Your glucose levels should generally be 140 to 180 mg/dL after eating. But they can rise higher depending on many other factors, including your age and what food or drink you’ve consumed.
The foods and drinks you consume can raise your glucose levels quickly or more gradually over time. It’s important for people with diabetes to manage those fluctuations along with other factors, including how much insulin they may need for food and beverages.
But knowing exactly what’s considered “normal” for glucose levels can be tricky, given differing clinical guidance and how so much of diabetes management — and healthcare, overall — is individualized. That means what is a recommended glucose goal or target range for one person, may not be the same for someone else.
Learn more about the latest on clinical guidance when it comes to glucose levels after eating, whether you he diabetes or not and if low blood sugars (hypoglycemia) is something you experience.