Food therapy to treat diseases is a good wish for people to cure diseases, many patients hope that the usual food can meet the dual needs of food and cure, which is particularly tempting for diabetic patients. Therefore, on the market, there are many under the guise of “dietary therapy and plant insulin to lower sugar”, such as “bitter melon tablets, buckwheat capsules” and other “magic drugs to lower sugar”, claiming to be able to cure diabetes. In fact, a large number of added Western medicine to lower sugar ingredients. Today we will pick up with you in the end can bitter melon lower sugar? Ancient medical literature has recorded many herbal ingredients can treat thirst disease, bitter melon is one of them. Modern medicine found that bitter melon juice extract contains a variety of saponins, alkaloids, steroids, terpenoids, and peptides and other hypoglycemic active ingredients, but the extraction of these hypoglycemic active ingredients from bitter melon juice, through many complex physicochemical However, it takes many complex physicochemical steps to extract these hypoglycemic active ingredients from bitter melon juice. We cannot effectively extract these substances from bitter melon in the kitchen by stir-frying or salting it. Moreover, these peptide extracts, like insulin, are proteins that can only be injected subcutaneously or intraperitoneally to exert hypoglycemic effects, but are rapidly broken down by digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract and lose their original effects when taken directly orally. Many researchers at home and abroad have injected these substances extracted from bitter melon juice into diabetic mice subcutaneously and found that the mice’s blood sugar decreased to a certain extent, which is likely to reach the people and become “eating bitter melon can cure diabetes”. However, animal experiments only provide a possibility, and cannot be applied to humans as a scientific conclusion. For this reason, I have reviewed foreign clinical studies on whether bitter melon is used to lower blood sugar in diabetic patients, and found that the application of bitter melon extract to treat diabetic patients ranged from a few weeks to a few months, and no positive results were obtained in the end. That is, there was no significant decrease in blood glucose in diabetic patients who took bitter melon extracts orally. On the contrary, a few diabetic patients experienced symptoms such as abdominal pain and vomiting due to the massive application of this extract, which I speculate may be related to the cold nature of bitter melon. These practices prove that there is still a long way to go in relying on bitter melon to treat diabetes. So can diabetics still eat bitter melon? First of all, the most common indicator to evaluate whether a food is suitable for diabetic patients is the glycemic index. After eating foods with high glycemic index, people can easily digest them and absorb them at a high rate, which will be converted into glucose and enter the blood quickly and will promote a rapid rise in blood sugar after meals. Bitter melon is a typical low glycemic index food, the glycemic index value is only 24, close to cherry (22), cucumber (23), papaya (30), etc., much lower than carrots (71), pumpkin (75) and other foods, the impact on blood sugar is very small. Let’s look at the composition of bitter melon, bitter melon has more water, less carbohydrates, and also contains essential dietary fiber, a variety of vitamins and trace elements, appropriate consumption is very helpful for blood sugar control. However, bitter melon is cold and can cause stomach discomfort if eaten in excess. Therefore, although bitter melon alone does not have a significant hypoglycemic effect, but bitter melon contains a large amount of dietary fiber and vitamins, which has little effect on blood sugar, and appropriate consumption is beneficial but not harmful, especially in the hot summer, appropriate consumption of bitter melon can remove annoyance and relieve summer heat, clear heat and fire, but the concept of hoping that bitter melon can replace drugs to treat diabetes is incorrect. As long as you have active and healthy habits, coupled with rational treatment. I believe that all sugar lovers can control their blood sugar very well.