Honey is 70%-80% sugar, mainly containing glucose, fructose, sucrose, and very little water. Therefore, honey cannot lower blood sugar, on the contrary, honey has the effect of raising blood sugar. Honey contains potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and other trace elements, for ordinary people is a very good food, can moisten the lungs and moisturize the stool, but also has a nourishing effect. Since honey is a highly sugary food, when hypoglycemia occurs in the organism, some honey can be eaten quickly to raise the blood sugar rapidly to relieve the symptoms of hypoglycemia. However, diabetic patients as well as impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance patients, can not eat too much honey, otherwise it is easy to cause elevated blood sugar, even if the fasting glucose is impaired as well as abnormal glucose tolerance patients, can only eat a little bit of honey in small quantities, but diabetic patients to eat honey, the degree of risk of elevated blood glucose will be greatly increased. Diabetic patients, as well as patients with impaired fasting glucose and abnormal glucose tolerance, need dietary control, the overall control of calories eaten every day, in which the carbohydrate content of the day about 50% of the calories, if you eat honey, it will make the body intake of energy over the limit, and can not achieve the effect of dietary control. Diabetic patients, as well as patients with impaired fasting glucose and abnormal glucose tolerance, if you really want to eat some sweet food, you can eat some sugar substitutes, including xylitol, aspartame made of sweets, pastries, but need to be eaten in moderation, can not be used as a daily necessity.