I believe everyone is familiar with this fruit. Apple has been eaten by almost everyone and often appears in our homes. Regarding apples, their first impression is that they are sweet, luscious, tender and juicy, and the sweeter the apple, the more popular it is.

However, not everyone likes sweet apples. There will be some people around us who are worried about the sweetness of apples. Because their blood sugar has been in a high range for a long time, they need to be extra careful about their sugar intake. So there is a question of whether eating apples will affect their health. Confusion that raises their blood sugar.

However, under normal circumstances, there are still many benefits to eating apples. For example, a familiar saying is "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Therefore, you might as well listen to the doctor's answer on what effect eating an apple a day has on blood sugar.

First we need to understand what hyperglycemia is. The normal value of blood sugar is generally between 3.9 and 6.1 mmol/L. Therefore, clinically, any fasting blood sugar higher than 6.1 mmol/L and a blood sugar 2 hours after a meal higher than 7.8 mmol/L can be called hyperglycemia.

Hyperglycemia can lead to glucose metabolism disorders, causing patients to often feel thirsty, polydipsia, polyuria, and fatigue, ultimately leading to abnormalities in the entire metabolic system. Therefore, doctors often recommend that patients with hyperglycemia eat a low-salt, low-fat, and low-sugar diet in their daily lives.

Does that mean you can’t eat apples with high sweetness? Actually not. Although apples are high in sugar, most of these sugars are soluble sugars and are easily absorbed by the body.

Moreover, when patients with high blood sugar eat apples, the peristaltic ability of the stomach will be greatly improved, which will in turn facilitate the absorption of sugar. Therefore, eating an apple a day will not only not cause high blood sugar, but also help us control blood sugar levels in the body and provide energy for the body.

Secondly, although eating an apple is beneficial to blood sugar balance, this does not mean that the more apples the better, we still need to pay special attention to the daily intake of apples.

Because in addition to easily absorbed soluble sugars, apples also contain other sugars. Therefore, if you eat one or two apples, your body can barely absorb it. However, if you eat too much and the sugar content increases, it will not only fail to achieve the expected effect, but will actually increase blood sugar.

In addition, the time to eat apples is also an issue that cannot be ignored. When blood sugar levels are high, it is obviously necessary to reduce sugar intake. Under normal circumstances, blood sugar levels will rise after a meal and reach the highest level within 2 hours, so eating apples before meals is the best choice.

In this way, you can make full use of the nutrients and dietary fiber in apples, speed up gastrointestinal motility, effectively avoid the phenomenon of blood sugar rising after meals, and at the same time, the insulin level in the body can also be at a low level. Normal range will not be affected.

Therefore, after a detailed analysis of the effects of apples, we finally concluded that eating an apple a day has a positive impact on blood sugar and is conducive to the stability of blood sugar.

But at the same time, we cannot ignore the key points that need to be paid attention to when eating apples. In daily life, especially for patients with high blood sugar, try to eat before meals and eat in appropriate amounts. After persisting in this way for a period of time, I believe that our blood sugar problems will be greatly improved and our bodies will become healthier.