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Can I eat lychees on an empty stomach? Can diabetic eat litchi?

Litchi is the most seasonal fruit in this season, and it is also the favorite of many people. However, many children eat litchi, and then there are all kinds of 'Litchi disease'. What's the matter? How to eat litchi is the most healthy? Can you eat litchi on an empty stomach?

1. Eating litchi on an empty stomach has' poison '?

After eating lychees, we get angry, have oral ulcers, have nosebleeds, have diarrhea and stomach bleeding, etc.. Why? And we were told from childhood that we can't eat lychees on an empty stomach, is it toxic to eat them on an empty stomach?

First, let's look at the nutrition of litchi.

Litchi is rich in nutrients, including glucose, sucrose and fructose, which contain 16.6 grams of carbohydrate per 100 grams of litchi. After eating litchi, the reaction of "getting on fire" is not magical. It can be said that these kinds of candy are making trouble.

Most of our tissues and organs can directly use glucose, and fructose must be transformed into glucose by invertase in the liver, so as to be directly used by the human body.

2. Can eating litchi on an empty stomach reduce blood sugar?

Then someone said that eating litchi on an empty stomach can cause hypoglycemia. Can diabetes patients eat litchi to reduce blood sugar?

Of course not. Hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia are not the same thing at all!

Eating litchi in large quantities can cause hypoglycemia, but the fructose in these litchi will be used by the body later, and the heat generated will not be less, which will inevitably increase the blood sugar. Litchi does not have a hypoglycemic effect, but can not be converted into glucose in time. If a small amount of litchi is eaten, the body still has the ability to convert it into glucose in time, and the blood sugar will certainly rise.

Therefore, eating litchi only has the problem of when to raise blood sugar, and more than 60% of diabetic patients have hyperlipidemia, and eating a large number of fructose will cause hyperlipidemia, resulting in a vicious cycle.

3. How much litchi is suitable?

Generally, adults should eat litchi less than 300 grams per day. It is safer to choose between meals.

For children, it's better to eat no more than 5 litchi, 3-4 at a time, otherwise, eating more easily causes fever.

If diabetes patients want to control blood sugar steady, the amount of litchi consumption should be within 80 grams.

A litchi is about 20 grams

Diabetes patients, 3-5 is appropriate

4. So how should litchi be eaten so as not to 'catch fire'?

In fact, we should remember the following points:

Drinking salt water: people who like litchi but are afraid of dryness and heat can drink more salt water while eating litchi, or 20-30g of raw ground boiled lean meat or pig bone soup, or boiled water with dates, which can prevent burning.

First soak in salt water and freeze it before eating: you can also dip litchi peel into light salt water, and then put it in the refrigerator and eat it after ice. It will not only not catch fire, but also relieve stagnation and increase appetite. If you brew a cup of litchi tea fried with litchi leaves (sun dried), you can also relieve the stagnation and diarrhea caused by eating more litchi.

Take lychee shell Decoction: if you eat too many lychees, you will have abdominal distention and frequent abdominal pain, which is commonly known as' poisoning '. "Poisoning" can be treated with litchi shell decoction, or with a few slices of fresh lemon or a cup of lemon tea. It can also eliminate fullness and relieve pain.