If your blood sugar fluctuates a lot, skip the fruit for a while. Stable diabetics can eat fruit in moderation every day, and try to eat fruits with low sugar content and low glycemic index in order not to burden their blood sugar.
Our Diabetes Guidelines recommend eating more vegetables and fruits in moderation, in a variety of types and colors, and support diabetics to eat fruits in moderation.
According to current research evidence, moderate fruit intake can reduce the risk of diabetes complications, so people with diabetes don’t have to “talk about fruit” and eating fruit appropriately every day can do more good than harm.
There are no completely forbidden types of fruit to choose, but there is one thing to keep in mind: tropical fruits such as mangosteen, durian, bananas, and mangoes are generally high in sugar and can be taxing on the blood sugar of people with diabetes when eaten. Epidemiological surveys have confirmed this conclusion.
Clinical observations in Thailand have found that mango cravings become the cause of many people’s uncontrolled blood sugar during the mango season, and when it comes to durian season, the troublemaker becomes durian. The next in line were mangosteen, bananas, pineapple honey and fenugreek.
So, it is not recommended that people with diabetes eat too much tropical fruit. Whenever possible, choose temperate, low glycemic, dark, chewy fruits such as apples, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, and apricots. As recommended by the dietary guidelines, 200 to 350 grams of fruit per day is appropriate. It is best to put it between meals.
Patients with large fluctuations in blood glucose, or those with temporary poor control, should try not to eat fruit first and follow medical advice when their condition is stable.