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Can diabetics eat apples? Are apples bad for them or can they help regulate blood pressure?

Can diabetics eat apples? Are apples bad for them or can they help regulate blood pressure?

Apples are one of the more suitable fruits for diabetics, and there are many benefits for diabetics to eat apples regularly.

Apples contain sugars, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, carotene, malic acid, iron, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, selenium and other nutrients. Polyphenols and flavonoids in apples can reduce the incidence of lung cancer and prevent lead poisoning; fruit acids and vitamins in apples can make people's skin delicate and moisturized, and help delay the appearance of age spots.

For diabetics, chromium contained in apples can improve insulin sensitivity in diabetics; vitamin C and malic acid, which are rich in apples, can stabilize blood sugar and prevent and assist in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Try not to peel apples when you eat them, because most of the vitamins and pectin and other components in apples are in the near-skin and near-peel parts.

Apples are rich in potassium, which can combine with excess sodium salts in the body and make them excreted from the body, thus having the effect of lowering blood pressure. In addition, apples are rich in dietary fiber, which can remove excess cholesterol from the blood.

Although apples are more suitable for diabetics to eat, but not all diabetics can eat. If the blood sugar control is not good, such as fasting more than 8, two hours after the meal more than 10, is not recommended to eat fruit, eat fruit to establish in the blood sugar control stable premise, preferably between meals as a meal to eat. When eating apples, it is best to chew and swallow slowly, this does not help digestion and absorption, but also to reduce the human body disease has certain benefits.

In addition to apples, fruits like grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, kiwis, cherries, strawberries, hawthorns, guavas, papayas, mulberries and so on are also more suitable for diabetics. All in all, the principle of eating fruits is to try to choose the ones with low sugar content and stagger them with the time of regular meals.

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Diabetics can eat apples, and the benefits of proper consumption outweigh the disadvantages, but eating apples has little to do with regulating blood pressure.

Apple taste is still quite sweet, although compared to pure sweet fruit, such as bananas, peaches and other food for the acidity may be thicker, but the sweetness of the apple is enough to let a lot of high blood sugar, diabetic patients hand pinched sweat, such a sweet fruit we sugar friends can eat it? In fact, sugar friends do not have to deliberately avoid a little fruit do not eat, appropriate to eat some fruit is actually no problem, fruit, although sugar, but fruit is generally rich in water, can reduce the glycemic load of the fruit, appropriate to eat a little on the impact of blood glucose is small, fruit is also rich in dietary fiber, Ou Zhuhai inhibit the rate of absorption of sugar, on the smooth blood glucose is helpful as long as the appropriate consumption or ok. Recommended for sugar lovers to eat fruit one-time can be controlled within 200g, the best daily no more than 400g.



Apples also have a low glycemic index. Glycemic index is used to measure the rate of increase of blood glucose per unit of time, the higher the glycemic index, the less suitable for sugar lovers to eat this kind of food, the lower the more suitable, if the food higher than 55, not very suitable for sugar lovers to eat, and apples have a lower glycemic index, only 30 or so, is very suitable for sugar lovers to eat the food. Other fruits that are more suitable for sugar lovers, with lower glycemic index and lower total sugar content are: pears, kiwi, grapefruit, strawberries and saints fruit. However, be careful to avoid fruits with higher glycemic index and higher total sugar content, such as lychee, durian, cinnamon, pineapple, hawthorn, prunes, melons, etc.

Apple is actually a kind of nutritional value is not bad fruit, mineral species is relatively rich, of which potassium is the most prominent, suitable for patients with high blood pressure, because potassium helps to promote the metabolism of sodium, sodium is generally obtained from heavy, high salt content of food, sodium ions are too high can be caused by the extravascular osmotic pressure, blood volume increase, induced hypertension, and potassium helps to promote the metabolism of sodium elements, can Help prevent hypertension, with does not mean that the apple can lower blood pressure, and the effect of prevention is not very significant. Apples are rich in a variety of vitamins, daily appropriate to eat some fruit for diabetic patients is absolutely more good than bad.



But although apples are suitable for diabetics, but pay attention to the way the fruit is consumed, it is best to consume it fresh, do not use juice, dried fruit to consume, it will substantially increase the speed of glucose rise in the water valley even read. Fruit is best consumed between meals or after exercise, when blood sugar is lower, avoid consuming after meals, after meals, the rate of glycemic is already faster, if you come back to the fruit such a faster rate of glycemic food, that will inevitably make the blood sugar rise more serious.

Diabetics can eat anything, it's just a matter of how much.

Apples contain many vitamins, minerals, anthocyanins and dietary fiber.

Here, I would like to focus on the following points:

1,Apples are rich in dietary fiber.Appropriate increase in dietary fiber intake can reduce LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein) value, the study pointed out that the daily intake of 5-10g of water-soluble dietary fiber, can reduce 5% LDL-C. And apples per 100 grams of 1.11 grams of dietary fiber (content is relatively high).

Juicing is not recommended for apples here. Fruits lose a lot of vitamins and dietary fiber in the process of juicing, and to a certain extent it can be said that juice is sugar water.

If you have bad teeth and can't chew apples, you can scrape them with a spoon, which also promotes dietary fiber intake.

2,Apples are also high in anthocyanins:The results of the study by Wedick et al. showed that consuming anthocyanin-rich foods, specifically more than two servings of blueberries and more than five servings of apples per week, reduced the risk of diabetes by 23% compared to consuming less than one serving of blueberries and apples per week.

3. Every 100 grams of apple contains 13.5 grams of carbohydrates (also known as "sugar" in the mouth of sugar lovers), with medium carbohydrate content. So how do sugar lovers add apples to their meals according to their blood sugar?

(1) Blood glucose is below 3.9 mmol/L. It is recommended to eat foods that rapidly raise the sugar level:Sugar cubes, fruit juices, honey water, etc. Correcting hypoglycemia with apples is not recommended because the sugar rise is slower than with these foods such as sugar cubes, fruit juices, honey, etc., and the hypoglycemia will then take relatively longer and cause relatively more damage.

Once your blood sugar has risen to within the normal range, add apples to your meal according to the following scheme.

(2) For blood glucose of 4-5.6 mmol/L, it is recommended to add 100 grams of apples (half of an apple the size of an adult woman's fist).

(3) With blood glucose higher than 5.6 mmol/L, the addition of apples is not recommended.

It is important to note that although fruits are good, they cannot replace the role of vegetables and should be consumed in moderation.It is recommended that 100-200 grams per day is sufficient.

In case of insulin-treated sugar users, it is recommended that you can eat more and more depending on your carbohydrate factor.

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The above answer is provided by Ms. Song Mingyue, a registered dietitian of MicroSugar

Sugar lovers are allowed to eat one apple a day, not too many.Eating apples doesn't help regulate blood sugar, but it's still good for you.

I. Properties related to apples

Let's take a look at the chart below:

Apples have 54 calories, 13.3 sugars, 36 glycemic index and 4.9 glycemic load per 100g of apples. As you can see, apples are high sugar content fruits, but does that mean they can't be eaten?

It's not true that apples have a high glycemic index and glycemic load, except for their high sugar content, so we can eat them, we just have to be careful with the amount. How much to eat, we also have to take the glycemic load as a basis.


A glycemic load below 10 is a low glycemic load; above 20, a high glycemic load; and in the middle, a medium glycemic load.

The glycemic load per 100g of apples was 4.9.So if we consume 200g, the glycemic load is 4.9*2=9.8; still low load; if we consume 300g, the glycemic load is 4.9*3=14.7, medium load.

The weight of an apple, about 150~300g, if from the point of view of blood sugar safety, eating 200g of apples, certainly no problem. If you eat 300g, then you should pay attention to postprandial exercise. Therefore, it is feasible for sugar lovers to eat an apple every day.


Of course, consuming this high-sugar fruit presupposes that theBlood sugar has been more stable recently.E.g., fasting below 7.0 mmol/L; postprandial within 10.0 mmol/L.Blood sugar is often high, so don't eat apples for a while.

Second, the benefits of consuming apples for sugar lovers

There is a saying: an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

The reason for this is that apples are rich in nutrients within them, which are very helpful for human health. However, there is no sugar-lowering effect. It should be clear from reading the above analysis that eating apples is definitely sugar-boosting.

As for the specific benefits of apples for the human body, it is still related to the nutrients it contains, as shown below:

① rich in dietary fiber, can promote intestinal peristalsis, discharge the intestinal tract inside the hangover and toxins, is conducive to good health.

② Rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, as well as B vitamins, has a certain whitening effect.

③Rich in potassium, helpful in combating high blood pressure

Overall, eating an apple a day for sugar lovers has little effect on blood sugar. And as apples are rich in nutrients, eating one a day can also bring a lot of benefits to the human body.


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Diabetics are allowed to eat apples. I've been diabetic for 30 years and I eat apples 3-4 times a week, all year round.

I have gone through a process of daring to eat apples. When a cousin of mine had breast cancer surgery at age 42, she developed diabetes a week after the surgery, and she worked in a Beijing winery and ate grapes and apples. I was 28 years old when I found out about diabetes, I was unusually nervous, and I was so strict with myself that I would never eat fruit. Watching my aunt eat indiscriminately, I felt that was irresponsible for my health.

Four years after I found out about my diabetes, I started taking insulin, bought a blood glucose meter, and knew how to measure my blood glucose before I dared to eat apples, and monitor the changes in my blood glucose for half an hour, one hour, and two hours after eating them, with a special book to keep track of the results of the many tests, I knew that apples were okay to eat.


However, for diabetics, the level of blood sugar is not only related to the food they eat, but also to sleep, mood, fatigue and many other factors, when to eat apples, how much to eat the amount of time, will vary from person to person and from time to time.

Eating apples is not recommended when you have unstable blood sugar and high blood sugar, wait until your blood sugar is under control and then eat apples, happy and joyful.

Thanks for the invite!

Diabetes mellitus is mostly due to qualitative and quantitative changes in insulin secretion by the pancreas and induces insensitivity of cell membranes to insulin and a decline in the function of regulating blood glucose, which will lead to diabetes mellitus and diabetes mellitus complications if not intervened in a timely manner to regulate the disease.

Apple as a fruit, diabetics can eat in moderation, of course, blood sugar is extremely unstable people need to stabilize blood sugar before eating fruit, of course, moderation is still the most important, diabetic dietary regimen should still be based on the control of total energy, so in fact, anything can be eaten, but anything should control the amount of intake.

Can apples regulate blood pressure? For chronic diseases, although diet is crucial, but do not believe that dietary therapy can not use drugs, diabetes, hypertension are required to take medication for life, improve lifestyle (to a balanced diet) at the same time it is important to use medication under the guidance of a doctor, so as to avoid complications, blindly do not use the drug is very harmful.

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