Can diabetics eat fruit?

  Many diabetic patients “look forward to fruit”, eat and do not eat are a problem, fruit is generally sweet, there are a small number of fruits containing sugar is also very high, like mangoes and bananas, not only high sugar, but also contains starch. So there are some diabetic patients have a sense of fear of fruit, see fruit as see chronic poison. In fact, it is not necessary to do so, the fruit contains vitamins that the body needs, which cannot be replaced by other foods. As long as you pay attention to the time of eating fruits and control the quantity, diabetic patients can eat the fruits they like, just like normal people.  The best time for diabetic patients to eat fruit?  1, first of all, diabetic patients can eat fruit when blood sugar control is ideal: fasting blood sugar less than 7.8 mmol/L, 2 hours after meals blood sugar less than 10 mmol/L, glycated hemoglobin less than 7.5. no frequent hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia, you can eat some fruit in moderation. If the blood sugar control is not ideal, you can eat tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables as fruits first, and then choose fruits after the condition is stable.  2, and then to choose to eat fruit time generally in the middle of two regular meals. Such as 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m., or an hour before bedtime to eat, which can avoid a one-time intake of too many carbohydrates and overload the pancreas. It is generally not advocated to eat fruits immediately before or after meals.  What fruits are good for diabetic patients?  In the various types of fruit should also be selected, the carbohydrate content of various fruits is about 6% to 20%. You should choose fruits with relatively low sugar content and slow speed of raising blood sugar. In general, watermelon, apples, pears, oranges, kiwis and other low sugar content, more suitable for diabetics, while bananas, dates, lychees, pineapples, grapes and other high sugar content, diabetics should not eat. No matter what kind of fruit you eat, you should control the quantity, which is the key. Generally, it is recommended to consume about 200 grams of fruit every day, while the staple food should be reduced by half a tael (25 grams), which is the food equivalence exchange approach, in order to keep the total daily calorie intake constant.  Diabetic patients should test their blood sugar and urine sugar 2 hours before and after eating fruit, to understand whether they can eat this fruit, diabetic diet, whether it is fruit or staple food, the main thing is still a quantity, calories, sugar content, are controlled within a range, many usually afraid to eat food is actually eaten, the human body needs a balanced intake of nutrition, if you do not eat fruit because of diabetes, perhaps Because of vitamins and lack of other problems.