It's okay for diabetics to eat Japanese squash. The bonnet, also known as pumpkin, is a melon vegetable that people often eat, and each hundred grams of pumpkin contains 22kcal, 0.7g of protein, 0.1g of fat, 4.5g of carbohydrate, 0.8g of dietary fiber, 145mg of potassium, 0.8mg of sodium, and is also rich in carotene and other mineral elements. In addition, pumpkin also contains fenugreek alkaloids, adenine, arginine, polypeptide sugar and other components beneficial to human health.

The benefits of pumpkin for diabetics are: ① low calorie value, per 100 grams of pumpkin containing calories only 22kcal, 400-450 grams of pumpkin calorific value with 25 grams of rice calorific value of equal, and therefore more suitable for obese diabetic patients.

2 dietary fiber content. From a numerical point of view, per 100 grams of pumpkin content of dietary fiber is 0.8 grams, does not seem high, if its calories (kcal) dietary fiber (g) and rice in the calorie dietary fiber comparison will find that pumpkin for 1:27.5, and rice in this ratio of 1:494, that is to say, dietary fiber in the pumpkin is the same calorific value of 18 times the rice, this fiber is also the same as other dietary fibers!

Pumpkin has the effect of slowing down the absorption of food sugar substances, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on diabetics.

3 pumpkin in the sodium content is very low, while the potassium content is rich, which is accompanied by high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetics is a rare good food. ④ The rich mineral elements and B-carotene with antioxidant effect in pumpkin are beneficial to prevent diabetic complications. ⑤ Fenugreek alkaloids and polypeptide in pumpkin have the effect of regulating immunity and delaying cell aging in the human body, so they have certain health effects. (6) Even if pumpkin is cooked with a small amount of oil or salt, its flavor will not be affected, so it is a kind of food that is very suitable for diabetic diet. There are many ways to eat pumpkin, such as pumpkin rice, pumpkin cake, steamed pumpkin, boiled pumpkin and so on.

Bad: ① Must follow the principle of diabetic food equivalent exchange portion, accordingly reduce the amount of staple food intake; but should not be long-term pumpkin instead of staple food.

②It is not advisable to eat rice with pumpkin porridge cooking method.

3 pumpkin although therapeutic aid, but after all, can not be used as a drug to treat diabetes, so we advise patients not to pumpkin as a means of treatment of diabetes.

4 Long-term consumption of pumpkin can make the patient carotenemia, manifested in the skin of the whole body, especially the hands, feet, yellow skin, but no other symptoms, stop eating for a period of time will subside on their own.

⑤People with stomach problems should not eat a lot of pumpkin.