Pumpkin can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from food irritation and promote the healing of ulcer surface, so it is more suitable for those patients with gastric diseases who have erosion or ulcer themselves. Pumpkin itself can also promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help digestion of food. The calorie per 100g pumpkin is 22kcal, and the sugar content is 4.5g, which is not too much from this point of view, but let's look at the second indicator: the GI value of pumpkin is 75, which belongs to the high glycemic index food, indicating that the sugar in pumpkin can be absorbed quickly after entering the stomach, which leads to large blood sugar fluctuation.

Pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, cobalt, pectin, etc., which are beneficial to lowering blood sugar, and is also considered to be the reason why pumpkin can help stabilize blood sugar in medicine. Some hypoglycemic drugs extract cobalt from pumpkin to make hypoglycemic drugs. Healthy people's islets can secrete insulin normally to control the rising blood sugar, so the blood sugar fluctuates less. However, there is a problem with the insulin secretion function of islet in diabetic patients. If you eat more, exercise less, and take hypoglycemic drugs in time, your blood sugar may be higher than normal.

Blood sugar refers to the glucose contained in blood, which plays an important role in human health. The blood sugar concentration is influenced by diet, which involves two important parameters of food. However, the active ingredients in the pumpkin on the dining table are too low to reach the dosage that can control blood sugar, and the content of active substances in different varieties of pumpkin is also quite different. At present, there is no epidemiological data to verify that pumpkin can control human blood sugar.

The GI of pumpkin is 75, while that of rice is 83, which seems a little similar. It can be said that the GI is a little high, which belongs to the upper limit of the medium GI (55~75). However, pumpkin can also tonify the middle energizer, reduce blood fat, clear away heat and toxic materials, protect gastric mucosa and help digestion. It is suitable for spleen weakness and malnutrition, etc. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, pumpkin belongs to yellow food and has a better effect of invigorating spleen.