Most of the fruits are very sweet and their main component is sugar, such as glucose, fructose and sucrose. If diabetic patients eat improperly, it can raise blood sugar and make the disease recur. So for a long time fruit has been excluded from diabetic food, some people even to the extent of “talk about fruit”. Diabetic patients really can not eat any fruit? Fresh fruit is good for meeting the body’s nutritional needs, preventing atherosclerosis, retinopathy, constipation and so on. Fruits contain more fructose and glucose, but the metabolism of fructose does not require the participation of insulin, and the main component that affects blood sugar is the amount of glucose in fruits. Therefore, for diabetic patients’ diet, fruit is not absolutely “forbidden”, the key is how to eat, according to their own condition scientific and reasonable choice of fruit. If you are a diabetic, before eating fruit, you should know at least two things: first, your current blood sugar control; second, the amount of glucose in the fruit you want to eat. When the overall level of blood sugar is high and poorly controlled, it is feasible to eat less fruit with high sugar content, and this is when tomatoes and cucumbers are used instead of fruit. Tomatoes and cucumbers are low in sugar, with less than 5 grams of sugar per 100 grams of food, tomatoes contain 2.2% sugar, cucumbers contain 1.6% sugar, diabetics can not only eat this instead of fruit, and can get vitamin C, carotene, fiber, minerals, very beneficial to health. For patients with better blood sugar control, it is still possible to eat one or two fruits a day, generally in the amount of about 100 grams a day. If you eat 200 grams of fruit a day, you can reduce the main food by half a tael. When eating fruit, it is best to pick the “green” point, “raw” point, not ripe, so the taste of fruit is also good, but the sugar content will be greatly reduced. Fruit is generally eaten 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 overloading the pancreas with too many carbohydrates at once, preventing hypoglycemia and not a sudden rise in blood sugar levels. It is generally not advocated to eat fruits immediately before or after meals. In the selection of fruits, we should choose fruits with relatively low sugar content and slow speed to raise blood sugar. Plums, watermelons, oranges, lemons, grapes, kiwis, strawberries, etc., which contain less than 10 grams of sugar per 100 grams, can be used by diabetics. Bananas, pomegranates, grapefruit, oranges, apples, pears, lychees, mangoes, etc., which contain 10-20 grams of sugar, should be carefully selected; dates, red fruits, especially dried dates, honey dates, persimmon cake, raisins, dried apricots, cinnamon, etc., which contain more than 20 grams of sugar, are contraindicated. Among them, oranges contain more potassium and are more suitable for patients who inject insulin. As for the speed of blood sugar increase in the body after eating fruits, there may be some differences for different diabetic patients. Each diabetic’s specific situation is different, and the effect of each fruit on blood sugar is also different, so diabetics should also figure out the rules themselves. If you can test your blood sugar and urine sugar 2 hours before and after eating fruit, it will be helpful to know whether you can eat this fruit and whether you eat too much, so that you can eat fruit “in your heart”.