So-called sugar-free foods refer to foods that have no additional sucrose added, with various sweeteners such as xylitol, sweeteners, and aspartame. The most important feature of these sugar-free sweeteners is that they are sweet, but do not produce calories.
The most common sugar-free foods on the market today are a variety of sugar-free cookies and sugar-free snacks, which have no additional cane sugar but are made from flour, which contains about 80% starch, a polysaccharide that is completely digested in the body and absorbed by the body as glucose.
So, in a sense, sugar-free foods are not really sugar-free, and these foods are often processed with more fat to increase the taste of the food, usually up to 30% fat, which is still quite high. The same flour made steamed buns, the fat content is only about 1 percent.
Many people think that these sugar-free foods do not contain sugar, so people with diabetes can just eat them, and because of this, they often have poor blood sugar control.
Remember, sugar-free food means there is no extra cane sugar added, but it is made of flour itself, and people with diabetes can eat it, but they need to count the amount of these sugar-free foods as part of their daily staple food, for example, the daily staple food ration is five taels, so if you eat one or two sugar-free cookies today, you can only eat four taels of your staple food today.