Not all diabetics can eat sweet fruits, but only patients whose condition is stable and their blood sugar is basically controlled. Generally speaking, the fasting blood sugar is below 7.8 mmol/L (140mg/dl), and the blood sugar is below10mg/l (180mg/dl) 2 hours after meals. Patients who don't often have hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia can choose fruits with low sugar content and sweet and sour taste under the guidance of nutritionists. For some patients with high blood sugar and unstable condition, only vegetables and fruits with sugar content below 5%, such as strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers, can be selected.

What fruits can I choose?

The basis for diabetics to choose fruits is mainly based on the sugar content and starch content in fruits and the glycemic index of different fruits.

Recommended selection: Fruits with sugar content less than10g per10g, including cucumber, watermelon, orange, grapefruit, lemon, peach, plum, apricot, loquat, pineapple, strawberry, cherry, etc. Such fruits can provide 20-40% per100g.

Careful selection: Fruits with sugar content of11-20g per1-00g include bananas, pomegranates, melons, oranges, apples, pears, lychees, mangoes, etc. Such fruits can provide 50-90 kilocalories per100g.

Not suitable for selection: fruits with sugar content higher than 20g per100g of fruits, including red dates and red fruits, especially dried dates, candied dates, dried persimmons, raisins, dried apricots, longan and preserved fruits, should be forbidden to eat. Fresh fruits with particularly high sugar content, such as red Fuji apples, persimmons, Laiyang pears, Feicheng peaches, cantaloupes and preserved fruits, should be prohibited.

How much is appropriate to eat every day?

Fruit is a part of diabetes diet. The energy produced by fresh fruit per100g is about 20-100kcal. Strictly speaking, how much fruit each patient should eat every day should be calculated by a nutritionist. But in general, patients with stable blood sugar control can eat fresh fruit with low sugar content of about150g every day. If they eat fresh fruit every day,