Sweet potatoes are tasty and delicious, and are therefore a favorite food for many people, but for diabetics, they are often worried that the sugar content in sweet potatoes is too high, which is not conducive to good blood sugar control, and therefore do not dare to try more. Can diabetics eat sweet potatoes?

In fact, even diabetics can eat sweet potatoes in moderation, but patients should be combined with their own body's actual, reasonable consumption is.

According to research, 100g of sweet potato contains 1.8g of protein, 29.5g of carbohydrates, and 0.2g of fat. it can be seen that if the water in sweet potato is removed, sweet potato is still a class of food with high starch content, and thus diabetic patients should treat it as a staple food in their daily diet.

As a staple food, in comparison, rice and flour staple food compared to sweet potatoes slightly lower energy, but sweet potatoes are richer in vitamins and trace elements, and at the same time its glycemic index is also lower, and has a sense of satiety tends to be stronger, you can avoid excessive consumption. So clinical diabetic patients, if you can replace part of the sweet potato rice and noodles staple food, then to a certain extent more conducive to the control of blood glucose in their bodies.

It is generally recommended that patients to sweet potatoes, or to pay attention to control in a more reasonable range, it is best to be able to at the same time with a more appropriate protein foods and vegetables, in order to better help its body in the postprandial blood glucose control, to protect the health of the body.

Instructor: Ren Zhengxin, Attending Physician, Department of Family Medicine, Zhangye People's Hospital Affiliated to Hexi College.

Specialties: 21 years of clinical work in general medicine, the scope of treatment includes diabetes, coronary heart disease, common diseases of women and children, as well as comprehensive analysis and management of daily physical examination.

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"Sweet potatoes are a bit of an exaggeration, but they are indeed an affordable and nutritious grain.

Sweet potatoes have not existed in China for a long time, since the Wanli period of the Great Ming Dynasty when they were introduced from abroad, they have a history of more than 400 years, and have become a household name and a favorite food of the public.

When my mother was a child, materials were scarce, refined rice and white flour were rare items, and many families relied on sweet potatoes to fill their bellies, and some even regarded them as life-saving food.

Sweet potatoes not only have a soft texture, sweet flavor, satiety effect is also very obvious, can provide our body with the necessary energy. And sweet potatoes are inexpensive, can be said to be very cost-effective food.

So can my diabetic friends eat sweet potatoes? Let's take a look at what its nutrients are.

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Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, began to gradually market in late summer and early fall. It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that sweet potatoes have the following characteristicsNourishing weakness, benefiting vital energy, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yin.The efficacy of the

Key nutrients in sweet potatoes:

1,carbohydrates。Carbon hydrate in sweet potato is mainly dietary fiber, about 15g/100g, in addition to starch, every 100g sweet potato contains about 5g starch. It is because sweet potato is rich in dietary fiber, so has thePromote gastrointestinal peristalsisThe role of the

2,Lower in protein and fat。

3,mineral, esp. dietary mineral。Sweet potatoes contain a variety of minerals such as calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, etc., of which the potassium content is about 16mg/100g. potassium isMaintaining normal body metabolismIndispensable micronutrient forlowering of blood pressureThere is also a positive contribution.

4,vitamins。Sweet potatoes contain many vitamins, such as carotenoids and vitamin C. And compared to cereals, theSweet potatoes contain 3-6 times more vitamins than cereals。

5,Cellulose and pectin。Sweet potatoes also contain a large number of not easily destroyed by digestive enzymes of cellulose and pectin, these cellulose and pectin can stimulate the secretion of digestive juices and gastrointestinal peristalsis.digestive aid。

So can sugar lovers eat sweet potatoes?

The answer is yes.Diabetics can eat sweet potatoesBut be sure tocontrol volumeSugar lovers who have difficulty controlling their blood sugar will need toEat carefully and sparingly。

The effect of a food on the body's blood sugar is mainly reflected by the "glycemic index", which we call "GI".

Raw sweet potatoes have a glycemic index of 54, which is a low GI food, although cooked sweet potatoes have a GI of 76.7, which is a high GI food and has a greater impact on blood sugar.

So when sugar lovers consume sweet potatoes, they must not eat too much, they canServe with other staplesThe increase in food diversity alsoReducing the effect of sweet potatoes on blood sugar。

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Diabetic patients can eat sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes not only has a good nutritional value, there are good therapeutic effect, for diabetic patients, moderate consumption of some sweet potatoes not only will not affect the condition, and even to a certain extent to help patients to regulate blood sugar levels!

First of all, every one hundred grams of sweet potato edible part of the calories contained in 102 kcal, only equivalent to the same weight of white bread 50%, that is, in the case of caloric demand remains unchanged, we can eat 4 two sweet potatoes in place of 2 two buns, its sense of satiety significantly increased;

In addition, our absorption of food "sugar" is carried out through the intestine, and sweet potato contains a large number of insoluble dietary fiber, their presence slows down the gastric emptying time, so that the amount of food entering the intestine per unit of time is reduced, which makes the intestinal absorption rate of "sugar" become smooth; in addition, these fibers can also stimulate intestinal peristalsis to accelerate the excretion of internal food residues, so that part of the not-yet-absorbed food residues will be excreted in a much smoother manner. In addition, these fibers can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, accelerate the excretion of internal food residues, so that part of the unabsorbed "sugar" is lost, reducing the intestinal tract to food in the "sugar". "Sugar" in the intestines to reduce the degree of absorption, and thus achieve the purpose of regulating blood sugar!

Secondly, the therapeutic effect of sweet potato is also effective for diabetic patients. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that sweet potato can replenish the deficiency and benefit the qi, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and replenish the kidney and yin; the Lu Chuan Materia Medica says that sweet potatoes can dispel heat, quench thirst, and promote the production of fluids; this is very suitable for diabetic patients who have become more and more weakened due to the serious depletion of the ego, especially because of the symptoms of yin deficiency and fire caused by thirst, which also has a good therapeutic effect! This is very suitable for diabetic patients who are becoming weaker due to severe self-depletion, especially because of "yin deficiency" leading to "fire" symptoms such as thirst, and also has a good therapeutic effect!

Although sweet potatoes are good, it is important to pay attention to the way they are cooked and eaten, as only the right way will not lead to excessive fluctuations in blood sugar levels:

1, try to take steamed or boiled way of cooking sweet potato, because the more "sticky" food "sugar" absorption will be more difficult;

2, try not to eat too hot sweet potatoes, because the higher the food temperature, the higher the glycemic index will be;

3, as little as possible to eat sweet potato flour, because sweet potato flour in the fiber are crushed, lost the above said "regulating gastrointestinal digestion and absorption" ability!

The above is purely personal and for reference only!

Sweet potatoes are indeed a very good food. In times of poor living conditions, sweet potatoes were used as a staple food, and nowadays, sweet potatoes are even used as a health food.

To control blood sugar, diabetics must control their diet, so can you eat sweet potatoes?

Of course you can eat! In fact, for diabetics the important thing is not what you can and can't eat, the key is how to eat and how much to eat.

If a diabetic eats nothing and avoids everything, then where does nutrition come from? Then what fun is there in life.

The advantages and disadvantages of sweet potatoes, for example, are as follows:

1. Containing more fiber: eating sweet potatoes, because they contain more fiber, you can lubricate the intestinal tract, laxative, reduce the absorption of toxins.

2. Containing numerous vitamins and trace elements: eating sweet potatoes can supplement the human body with essential amino acids and trace elements.

3. Containing much starch: Containing much starch means containing more carbohydrates, and excessive intake will increase blood sugar.

So how do you eat it?

1. Choose varieties: choose the sweet potato varieties that contain less sugar and starch, choose small sweet potatoes, and control the amount of each meal so as to prevent blood sugar from rising too high.

2. Control the amount of food when eating: each meal should not be overfed, too much, any food is the same.

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First of all, diabetics do not have so many contraindications, in addition to artificially refined various kinds of added sugar, sugary drinks, honey, white rice white bread and other white staples, most of the food diabetics can eat. The reason why some diabetics eat sweet potatoes high blood sugar, because there is no sweet potatoes as a staple food to eat, after eating a ration of staple food, and then eat a relatively large number of sweet potatoes before the problem of elevated blood sugar.

Diabetics must know that sweet potatoes are not vegetables and are staple foods like rice and noodles. The main components of sweet potatoes are carbohydrates and dietary fiber. 100 grams of sweet potatoes contain 23.1 grams of carbohydrates and 102 kilocalories, while 100 grams of rice contain 77.2 grams of carbohydrates and 347 kilocalories. This shows that compared with rice, sweet potatoes are a very low carbohydrate content and calorie staple food. However, although the carbohydrate content of sweet potatoes is low, but the cooked sweet potato glycemic index is 77, belonging to the high glycemic index food, so diabetics in the consumption of sweet potatoes, pay attention to the amount of food, eat only 100 grams of sweet potatoes can be. Meals with 100 grams of cooked weight of steamed sweet potato instead of about 1 two cooked rice or 1 two steamed bread, the rest of the quantitative staple food or eat mixed grain rice or whole wheat steamed bread, corn cakes and other mixed grain staple food.

Diabetics should also be careful not to eat baked sweet potatoes, fried sweet potato fries and other sweet potato foods that are highly starch-muddled and contain a lot of oil.

One last extra note, the claim that sweet potatoes are better than ginseng is not true. Sweet potatoes are food through and through, a carbohydrate-containing staple. Ginseng is a herb, the main components are ginsenosides and polysaccharides. In the book "Chinese functional food ingredients" ginseng belongs to the health food, there is a certain effect of treatment of disease. In the studies on the therapeutic effect of ginseng, the level of evidence is relatively high, the effect of ginseng on blood glucose has both the effect of lowering blood glucose and elevating blood glucose, and the conclusion is that ginseng's effect on lowering blood glucose for diabetic patients is not clear. Moreover, for diabetics, eating the right three meals is the main dietary approach to managing blood sugar, and herbs or certain dietary supplements are not recommended for diabetics to take freely.

Author: Sun Yuhong / Registered Nutrition Technician DTR, Chinese Nutrition Society / Participant of Wang Xingguo Nutritional Special Training Course No.5, Participant of Popular Science Writing Course No.3 / Author of Headline No.: "Xiao Dingdang Parenting".

Hello, thank you for inviting your question. Diabetics can eat sweet potatoes.

Foods that grow in the earth, including yams, groundnuts, carrots, and lotus roots, are all rich in nutrients and are good for our health when consumed in moderation over a long period of time. However, they have a common problem of being rich in carbohydrates. This is the reason why many doctors or dietitians suggest that sugar lovers should eat less of them.

However, it is important to realize that these nutritious foods are also very important for the body of sugar lovers, and it is indeed a pity not to eat them, and a good way of consuming them will solve the problem that bothers everyone.

For the above ingredients with high starch content, we can take these foods to partially replace the staple food. We always emphasize that sugar lovers should eat more coarse grains, because coarse grains and beans are rich in vitamins, minerals and high in dietary fiber, using coarse grains to partially replace refined rice and fine noodles is very helpful for sugar lovers to stabilize blood sugar. In fact, the above starchy vegetables and potatoes, also rich in dietary fiber, that is to say, their calories compared to refined rice fine noodles for lower, and less impact on blood sugar.

So, the goodness of any food is also relative. Although these foods have a greater impact on blood sugar compared to protein-based foods, starchy foods are also an essential part of our daily diet.

Finally, we also need to be careful about how much of the above foods we eat:

Although the above food is good, after all, compared to vegetables, calories are higher, so when you eat or need to control the amount of intake, a day to control about 50-75 grams is possible.

In summary, the food inside the ground is nutritious, sugar lovers can eat, but in the food you eat need to reduce the amount of staple food in a meal, control the whole day's intake of no more than 75 grams.

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There are several varieties of sweet potatoes, and diabetics are advised to eat varieties with less sugar and to avoid eating rice and pasta after eating sweet potatoes!

Diabetics should always eat sweet potatoes with vegetables to minimize the negative effects of the sugar in sweet potatoes on diabetes!

Sweet potato is nutritious, but has two sides, for diabetics, on the one hand, high sugar content, be careful to cope with, on the one hand, the sweet potato in the dietary fiber and other can lower sugar.

Therefore, diabetics should pay attention to the method of eating, such as eating boiled sweet potatoes and so on (boiled sweet potatoes part of the sugar can be analyzed into the water) as long as the method is appropriate, eating a small amount of sweet potatoes is not a big problem!

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Sweet potato nutritional value is indeed not low, but said it "race ginseng" may still be a little over the top, sweet potato and ginseng can not be compared, a common food, a medicine and food, efficacy and nutritional value are different; diabetic patients can indeed eat sweet potato, but also the same is not how much you want to eat how much to eat, the amount of intake or should be strictly controlled. The intake should be strictly controlled, and not because of a higher nutritional value of a food, it feels as if what crowd can eat.

Sweet potato is a kind of potato food, potato food is basically high carbohydrate food, their carbohydrate proportion is about 20~50%, most of them can be eaten as staple food, - glycemic rate is also generally not low, especially sweet potato, sweet potato's glycemic index (a measure of the rate of food per unit of time to raise blood glucose) is 75, belongs to the high glycemic index food, the impact on blood glucose is also large The impact on blood glucose is also greater. If sugar lovers eat sweet potato, need to eat more scientific, should also control the amount.

Because sweet potatoes have a relatively high proportion of carbohydrates, it is a good choice for sweet potatoes as a staple food instead of rice, steamed bread, noodles and other common "fine grains" in daily life. We usually eat most of the staple food is after fine processing of food, for example, in addition to impurity work is very fine rice, we can find nothing gluten, there is no dust, and can even eat without panning, but which the loss of a large number of gluten components, dietary fiber and vitamin B loss of more serious; such as refined white wheat flour, powder is more delicate, to make the pasta more fluffy, these staple food is more conducive to being Digestion and absorption, taste is very good, but at the same time their carbohydrates are also more easily broken down into glucose is absorbed, the impact on blood sugar is greater, such as white rice glycemic rate of 83, white steamed bread and even higher, if made into a white rice porridge, the rate of glycemic rate of 90 or more. Comparatively speaking, although sweet potato glycemic index is also higher, but then how than also still less, the impact on blood sugar will be more able to some small. If as a staple food, appropriate to eat, in fact, for sugar lovers is also a good choice.

In fact, sugar lovers can also use other foods to replace staple food, such as fine grains in the addition of coarse grains, mixed beans mixed, made of coarse grains, mixed grain rice, pasta can be used coarse grains powder, mixed grain flour, etc. made, in addition, in addition to potatoes, starchy fruits and vegetables, nuts can be used instead of staple food, such as corn, pumpkin, chestnuts, etc.; potatoes there are in fact a better choice of food than sweet potatoes, such as potatoes, yams, and their glycemic The index is also lower, the proportion of carbohydrates is also less, the impact on blood sugar will be smaller. Sweet potatoes are mostly steamed, boiled and baked, and sugar lovers should never use deep-fried, plucked, etc. to do, which will improve the sweet potato fat, sugar, and have a greater impact on blood sugar. The impact on blood sugar is also different for each person, from person to person, some friends eat sweet potatoes may not have such a big impact on blood sugar, then as a staple food, appropriate consumption, if there are friends eating sweet potatoes blood sugar reaction is larger, then we can use potatoes, yams and other food with a lower glycemic rate to try to replace the staple food.

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Sweet potato is indeed a good nutritional value of food, and even have "race ginseng" said, diabetic patients can eat sweet potatoes, but sweet potatoes are always high in sugar content of food, sugar lovers eat is also not advisable to eat more. Sugar friends in the end can eat sweet potatoes are often hotly debated, many friends believe that can not be eaten, there are many friends believe that you can eat, sugar friends can indeed eat sweet potatoes, but why eat sweet potatoes blood sugar soared so fast, and even long-term impact on blood sugar, this is because of the way to eat may be out of the question. So for diabetics, sweet potatoes in the end how should you eat?

The first thing is, choose when and how to eat it. We'd better come to eat sweet potatoes in three meals, eat sweet potatoes as the main food. For sugar lovers, sweet potatoes are not suitable as a snack between meals, but also eat a lot of sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes are high in carbohydrates, and rice is almost the same, if you eat too much, it is certainly affecting blood sugar, we try to eat sweet potatoes in the three meals. Because of the high carbohydrate content of sweet potatoes, for the amount of staple food needs to be strictly controlled for the sugar lovers, and then eat some additional high-carbon food is not friendly to blood sugar, so available sweet potatoes instead of staple food to eat. Sweet potatoes instead of staple food to eat may still be a good choice, sweet potatoes glycemic index (food unit time rate of blood glucose) is 75 or so, and daily we eat white rice, white bread compared to some of the lower, white rice is about 83, white bread is about 90, because sweet potatoes are less processed, the dietary fiber retained more, so it helps to inhibit the rate of increase in blood glucose, relative to fine grains, it is more beneficial to It is more favorable to stabilize blood sugar compared to fine grains.

Secondly, we should pay attention to the intake of sweet potatoes in a meal. A miserable heavy sweet potatoes as a staple food, the recommended intake is no more than two (fist size) sweet potatoes. Dietary guidelines daily recommended intake of staple foods is 450~600g, which contains 50~100g cereal food, 50~150g potato food, allocated to a meal is about 200g, cereal about 30g, potato about 40g, that is, like a small bowl of mixed grain rice plus half a sweet potato, or is the portion of two sweet potatoes. Many friends think that sweet potatoes seem to eat as if they are good for blood sugar, and often eating too much of them may only clam up blood sugar.

Finally, we should pay attention to the cooking method of sweet potato. Sweet potatoes when steamed, boiled, dry baked way to eat, not suitable for deep-fried, plucked, braised, barbecue, sugar friends should avoid some of the oil more than enough sugar cooking methods, in addition, recommended sweet potatoes to keep as is to eat, do not chopped into a puree or steamed excessively soft, which will soften or destroy the dietary fiber, reducing the ability of sweet potatoes to smooth blood sugar. Many friends also like to eat dried sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes are not suitable for more food, they are small volume of water dissipation, high glycemic load, easy to eat more, and faster glycemic.