First of all, there is no direct hypoglycemic food, you think about food can lower blood sugar, that lowered into hypoglycemia how to do?

Of course this is a bit of a lift, let's look at the origin of pumpkin hypoglycemia, research shows that pumpkin polysaccharides extracted from pumpkin is a hypoglycemic active ingredient, which can significantly reduce the blood glucose value of diabetic model mice, and at the same time has a certain hypolipidemic effect. This experiment proved that pumpkin can lower blood sugar, to a certain extent, this claim is correct. However, on the one hand, this is only an animal experiment, on the one hand, we have repeatedly emphasized that the real active ingredients contained in the food, converted to the amount of human body, that is the need to eat a super amount of food may be able to play such a medicinal value.

So let's look at the current routine evaluation of a food's effect on blood sugar. That is the glycemic index, and usually a GI below 55 is known as a low GI food. Foods with a general GI of 40 or less are foods that can be safely consumed by diabetics. You must get a concept clear that low GI just means that it will not cause blood sugar to rise or have little effect on blood sugar, not that this low GI food can lower blood sugar. Pumpkin has a GI of 65-75, and if a diabetic consumes a large amount of it, not only will it not lower blood sugar, but it will even raise blood sugar.

Let's talk about pumpkin again in passing Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin: sweet taste, flat nature. Attributed to the lung, spleen, stomach meridian. It has the effect of detoxification and elimination of swelling, treating lung carbuncle, croup, pain and swelling.

Pumpkin can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa from food irritation, and can promote the healing of ulcer surfaces, so it is more suitable for those who have celiac disease or ulcers stomach disease patients. Pumpkin itself can also promote the secretion of bile, strengthen the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, and help the digestion of food.

Nutritional value of pumpkin: 1, contains protein, pumpkin in immunoactive protein content is relatively high.

2、It contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body.

3, rich in polysaccharides, pumpkin polysaccharides can enhance the body's immune system, so it can regulate the immune system.

4, rich in carotene, and carotene in the human body can be converted to vitamin A, and vitamin A is very important to the human body for the vitamin, can protect the eyesight, promote the growth of epithelial tissue differentiation, and promote the development of bones.

5. Contains vitamin C.

6, pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, consumption of high-fiber foods, the average daily intake of crude fiber up to 35 ~ 40 grams, the incidence of hyperlipidemia and other diseases than the dietary fiber intake of only 4 ~ 5 grams of European and American residents significantly lower. As a result, people's interest in dietary fiber has been reawakened and systematic research has begun. In recent decades, the intake of dietary fiber is significantly lower, the so-called "life is getting better and better, less and less fiber". This has led to some so-called "modern civilization diseases", such as obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, etc., as well as some diseases related to dietary fiber, such as intestinal cancer, constipation, intestinal polyps and other diseases, the incidence of which is increasing day by day.

7, rich in trace elements, especially cobalt, is the highest content of cobalt in all vegetables, and cobalt can promote the body's metabolism, or pancreatic islet cells need minerals, can promote hematopoietic function, promote the synthesis of vitamin B12.

Of course these are theoretical studies, some of the substances or elements contained are minimal, and the GI, the glycemic index, should be consulted especially for its effect on blood sugar.

So there is no such thing as a food that lowers blood sugar, and certainly pumpkin does not lower blood sugar, and it is even said that pumpkin is not a safe food for diabetics, and eating too much of it can raise blood sugar.

[Copyright Dr. Cardiovascular Wang]

Diabetics are becoming more and more common, with the increase of diabetics, our understanding of diabetes has become more and more profound, diabetes (especially diabetic complications) on human health hazards, so that everyone is concerned about their own blood sugar, how to reduce blood sugar has also become a topic of frequent discussion.

Carbohydrates are the main glucose-raising substances in our body, and the pancreas of healthy people can normally secrete insulin to keep the rising blood sugar under control, so the blood sugar fluctuation is small; while diabetic pancreas secretion of insulin function has a problem, if you eat a lot of food, less exercise, glucose-lowering drugs are not eaten in time, the blood glucose will be higher than the normal value of the possibility.

Each food contains different nutrients, for our body will cause elevated blood sugar, just will cause elevated blood sugar how much, elevated blood sugar speed will be different, pumpkin is no exception.Eating pumpkin can also cause a rise in blood sugarBecause, pumpkin also contains sugar, every 100 grams of pumpkin contains 4 grams of carbohydrate. Because, pumpkin also contains sugar, every 100 grams of pumpkin contains 4.5 grams of carbohydrates, in addition, it has a high glycemic index, up to 75, more than most vegetables, fruits, belong to the high GI food.

However, pumpkin is rich in nutrients, after consumption, not only can provide our body with a large number of essential nutrients, to maintain good health; also contains a wealth of dietary fiber, can play a certain delay in postprandial blood glucose, for the control of postprandial blood sugar is also a certain help.

So.Pumpkin can also raise blood sugar, diabetics can also eat some in moderation, you can choose pumpkin instead of part of the staple food, you can also eat some pumpkin dishes, as long as the reasonable combination of food, the same can be a good control of postprandial blood sugar.

Finally, diabetics want to control their blood sugar in two main ways.One is a low-sugar diet that limits sugar intakeSuch as: try to eat less sugar-rich rice, pasta and other staple foods, increase the sugar content of some of the miscellaneous food to replace part of the staple food; do not eat sweets, beverages, to control the amount of daily intake of food and intake of calories;Secondly, it enhances sugar consumption and metabolismIn order to enhance the metabolism of sugar, it is necessary to promote the secretion of insulin through medication or direct injection of insulin, to exercise more, and to drink an appropriate amount of water to promote the metabolism of sugar consumption.

I hope my answer helped you, if you have any questions please leave them in the comment section! More nutritional health and wellness knowledge welcome to my public number.

Pumpkin as the Chinese people very like to eat a kind of melon, can be used as a vegetable to fry, can also be used as dumpling filling, and some like to eat steamed or porridge with some, in short, can be said to be a very common and widely loved by everyone's favorite food.

However, there are a lot of people who don't know what effect pumpkin has on blood sugar? Can diabetics consume pumpkin or not? Is it like what many people say, pumpkin can lower blood sugar, or even cure diabetes? These questions, Dr. Zhang was not clear before, therefore, Dr. Zhang checked the relevant literature, here to give you a brief report.

First of all, to answer this question clearly, pumpkin is not capable of lowering blood sugar, much less treating diabetes. The reason why Dr. Zhang is so sure, because, in all the literature, this is the conclusion. With the support of so many scholars, Dr. Zhang can be very sure.

Let's find out more about what are the ingredients of pumpkin? The ingredients of pumpkin are dietary fiber, cobalt, pectin, sugar, vitamins, calcium, iron, carotene and so on. You cannot see that it contains dietary fiber and necessarily think that it can lower blood sugar, in fact, its sugar content is still very high. The glycemic index of pumpkin is 75, and the amount of sugar is judged clinically according to the glycemic index. If the glycemic index is below 55, diabetics can consume it; if it is 55-75, it should be controlled; above 75 is a high glycemic index food. Therefore, eating more pumpkin will lead to an increase in blood sugar, diabetics should pay more attention to eat less pumpkin.

Let's look at the effect of pumpkin on blood sugar. China's scholars Hou Fang and other research done in this area, the study found that both normal people, or good glycemic control of type 2 diabetic patients, in the consumption of pumpkin 2 hours, there will be an increase in blood glucose levels, type 2 diabetic patients increased more obvious, normal people are slightly elevated. (HOU Fang,YANG Guorong,ZHANG Yourui,XU Xiaoyi. Effect of pumpkin on blood glucose[J]. China Chronic Disease Prevention and Control,2006,14(1):60-60.) In fact, such a study and such a conclusion are supported by most scholars and experts (Bitter gourd and pumpkin as glucose-lowering foods? Misconceptions about diabetic patients' diet[J]. Diabetes Digest,2013,(11):50.)

Therefore, Dr. Zhang here to remind everyone, do not believe those unreliable rumors. Pumpkin can raise blood sugar, more will not cure diabetes, I hope you understand, suffering from diabetes or should be scientific and standardized treatment.

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Pumpkin in the end hypoglycemic or hypoglycemic topic many people are very concerned about, although this topic for many years are talking about, but many friends are still not clear about pumpkin in the end is hypoglycemic or hypoglycemic. First of all, pumpkin is a very good vegetable, it is not only nutritious, but also has a lot of beneficial effects on the human body, pumpkin is rich in starch, carbohydrates, a variety of vitamins, minerals, β-carotene, appropriate consumption of pumpkin is beneficial to the human body is harmless, but the pumpkin due to starch, carbohydrates, high sugar content is also high (because starch, carbohydrates ultimately generate glucose), so, in fact, the Pumpkin is a vegetable with a high glycemic index (GI), and is not suitable for diabetic and hyperglycemic friends.

However, the dietary fiber in pumpkin is relatively rich, and it contains cobalt, pectin and other substances that can smooth blood sugar, therefore, if you eat pumpkin reasonably, it will not cause large fluctuations in blood sugar, but do not eat more. In addition, pumpkin can smooth blood sugar is actually derived from a Japanese legend, a village of people due to eat pumpkin all year round, so the incidence of diabetes without a case, from which they deduced that the pumpkin can prevent diabetes; modern research has also found that a certain extracted substances in the pumpkin can assist in smoothing out the blood sugar, but not the pumpkin itself. Therefore, eating pumpkin is not able to treat high blood sugar drinking diabetes. Eating more pumpkin will only make the blood sugar more unstable.

Diabetes, high blood sugar friends eat pumpkin is not a bad thing, because pumpkin is rich in nutrients, appropriate consumption is also good, if you eat more, pay attention to reduce the portion of the main food, you can also try to choose between two meals. Do not exceed 50~80g at a time, can be divided into several times.

Pumpkin is just a common vegetable. Pumpkin is rich in nutrients, soft texture and sweet flavor, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. There has been a folk saying that eating pumpkin can lower blood sugar.

1, Pumpkin is food not medicine!

First of all, pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, pectin, pumpkin polysaccharides, etc. These substances can slow down the gastric emptying of food, increase the feeling of satiety, and slow down the gastrointestinal absorption of sugars and fats, which is conducive to the control of postprandial blood sugar. From this point of view, eating pumpkin in moderation is helpful for diabetics to control blood sugar, but this does not mean that often eat pumpkin can reduce blood sugar. Be sure to know that pumpkin is a food not a drug!

2, why advocate pumpkin can lower blood sugar?

Because pumpkin calorie is low, every 100g pumpkin contains only 22 calories, fat content is also very low, is low-fat low calorie food, compared with rice and noodles, the same weight of pumpkin to provide the body with a little lower energy. Compared to other foods his glycemic index is a little lower. But after consuming it, it will still be converted into sugar and energy, and still be able to raise blood sugar.

3、How and how much pumpkin do diabetics eat?

Diabetic patients eat pumpkin is best to adopt the way of steaming, cooking, eat less fried, braised or meat stew pumpkin. Eat pumpkin once can not be too much, not more than 200g per day, if the day to eat pumpkin should be equal to reduce the intake of staple food. Many people take pumpkin as a hypoglycemic drug to eat, this is a very dangerous practice. Although the pumpkin is good, but after all is food, do not eat a lot of, more can not replace the hypoglycemic drugs.

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Some animal experiments have demonstrated that the pumpkin polysaccharide component of pumpkin can indeed stimulate pancreatic activity and insulin secretion, which in turn lowers the animals' blood glucose levels. But this has not been confirmed in human trials.

At the same time, pumpkin also has a lot of starch and soluble sugar, which you need to know is some of the blood sugar-raising material components. So, in fact, compared to rice buns and other staple foods, the sugar in pumpkin can be said to be quite, pumpkin can be said to be a kind of medium-high glycemic value food (cooked pumpkin glycemic index of 75).

Therefore, diabetics are best to eat less or not eat pumpkin, and do not listen to rumors to pumpkin as a sugar star dish to eat, should eat glucose-lowering drugs or to eat glucose-lowering drugs, the first blood glucose down to normal values.

If you really want to eat pumpkin, but also concerned about their high blood sugar, then you can choose tender pumpkin, do not just eat old pumpkin. For people with high blood sugar, if you eat pumpkin try to choose to steam, not oil fried, stewed meat and other ways, or eat pumpkin to reduce the intake of staple food. (67)

Eating pumpkin can lower blood sugar claims, has been a long, long time. My father-in-law is a diabetic, before the sufferers, often with pumpkin stew or buns, three or four days a week are eating pumpkin, blood sugar not only did not drop, but rose higher. Later also dare not eat, pumpkin contains dietary fiber and pumpkin polysaccharides, dietary fiber can help control the rate of blood glucose rise after meals, can slow down the rate of food emptying, so that the rate of absorption of sugar to reduce the degree of satiety, while increasing the sense of satiety. Pumpkin polysaccharide this kind of ingredient, in animal experiments confirmed that the extraction of concentrated pumpkin polysaccharide has a significant role in reducing blood sugar. But you have to choose low sugar type pumpkin.

But maybe you forgot, pumpkin itself also contains sugar, is a kind of high glycemic index (G|) food, its value is 75 (75 or more is high GI). The sugar content of pumpkin ranges from 3% to 15%. Especially the sweeter, more doughy old pumpkin, containing sugar are very high, diabetics are not very recommended to eat. If you do eat it, you should reduce your staple food at the same time. Eat a piece of 200g of old pumpkin, you have to eat less than half a bowl of rice (about 50 ~ 80g), but also pay attention to diabetes to eat pumpkin try to eat steamed, do not choose to fry, stewed meat, deep-fried, and do not pull or egg yolk baked way. The important thing is that diabetes eat this pumpkin is best to eat only occasionally eat and eat as a staple food.

Pumpkins also contain a number of beneficial trace minerals, including potassium, magnesium, zinc, chromium and other minerals, as well as vitamins and carotenoids. Pumpkins like Pepe'sThe flavor is relatively light, is not sweet relatively crisp tender pumpkin, its sugar content is not high, and energy is also very low, can be eaten as a dish, for diabetic patients, if you want to eat pumpkin, it is recommended to try to pick the tender pumpkin containing less sugar can be eaten as a dish; recommend a dish to you pumpkin steamed yam, pumpkin and yam washed and cut into cm thick slices. Then a piece of pumpkin a piece of yam arranged, plus wolfberry and jujube together on the pot steamed for 15 minutes, cooked through can be. This is a rice and vegetables steamed pumpkin yam is ready.

The picture is a steamed pumpkin with yam that I made last year for the pumpkin festival, this is a pumpkin yam with sweetened cinnamon, which is not recommended if you are diabetic.

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"Pumpkin hypoglycemic theory" originated in Japan.

The legend that "pumpkin can lower sugar" comes from Japan. It is said that in the early eighties, the Japanese Hokkaido diabetic patients accounted for 5%, but there is a Yubari village but not a diabetic, this report has aroused great interest in the Japanese medical profession.

After in-depth investigation by Japanese medical experts found that this phenomenon is related to the local residents love to eat young pumpkin, after identification, this pumpkin is "naked kernel pumpkin". Eat pumpkin lower blood sugar claims therefore.

Many businesses in China also use this as the "basis", developed a lot of diabetes health food, such as pumpkin powder, pumpkin sugar tea, pumpkin cake, etc., by many diabetics sought after.

Sugar lovers can eat, but can not rely on pumpkin to lower blood sugar

On the pumpkin in the end glycemic or hypoglycemic, Concord Hospital Clinical Nutrition Department Chief Physician Yu Kang proposed the need to dialectical view.

1. Pumpkin has a weak ability to raise blood sugar

On the one hand, pumpkin is low in carbohydrates, with 100 grams of pumpkin containing only 5.3 grams of carbohydrates.

Furthermore, pumpkin is rich in pectin, this soluble fiber and starchy food mix, can delay gastric emptying, slow down the rate of carbohydrate absorption, can delay the arrival of postprandial blood sugar peak.

Therefore, it is perfectly fine for diabetics to eat some pumpkin (no more than 200 grams per day).

2. Pumpkin is also a high GI food

But there's no denying that pumpkin has a fairly high glycemic index (GI).

Generally speaking, a GI below 55 is considered a low GI food; between 55-70 is a medium GI food; and over 70 is a high GI food. Pumpkin has a GI of 75.

So for diabetics, eating too much pumpkin runs the risk of causing a spike in blood sugar.

How to eat pumpkin healthily for sugar lovers?

People with diabetes should eat pumpkin with the following in mind:

1. Do not eat too much at one time. 200 grams per day is appropriate, and if you eat too much on that day, you need to reduce the amount of staple food accordingly.

2. Try to pick young pumpkins that contain less sugar, and eat fewer old pumpkins with high sweetness.

3. Cooking methods can choose to boil porridge or steamed, do not stir-fry, stewed meat or deep-fried, too much fat intake is not conducive to blood sugar control.

Diabetics should recognize that pumpkin is, after all, sugary foods, eat in moderation is beneficial to health care, but after all, it can not replace the formal hypoglycemic drugs, the pumpkin as a hypoglycemic "God Melon", every day a large number of intake is very undesirable, and can not be thought of as a pumpkin can lower blood glucose, on their own, to stop using hypoglycemic drugs.

Dr. Clove is here to answer that question.

Although the rumor of "xx food can lower blood sugar" is spreading on the internet, it is really difficult to lower blood sugar by eating certain food alone. Take pumpkin for example.

Content references are to Dr. Ding's science articles:Can Bitter Melon, Pumpkin and Okra Lower Blood Sugar? An inventory of 3 "pseudo-sugar-lowering foods".

Editor / Lee Bad

Can diabetics eat pumpkin or not, the answer is yes, but the amount should be appropriate! Can pumpkin lower blood sugar, the answer is no, and eating too much will also raise blood sugar!

In fact, in addition to drugs, no energy-containing food can lower blood glucose, they will make blood glucose rise after consumption, only the speed of blood glucose rise is different. Pumpkin glycemic index (GI) is very high, up to 75, more than most vegetables and fruits, so do not believe that eating pumpkin to lower blood sugar, diabetics are not suitable for eating a lot of pumpkin.

As for the folk rumor "pumpkin can lower blood sugar", indeed, pumpkin in the extraction of a number of substances are able to assist in lowering blood sugar, such as pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, there are rich cobalt, pectin, etc., these are conducive to lowering blood sugar, there are a number of glucose-lowering drugs extracted from cobalt in the pumpkin to make glucose-lowering drugs to improve the synthesis of insulin, but this is not the same as eating pumpkin can be lowering the blood sugar. Insulin synthesis, but this is not the same as eating pumpkin can lower sugar.

Diabetics should recognize that pumpkin is, after all, sugary foods, eat in moderation is beneficial to health care, but after all, it can not replace the formal hypoglycemic drugs, the pumpkin as a hypoglycemic "God Melon", every day a large number of intake is very undesirable, and can not be thought of as a pumpkin can lower blood glucose, on their own, to stop using hypoglycemic drugs.

Author: Sun Qiuyan National Public Dietitian Grade II/National Registered Nutrition Technician