ingredients were a little iffy (haven't checked it out in a long time because it's just too expensive). I don't trust "resistant wheat starch".
Thank you Steve. I'm a type 2 Diabetic... used to be hard core Keto, but now about 60/40 Keto/Sad... Because of your excellent and thorough evaluation, I know I should steer clear of this product as it is. I also appreciate the company's that listen to your evaluation of the products, and change it as needed! 👍
As a Type 2 diabetic I've seen the resistant starch stuff. Resistant wheat starch has never been listed. Wheat gluten would shoot my numbers sky high for hours. I've tested out Sola bread, it wasn't pretty. I threw the rest of it in the trash. The spike I got was 110 points at two hours. That's with me eating really clean for a week. I typically don't do well with grain flours though. Others tolerate it.
Hi Steve! 👋🐈 Thanks for taking another one for the team, in the name of Science. Yeah, I avoid bready stuff for the craving reason which you pointed out. I watch the carbs, avoid the wheat n soys but... I certainly do enjoy watching you munch down. Oh, my store, HEB, here in San Antonio, on all of the Sola products, have "KETO Friendly" printed where that big "5G" on yours is printed. Also, that the product is Keto certified. That would really make it difficult and confusing to someone who may be in the initial (brutal) stage of Keto. Your "neighbor over there" is priceless!!! 🐈
😂 Steve.... I'm laughing ⚡ electricity zap hit (GLAD you're ok). My bad for laughing! You know I love and respect your content! (I'm OG here, from Ontario, Canada)
I miss bagels too! I used to go to the local bagel shop, get six and eat three that day! I know that bagels are my danger food. I am better off just staying away! I liked your advice at the end of the video.
I'd say they're pretty close to being a danger food for me as well. To that end, I'm glad that these aren't sliced (in retrospect) and I keep them in my freezer. As such, there's no chance that I can just spontaneously eat them. I have to plan ahead a little.
Thank you for this testing. I am still struggling to keep my net carbs down and these seem a bit high for me. But your videos do a great job of providing information without wasting a lot of time. Thanks again.
Thanks for doing this! I am a type 2 diabetic, and have been eliminating various foods due to my morning glucose being higher than I'd like. One of the foods I eliminated were the Sola breads and bagels. I searched your page for this topic a few weeks ago and didn't find it, so I was thrilled to see it in my feed today. Your results make me think I can slowly bring Sola bagels back into my diet. Very glad, because they're really good! REQUEST! Another food I was suspicious of was another breakfast item... Magic Spoon cereals: Fruity, Cocoa and Blueberry. Could you please do a taste test/blood sugar video with those? Thanks for all you do!
Great review Steve! I've had Sola bagels a couple times and really enjoyed them toasted and with salmon cream cheese spread 😋 👍 Have a blessed weekend 💜 🙏 ✌️ 🎶 🌞 🪻
Thanks for doing this Steve! I won't be partaking due to the ingredients, but I wanted to help the algorithm. You are very thorough in you reviews and they merit acknowledgment. Great day to ya!
Thank you so much for reviewing these! I buy these regularly because they are readily available at my Meijer . I’m not the biggest fan of the blueberry because I also taste the slight bitter aftertaste but spreading on blueberry cream cheese makes it a little better. I’m not diabetic, nor am I intolerant of the ingredients so for me it’s a great way to have a low-carb bagel option.
Really appreciate that you shared this review. Based on all the ‘breads’ you’ve reviewed and my experiences, I thank that for me, I’d rather adjust to no breads and stick with chaffles. 😉 I’m not diabetic (1 or 2), but I just feel better when I don’t indulge.
@@SeriousKeto thanks so much for the reply & congratulations on little Calvin he’s adorable 🥰. They have the bagels & buns at whole foods & if you watch you can catch them on sale.
24 grams of fiber, 31g carbs, that leads to a 1.3 ratio of Carbs over Fiber. That is quite a good value for a Bagel. For comparison, a typical whole grain Bagel may be 6g fiber and 50g carbs for a 8.3 ratio. - It is a Bagel after all, so I am not sure it can get much better.
Ty Steve, love and appreciate your test videos ! Wonder if it would make a little difference to leave off the un-toasted bagel altogether? Kinda like the frozen and toasted regular bread....just curious about your thoughts, not suggesting another test.
My suspicion is that any difference in glucose reading would still be within the margin of error of the sensor. Regardless, I suspect that whenever I eat these bagels going forward, they will be toasted. They just taste much better that way.
Love the tee shirt. Thanks Steve as always. I have been looking at those.I would never eat a bagel untoasted. Yum about the shaved Roast Beast. Listen for an occasional treat that isnt bad.
Great review Steve! I really miss bagels and I have had the Solo bread on occasion and liked it. So I really hope I can find the blueberry ones in my store to try. 😋 🥯
Your videos are so helpful! I have recently tried Royo brand bagels. They usually do not spike my blood sugar and have been the best tasting I've found. I have not tried Sola. Royo is, I think, only available online. Trying their bread product today and hoping that I dont have a spike from that.
Even with all the low carb bread options I don't risk it and use lettuce boats from Kroger for my sandwiches. I miss bagels though. Thanks for the review and testing Steve. Those bagels look good. I especially miss an onion bagel with cream cheese.
Personally(as you figured from my name) I don't eat these ... BUT, your opinion means a lot to me because if you find them palatable, I would buy them for my "SAD" Husband Jack. Keep all of the reviews coming! ❤ Geri
My personal experience (everyone's will vary, obviously): I am a type 2 diabetic and I when I eat the bagel with cream cheese on its own, I do see a glucose spike. However, if I have the sola bagel with cream cheese and added protein as a breakfast sandwich (just egg or egg and ham/bacon/sausage) then I don't see a spike.
Hey Steve, I may have asked you this a while back but I don’t remember 😅… but have you ever tried “The Better Bagel” brand low carb bagels you can get at Whole Foods? They may also have them other places but I can usually find them at Whole Foods unless they’re out of stock, which happens often. They have fairly clean ingredients, are 5 grams net carbs, and to me they taste VERY close to what “real” bagels taste like. Their plain and cinnamon raisin flavors are amazing! They also have an everything bagel and a pretzel bagel which are also good but in my opinion not as good as the other two. They don’t spike my blood sugar as much as most other low carb bagels and breads I’ve tried but I’d be curious to see what your experience is with them if you ever get a chance! Thanks for your videos!!
@@SeriousKeto oh that stinks. They’re in the frozen section, otherwise I’d send you some 😅! I do hope you find them somewhere else sometime. I think you’ll like them 🥯
@@SeriousKeto sorry, last one, but I just saw that they do have a website and they do have a store finder on there as well as the ability to ship the products directly from the website. It’s BetterBrand. Thanks again for your videos, have a good day 😊
I can't eat these, but I am working on weaning my husband off commercial breads due to the seed oils. So I will get this for him to taste as he doesn't need to count carbs.
Interesting story regarding the cgi and the battery. Seeing how your body prepped you for "Fight or Flight," you could control the spike by a quick sprint or start an argument with Terry!
The thing is, I only get the spikes when it's a surprise. If I were to combat it by going out for a run prior to a pain incident, then it must mean that I know it's coming and thus it wouldn't be a surprise (if that makes sense). For instance, I've had some tattoos that were really painful (sternum and collar bone) and had no glucose response because I was mentally prepared for the pain.
@SeriousKeto Nice clarification, thanks. I was just thinking that if you're scared and your blood sugar goes up, that means the body is giving you energy to flee or fight. But it turns out you're not scared, so now you're left with fighting energy. The joke was to pick an argument with a spouse to not waste the spike.. That's OK, my wife doesn't get my jokes either. Come to think of it, the most common response to my jokes is just long stares.
Well maybe I'll have to give them a try. Just for once in a while. They finally got Hero bread locally and it is by far my favorite Keto bread. It tastes more like bread than any others. Thanks for your follow-up review. And I love those wild and crazy t-shirts you're wearing. 🤪😎
I find that by freezing these bagels, it creates a bit of a "regulator" on my consumption. I have to plan ahead if I want to eat one, giving them time enough to thaw so that I can slice them.
I'm glad I watched this one. I've been eyeing Sola products. I have carb hypersensitivity, so these are not for me. Adding protein and fat is kind of hot and miss for me. I'd rather not have a spike that makes me feel like hot garbage 😂
I have a combo pacemaker/defib and warned about keeping certain distances from electrical-emitting appliances. Three or four times in the last two years it emitted a tonal sound. I finally figured it out: it really doesn't like strong magnets and my new wallet has a strong magnet-bill clip. I don't monitor my glucose and wonder if those issues would effect me.
That's an interesting discovery. I don't think a continuous glucose monitor would cause similar issues, unless Bluetooth causes issues for you. Fortunately, both Abbott and Dexcom will be releasing over-the-counter CGMs very soon and you can test them out.
l have been waiting for this review for a while. I really like Sola bagels but avoid it , it taste too good to be true. Too bad it is not perfect. Thanks for doing it!
Whats the difference between total carbs and net carbs? How do I know which one I should be following? Thx for the review, I miss real bagels. When I visit NY I'm so envious of everyone when they eat fresh bagels!
Since wearing a cgm I have learned to examine the inert ingredients of every supplement/OTC drug for things like cornstarch filler. They cause me huge bg spikes. Unfortunately it seems that the cheaper generics are the worst offenders.
Many of the fat soluble vitamins also use soybean oil or canola oil. It's a shame that these things that we are taking for our health contain a lot of things we avoid for the sake of our health.
Thank you Steve! I enjoy the pizza flavor now and then. I ordered some of the sweet flavors once….I didn’t really like them, because of the bitter aftertaste. ❤
I hope to try them soon. I like the taste of their products, but my big concern with bagels is that they nail the texture and that it's not just a hamburger bun with a hole in the middle.
@@SeriousKeto I agree. I got a whole pack with holes. The newsletter says that they are boiling them then baking. So far so good but shape is an issue so they are selling them as prototypes. I want a bagel with bacon and cream cheese. That said, I lost my taste and smell from my first bout of Covid two weeks ago. It’s horrible to cook or shop.
@@SeriousKeto got an email from them saying that it was too hot where I live so I had to pat $15 more to fly it in overnight. That’s $30 shipping. It’s California but this week 75-83 degrees and we got rain yesterday. I’m done with them.
@@collettesnoozy7950 I can certainly understand your frustration. UnbelievaBun products are made fresh and without preservatives, which is why they are shipped 2-day priority. Because their bakery is on the east coast, shipping gets more expensive the further west you are. I realize that doesn't soften the blow, but I know that Jerrod is trying to find a bakery on the West coast so that he can provide either free or less expensive shipping to more of the country.
@@SeriousKeto if they charge it up front I would be better prepared. I already paid $15.37 when I ordered. Then wondering what happened I found an email saying it is hot where I live and they have to add another $15 to ship them. If they checked the weather they had a week of mild record setting cool weather to ship in.
I haven't tried the bagels. I tried the hotdog buns several times and they spiked my blood sugar dramatically. I am technically a Type 2 diabetic. I'm controlled with my diet, exercise and Berberine supplements , no more prescription medications.
@@SeriousKeto It's been awhile since you've reviewed Aunt Millie's and other brands of bread. So many new keto breads out now. Like you've said in your video, some might read low carb but stall weight loss. And really, a main reason why we are eating keto IS for the weight loss and would prefer to skip the ones that stall weight loss. Sorry, if you've done this video before. Maybe I just missed it. :) Your opinion is the most trusted on YT.
@@jaywellington6504 I have a playlist of breads and tortillas I’ve reviewed. The reality is that it’s impossible to keep up with all of the brands and little ingredient changes. I do the best I can. 😉
@@SeriousKeto Ha! You underestimate your comprehensive investigative skills AND maybe more importantly, your accurate and honest viewpoint on taste. Thanks Steve! You're helping so many people live a healthier life style. And in my book, that's a pretty good claim to fame.🙂
I think it's better than seed oils, but not as good as olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, or tallow. At the very least, it doesn't cause me any inflammation.
It's kind of crazy that real, artisan bread can be made with just 4 ingredients. Meanwhile, "low carb" or "keto" bread seems to have 10 times that many (at least the stuff in grocery stores).
Not really related topic BUT… do blender bottles fit in your winerack? Just wondering before I mount the 2 ikea wine racks lingering in my basement on my kitchen wall!!!
I want a good low carb onion bagel. I used to eat one everyday, but I haven't found a low carb bagel that's even in the neighborhood of a real bagel.. Don't have Sola products available where I live.
Orowheat, Arnold, and Brownberry are all the same bread with different regional names. I review Brownberry in the latter half of this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NPeKfd6VUJA.htmlsi=fpWQUWBv5A_VRDCn I believe Nature's Own is regional. I haven't seen it around here.
I’m still prediabetic ( hgba1c at 5.2). When I’ve eaten Sola bread my glucose does not go over 120. I don’t eat it often though. I manage my glucose with ketovore diet, no meds.
It is and you can. Just by having the Dexcom app on your phone, it will direct any alerts to your watch, but you can also install a native app to the Apple watch. I had it installed briefly, and for reasons I don't remember, I uninstalled it. I think it may have been that it didn't refresh in real time.
The OTC ones from Dexcom and Abbott are supposed to release soon. I'm waiting to hear from Levels Health if their app will be compatible with the OTC CGMs.
@@SeriousKetoThat price would be awesome. I am a type 2 and because I do not take insulin, I have to pay out of packet. It costs me about $75 per month for the Libre and $125 for the Dexcom. I find the Dexcom more accurate as well as the fact that the readings go directly to my Apple Watch. Thanks for the early info.
I think because a significant portion of those carbs are supposed to be indigestible. At some point, maybe I'll do a test on a real bagel and see how the glucose response compares.
I am not a basher but truth is i have bought sola bread more than 3 times before i figured out it molds so fast! I freeze all keto breads i buy and as thawed that one out it molded within 24 hrs. I do not buy that brand anymore.Taste is good to us but none of the others do that .Not even the homeade that i make.
I freeze mine as well, but honestly, I think the fact that it molds is a good sign. If it didn't mold at all, that would say something about ingredients. That said, 24 hours is pretty insane to be seeing mold...
@@jennifercline6866 That's hard to say unless I had a twin that didn't take it so we could compare results. I'm pretty wrinkle free for a 56 year old, I think, but I can't say that I've seen any truly profound benefits.
I called out the ingredients I did because a number of them could potentially be allergens for some folks, or just ingredients it seems people often choose to avoid. I didn't imply that those ingredients could impact blood glucose (though they might).
I don't think I've had ANY bread product or tortilla that tasted remotely good that didn't have some sort of wheat product or gluten in it. UnBun makes some bagels that don't have any, and it is one of the least palatable things I've ever eaten.
Hi Steve! Did you happen to see UnbelievaBuns’ Weekly Update this past Saturday? They did a major new announcement of UnbelievaBagels! 🙌🏼 I was so happy when I saw it. Available in Everything Seasoning and Plain. I hope in the future when you do another UnbelievaBuns review that you’re able to test out these bagels and their UnbelievaPizza flatbreads. 🥯🍕🤗 I’m on the West Coast so I have to hold off buying a big purchase until the cooler months. As always, thank you so much for all you do. You’re def an asset to the Keto community. 🩵🩷🤍 from SoCal to Serious Keto’s 3 generation family
