Can I eat fruit with diabetes? What kind of fruit can I eat? This question is often asked by patients. Many diabetic patients are afraid to eat fruits because they are worried about the sugar content in fruits, which will cause blood sugar to rise. In fact, some fruits can be eaten by diabetics, and fruits, like vegetables, are rich in dietary fiber. The dietary fiber has a certain effect of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, controlling obesity, reducing weight, and can increase the sense of satiety, at the same time, can also keep the bowel movement smooth. In addition, fruits and vegetables contain different vitamins and mineral components, diabetics should consume fruits in moderation to ensure balanced nutrition. In short, diabetic patients can eat a variety of seasonal fruits, but should adhere to the following four basic principles. Shi Suqin, Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Four basic principles for diabetic patients to eat fruits.
1, the time to eat fruit
Fruit is generally eaten as an extra meal, that is, in the middle of two meals (such as 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m.) or an hour before bedtime, which can avoid excessive carbohydrate intake at once and overload the pancreas. It is generally not advocated to eat fruits immediately before or after meals.
2.To eat fruit, your blood sugar concentration should reach the following standards
The standards are: blood sugar control at 8mmol/l-10mmol/l 2 hours after meal, glycosylated hemoglobin control at 7.5% or less, no frequent hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia.
3.The quantity of eating fruits
According to the effect of fruit on blood sugar, about 200 grams of fruit (which can provide about 90 kcal) can be consumed every day, while half a tael (25 grams) of staple food should be reduced, which is the food equivalence exchange approach, in order to keep the total daily calorie intake constant. And each time to eat about 100 grams of fruit is appropriate.
4.Fruit selection
The carbohydrate content of various fruits is 6-20%. Should choose relatively low sugar content and slow to raise blood glucose rate of fruit. Different diabetic patients may have some differences in the sensitivity of fruit sugar, according to their own practical experience to make a choice. Generally speaking, kiwi, strawberries and other low sugar content, more suitable for diabetics, while bananas, dates, lychees, red fruit, ginseng fruit, persimmons and other high sugar content, diabetics should not eat more.
So, what fruits are suitable for diabetic patients to eat?
1, citrus
Taste sweet, sour, cool. To the spleen, stomach, kidney. With thirst, wake up, diuretic effect, suitable for hunger, wasting type diabetes, spleen and stomach cold people should not eat more.
2.Peach
Sweet, sour and warm in nature. It belongs to the spleen, stomach and large intestine meridian. It is suitable for diabetic patients with thirst, constipation and dry intestines.
3.Orange
Sweet and sour in taste, cool in nature. Enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effect of appetizing the stomach and Qi, quenching thirst and moistening the lung, and is suitable for diabetes mellitus with chest and diaphragm stagnation and eruption.
4.Plum
Sweet, sour, flat in nature. It belongs to the liver and kidney meridians. It is suitable for diabetes mellitus with heat in deficiency labor.
5.Pear
Sweet in taste, slightly sour, cool in nature. It belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It has the efficacy of quenching thirst, moistening the lung and removing dryness, clearing heat and phlegm, nourishing blood and generating muscle, and detoxifying wine.
6.Pomegranate
Taste sweet, sour, astringent, warm in nature. It belongs to the lung and large intestine meridians. It has the effect of quenching thirst and killing worms, and is suitable for patients with diabetes mellitus who have a dry throat and thirst.
7.Kiwifruit
Sweet, sour and cold in nature. It belongs to the liver, gall bladder, stomach and lung meridians. It has the effect of regulating the middle of the body, moistening the dryness, relieving heat and relieving irritation, and promoting laxative, and is suitable for people with diabetes mellitus who have jaundice and are distended and full in the abdomen.
8.Apple
It is cool in nature, sweet in taste and slightly sour in some varieties, and has the effect of tonifying the heart and benefiting the qi, promoting the production of body fluid and relieving cough, strengthening the stomach and spleen, removing irritation, relieving summer heat and waking up from alcohol. Because the absorption of sugar in apples is slow and uniform, thus reducing blood sugar, especially after meals, has a good effect on diabetes.
9.Grapefruit
Cold in nature, sweet and sour in taste. It has the effect of lowering gas and eliminating phlegm, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, relieving edema and pain, and promoting pharynx and anti-inflammation. Mainly for the treatment of stomach diseases, food accumulation, chronic cough, phlegm, asthma, sore throat, fever and thirst. According to experimental evidence: grapefruit has an anti-inflammatory effect, its composition is naringin, there are inhibitory effects on viral infections. At the same time, it is believed that grapefruit fresh juice, containing insulin-like ingredients, can lower blood sugar, cardiovascular protection, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and obesity patients should eat often.