Can diabetics eat pumpkin, and can diabetics eat pumpkin?

When fasting (intake of sugar-free and any sugary food within 8 hours) blood sugar is higher than the normal range, it is called hyperglycemia, fasting blood sugar is normal, and blood sugar is higher than the normal range two hours after a meal, which can also be called hyperglycemia. Diabetics are actually deficient in sugar, and what they lack is simple sugar. Pumpkin has both polysaccharides and egg broth, which should not be eaten. It is recommended to use pure honey, the simple sugars in honey can be absorbed by human cells without being broken down by insulin.

Blood sugar rises within two hours of consuming honey, but it soon drops to normal values. Remember, it must be pure honey, impure honey is not edible.

You can eat it. But it does not have a hypoglycemic function. Theoretically speaking, there is no taboo in diabetes, but it is necessary to control the amount, some foods are easy to control, and some are difficult to control.

Pumpkin has very little sugar content and has a laxative effect, which is suitable for diabetics and is good for blood sugar control.

You can eat a little, not too much! Because pumpkin has a lot of sugar.

1) The effect of pumpkin on blood sugar is inconclusive

Pumpkin, also known as pumpkin, squash or gourd, nest gourd, is the fruit of the Cucurbitaceae plant, mostly produced in summer and autumn. Traditional medicine in China has long recorded that pumpkin has a certain medicinal effect in addition to being used as a daily household food. It is recorded in the history book of traditional Chinese medicine "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica":

Pumpkin is warm, sweet and tasteless, enters the spleen and stomach two meridians, can moisten the lungs and invigorate qi, dissolve phlegm and discharge pus, repel insects and detoxify, treat cough, asthma, pulmonary carbuncles, constipation and other diseases. For example, folk commonly use 30g of pumpkin and stem rice to cook porridge, and adjust a spoonful of brown sugar to treat renal edema. Many scholars at home and abroad are conducting scientific research on pumpkins, but they have different opinions because the results are inconsistent.

Professor Cai Tong of China Agricultural University and others believe that pumpkin has a large amount of pectin which is soluble dietary fiber, which can effectively reduce blood sugar after meals. Pumpkin polysaccharides have hypoglycemic effects; The protein components CTY (cyclopropyl amino acids) and R amino acids in pumpkin promote the secretion of insulin.

Pumpkin is rich in trace elements such as zinc, cobalt, and chromium, which are essential elements for the synthesis of insulin. 100g pumpkin contains water, protein, fat, sugar, dietary fiber, and provides 22 kcal. When mixed with starchy foods, it will increase the viscosity of gastric contents, and regulate the absorption rate of food in the stomach, so that the absorption of carbohydrates will be slowed down, thereby delaying the time of gastric emptying and changing the speed of intestinal peristalsis, so that blood sugar will not rise too quickly after meals.

Professor Lei Shunqun of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and others believe that pumpkin has a high sugar content and a high glycemic index, and eating more pumpkin will not lower blood sugar, and will even increase blood sugar. Some have over-publicized pumpkin, turning pumpkin into a drug for diabetes.

2) It is okay as a food, but it is wrong as a medicine

In fact, there are many varieties of pumpkin, the nutritional composition is very different, the dosage and usage are not standardized, and the results are understandable. However, pumpkin is a nutritious vegetable that is beneficial to the human body. But it is definitely not possible to eat more pumpkin and its products instead of hypoglycemic drugs.

In addition to being effective in the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications, pumpkin is very important for human health because of its rich nutrients, such as containing a variety of vitamins, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, etc. Therefore, diabetics can eat pumpkin. The only thing to note is that "usable" does not mean that more is better, pumpkin itself also contains a higher amount of carbohydrates, and it should still be used in moderation within the total calorie range set daily.

It must be emphasized that it is obviously wrong to lower blood sugar by eating more pumpkin.