Pasta has a high glycemic index. Pasta is typically a high-calorie food with a high glycemic index, which means that if you have a high blood sugar level, eating this food will cause significant fluctuations in your blood sugar. This is not good for pregnant women's blood sugar control, so pregnant women who have high blood sugar try to a diabetic diet, low glycemic index diet.

In this way, in addition to controlling blood glucose, the most important feature is to reduce the fluctuation of blood glucose, which is more meaningful for the whole process of pregnancy has been the protection of organs. So that for pregnant women with high blood sugar, in addition to figure out the state of her sugar metabolism is pre-diabetic or diabetic, the diet must be very careful to do, pasta and other foods to avoid.

Italian pasta cuisine composition characteristics

Dough, edible dough first appeared when the manufacturing method is the flour dough pressed into a thin paper-like, and then covered in food, put into the oven to cook and eat. Later, people came up with the idea of cutting the dough into long, thin noodles in the form of small pieces or sticks, and the Arabs came up with the practice of air-drying the noodles for storage.

Besides plain pasta, other colorful pastas are made from a mixture of fruits and vegetables, such as saffron pasta, black squid pasta and egg yolk pasta. Dried spaghetti is favored in southern Italy, while fresh spaghetti is more popular in the north. Generally, spaghetti is used as a starter, seafood spaghetti is served with white wine, and those with strong sauces are served with red wine.

Sauces, authentic ingredients, are essential to the good taste of pasta. In addition, the sauce for pasta is also important. Basically, pasta sauces can be divided into red and white sauces. Red sauce is a tomato-based red sauce, while white sauce is a white sauce made of flour, milk and cream, as well as pasta flavored with olive oil and herbs, green sauce and black sauce.

Red sauces are the most commonly seen sauces made primarily from tomatoes. Green sauces are made with basil, pine nuts, and olive oil, and have a more distinctive and intense flavor. White sauces are made with unsalted cream and are mainly used for baked pasta, lasagna and seafood pasta. The black sauce is made from squid ink and is mainly used for seafood pasta such as squid.

The flour used for pasta is different from the flour we use in China, it is a kind of "hard durum wheat", so it will not be cooked for a long time, which is the biggest difference.