Pregnant women with gestational diabetes should eat foods with low glycemic index, high dietary fiber content and easy digestion and light taste. Pregnant mothers are advised to eat more vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, green vegetables and celery. Fruits such as grapefruit, kiwi fruit, strawberry and green apple. Choose high-quality protein such as lean meat, milk, fish and so on. The staple food is best to choose steamed bread made of coarse grains such as corn flour, buckwheat flour and oat flour.

No matter what you eat, you need to pay attention to the right amount. Patients with gestational diabetes should eat less and more meals, and 5-6 meals a day are appropriate.

Xiaobian recommends classic gestational diabetes recipes for everyone:

Classic recipes 1

Breakfast: 250g of bean curd, 50g of miscellaneous grains steamed bread and 50g of boiled eggs.

Breakfast: 25 grams of soda crackers.

Lunch: brine shrimp100g, fried cabbage with auricularia auricula190g, shrimp skin and winter melon soup100g, buckwheat noodles100g.

Noon: cucumber juice150g

Dinner: shredded green pepper130g, loofah egg soup100g, celery mixed with dried seaweed110g, and rice (rice and millet)100g.

Later: 220g of milk.

Others: salad oil 25g, salt 4g.

Classic cookbook 2

Breakfast: 220g of milk, 50g of steamed egg soup and 50g of miscellaneous grains steamed bread.

Breakfast: Sliced salted bread.

Lunch: fried amaranth150g, sliced white gourd soup125g, sliced lettuce125g, and rice100g.

Noon: cucumber150g

Dinner: 50g of braised tofu, 0g of steamed fish100g of vegetable dumplings.

Later: tomato150g

Others: salad oil 25g, salt 4g.