Can diabetics drink tea?

Diabetic patients can drink tea, especially suitable for drinking green tea, flower tea and lotus leaf winter melon skin tea and so on. Diabetics drink tea, can play the role of rehydration, dilute blood sugar. Tea is rich in vitamins, amino acids and trace elements, especially rich in B vitamins, but also contains a large amount of vitamin C, can improve metabolism. The consumption of tea by diabetic patients can play a certain degree of hypoglycemic effect, blood sugar to achieve the ideal, can reduce the acute and chronic complications of diabetes. Diabetic patients are often combined with high blood lipids and high uric acid, drinking tea can also play a role in lowering blood lipids and uric acid. Diabetic patients can drink tea as long as they do not have diabetic nephropathy and do not develop swelling.