After the diagnosis of diabetes, can you still enjoy the freedom to eat sweet potatoes?

This can only be determined according to the patient's specific situation, and each sugar friend's reaction to blood sugar of each food is very likely to be different. As a sugar friend, you should actually find the food that suits you and slowly explore which foods you can't eat and which you can eat.

For example, I am a diabetic. It seems that eating sweet potatoes is an acceptable threat to blood sugar, but if I have another sugar friend, my blood sugar will soar and I can't eat any more. Sugar friends should not follow the trend, step by step, others say you can eat this, others say you can't touch that, so you dare not taste it. You should have your own food information.

The dietary fiber of sweet potato helps to delay the digestion speed of food and the speed of sugar entering blood sugar. However, sweet potatoes do have high starch content and belong to foods with high sugar content. After eating sweet potatoes, the blood sugar reaction fluctuates greatly. Therefore, it is not recommended for diabetics to eat more sweet potatoes.

As it happens, sweet potato is a very controversial food because it is not a food with high sugar content, but it is definitely not a food with low sugar content. For sugar lovers, the boundaries are blurred. Therefore, some people who love sugar can accept the sugar-raising effect of sweet potato, but some people will have more serious blood sugar fluctuations after eating it. However, regardless of whether it has a great impact on blood sugar, sugar friends must take sweet potatoes as their staple food and control the amount they eat.

Sweet potato and other potato foods have high starch content, such as taro, potato, purple potato and yam. These foods are suitable as staple foods to replace flour and rice, such as japonica rice and refined white flour pasta. Compared with these flour and rice foods, potato foods are certainly much more friendly to blood sugar, because they don't need to be carefully processed like flour and rice, losing parts such as wheat bran and pericarp, and retaining rich dietary fiber, which is a component that is conducive to stabilizing blood sugar. Sugar friends can choose to eat about 2 Liang of staple food in one meal, which can be more than half a bowl of miscellaneous grains and beans rice, plus sweet potatoes or other fist-sized potato foods. Don't be greedy.

There are several reasons why different people have different blood sugar reactions when eating sweet potatoes, such as different kinds of sweet potatoes and different cooking methods. There are many kinds of sweet potatoes, such as those with high dietary fiber, which have little effect on blood sugar, but the taste is bad and soft, which will pose a greater threat to blood sugar. Eating sweet potatoes by steaming, boiling and dry baking will not greatly increase the sugar-increasing effect of sweet potatoes, but if sweet potatoes are chopped into mashed potatoes, the sugar-increasing index of sweet potatoes will soar because of the destruction of dietary fiber! In addition, potato chips and shredded sweet potatoes will also greatly increase the sugar-raising effect of sweet potatoes.