The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ninth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine recently conducted a field test on more than 120 diabetic friends, under our strict guidance and testing, each of them ate a standard old Shanghai “moon cake” and measured their blood sugar after eating the moon cake. However, there are some diabetic patients who cannot eat mooncakes, or cannot eat a whole mooncake. Therefore, it depends on your own blood glucose changes to determine, now the economic conditions are good, diabetic friends basically have blood glucose meters at home, you may wish to eat moon cakes before and after their own comparison may be the most useful according to. How to eat mooncakes safely for diabetic patients who basically do not have a blood glucose meter at home? First of all, choose the mooncake appropriately, when buying and selling, make sure to read the ingredients, do not choose those with high sugar and fat content Secondly, the amount should be moderate. Try to eat moon cakes as little as possible, appropriate taste, feel the festive atmosphere on the line. While eating mooncakes, you must reduce the intake of rice and fats, and eat as many mooncakes as possible to eat less rice. Experts stressed that sugar-free mooncakes can not just eat more, because although this type of mooncake did not add cane sugar, but the mooncake within the fat content is still very high, fat contains much higher calories than carbohydrates, and one of the key points to control diabetes is to control calories, and the mooncake itself is made of flour, which carbohydrates can be converted into glucose and lead to increased blood sugar. In addition, holiday dinners should also focus on the principle of appropriate mix of staple foods and side dishes. Some diabetic patients think that they can eat more dishes and less rice, or even eat a lot of dishes and not eat the main food. In fact, this is not the case, meat and stir-fried vegetables containing fat will also be absorbed into sugar, and fat accumulation will aggravate insulin resistance, thereby aggravating the disease; at the same time into the main food too little may also lead to hunger ketosis. In short, diabetics do not mean that they can not eat any mooncakes. For patients whose blood sugar is always well controlled, it is possible to eat mooncakes appropriately, but they should follow the above principles of “how to eat mooncakes safely for diabetics”.