In diabetic patients has been circulating such a statement: "Eat more pumpkin can lower blood sugar!" And a lot of people with diabetes have been a believer in this view, growing pumpkins in the diet of consumption, and some even three meals a day eat pumpkin! pumpkin really lower blood sugar do?
Pumpkin hypoglycemic just legend
Relied hypoglycemic do not fly
As a food containing sugar and energy, the overall impact on blood sugar pumpkin is definitely higher, not lower, the role of. However, and other carbohydrate-rich foods (such as rice, flour and other staples) compared to the weak increase in blood sugar, postprandial blood glucose is more stable, soothing. This is mainly due to two factors:
1, the amount of sugar pumpkin, and people think so much. Although some pumpkin taste sweet, but in fact, 100g pumpkin contains only 4.5g of carbohydrates, the rest is water.
2, pumpkin contains a lot of pectin, a soluble fiber, mixed with the starchy foods, will increase the viscosity of gastric contents, delayed gastric emptying is slow carbohydrate absorption, which may delay postprandial School peak.
Therefore, the appropriate amount to eat some pumpkin for diabetic patients have some benefits, but, considering it is after all sugary foods, eat lots of uncontrolled manner pumpkin, or pumpkin and given a free hand out the consumption of regular hypoglycemic agents and insulin, are very wrong.
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