A large number of fresh, sweet and delicious fruits are on the market, but for patients with diabetes, fruits contain certain sugar, which may affect the stability of blood glucose. So what fruit does diabetic suit to eat?
Sugar friends eat fruit
1. The premise of eating fruit is that the blood sugar control is ideal.
2. About 200 grams per day, which can be eaten 2-3 times.
3. Eat between meals or one hour before going to bed.
4. If the blood sugar control is not ideal, you can eat some tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables instead of fruits.
5. Choose fruits with low sugar content. Generally speaking, apple, pear, grapefruit and other low sugar content, more suitable for diabetic patients, while bananas, red dates, pineapple and other high sugar content, diabetic patients should not eat.
1. The blood sugar control is ideal, can eat appropriately
When the blood glucose control is ideal, that is, the fasting blood glucose can be controlled below 7.8 mmol / L, the postprandial blood glucose 2 hours can be controlled below 10 mmol / L, and the glycosylated hemoglobin can be controlled below 7.5%, without frequent hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia, the prerequisite for enjoying fruits can be met. If the blood sugar control is not ideal, you can eat tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables as fruits, and then choose fruits when the disease is stable.
2. Sugar friends should pay attention to time when eating fruits
Fruit is usually eaten between meals (such as 10 a.m. or 3 p.m.) or an hour before going to bed, which can avoid excessive carbohydrate intake at one time and overload the pancreas. Generally, it is not recommended to eat fruits immediately before or after meals.
3. Fruits with low sugar content are suitable for sugar friends
The content of carbohydrate in fruits is about 6% - 20%. The fruit with relatively low sugar content and slow speed of increasing blood sugar should be selected. The latter may have some differences for different patients with diabetes, and can be selected according to their own practical experience. Generally speaking, watermelon, apple, pear, orange and kiwi fruit have low sugar content, which is suitable for diabetics, while banana, red jujube, litchi, pineapple and grape have high sugar content, which is not suitable for diabetics.
4. The quantity of fruit does not affect the calories
According to the effect of fruit on blood sugar, you can eat about 200 grams of fruit every day (which can provide about 90 kcal of heat), and you should reduce half of the staple food (25 grams). This is the way of food equivalent exchange, so that the total amount of heat intake per day remains unchanged.
In addition, in accordance with the above four elements to do at the same time, diabetics have to explore their own rules, if you can eat fruit before and after 2 hours to measure blood sugar and urine sugar, to understand whether they can eat this fruit, eat too much will be very helpful.