Eating ginger to lower blood sugar is not very reliable. If we want to lower blood sugar, we'd better be honest, improve our diet, cooperate with drugs (or inject insulin) and exercise properly. Many friends may disagree, because they may have seen some information that ginger seems to lower blood sugar. For example, in some animal experiments in Japan, it is found that the effective components in ginger are beneficial to lowering blood sugar, and the spicy components in ginger, such as gingerol, can alleviate the increase of blood sugar. However, it must be clear that such experiments depend on animal experiments. The object of the experiment is mice. In the experiment, the rising speed of blood sugar in mice fed with glucose and extracted gingerol was 65438 000 mg/dl lower than that in mice fed with glucose only.

This experiment can show that ginger has the potential effect of suppressing the increase of blood sugar, but two problems need to be clarified. Animal experiments do not represent the results of Linchuan experiments, and their effects on human bodies are not necessarily the same. In the second experiment, purified gingerol was used. The dosage of purified specific ingredients is completely incomparable with the amount we usually take from food. Therefore, we should treat the efficacy provided by ginger rationally, and don't just plant it as soon as we hear that it can lower blood sugar.

In addition, it is necessary to pour cold water on ginger. It is not suitable for diabetics to eat too much ginger. From the perspective of traditional medicine, ginger is pungent and warm, suitable for sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, suitable for people with stomach cold and intestinal deficiency, and can relieve colds and warm their bodies, but it is not good for patients with heat syndrome. Diabetes patients are mostly "thirst-quenching symptoms". Eating too much ginger will aggravate thirst-heat syndrome and produce unwell symptoms, especially for sugar friends with poor blood sugar control.

Do sugar friends usually eat ginger?

In fact, there are still some benefits. The nutritional value of ginger itself is not low. If eaten properly as a seasoning, it is also good for your health. Ginger is particularly rich in potassium, 100g is close to 300mg. Potassium is one of the main "life elements" of human body, which not only regulates the ion concentration in the body, but also regulates the heart rate and muscle contraction frequency, which can promote the absorption of calcium and prevent osteoporosis.

In addition, the content of magnesium in ginger is also high, and there are a certain amount of calcium, iron, manganese and phosphorus. Ginger can also provide a certain amount of vitamin C, vitamin B and vitamin A, and there are many beneficial substances to supplement. In addition, ginger contains some volatile aromatic essential oil, which is a stimulating smell we smell. In fact, these ingredients are harmless to the human body, can also promote gastric acid secretion, and have the effect of improving appetite; Often used to stop vomiting and warm the stomach.

Ginger is still blindly used as a medicinal material in traditional medicine. Ginger can relieve exterior and disperse cold and warm, and has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", because it is hot in summer, ginger can make us evaporate sweat to achieve the effect of cooling, which is a more natural way to cool down than air conditioning and cold drinks. Of course, more friends are air conditioners, cold drinks and fans. This way is actually easier to gather "cold" on the body surface, and it is easy to catch a cold and get sick in autumn and winter. Eating ginger can help us dispel the cold on the body surface, adjust the temperature and play a role in cooling down. Ginger is also commonly used for colds and colds, and also has the effect of eliminating dampness.