As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival arrives, the moon cakes are the most popular on the market, which is undoubtedly very painful for some friends with high blood sugar who like to eat moon cakes. Because the fillings of moon cakes are mostly sweet, including fruit stuffing, lotus paste stuffing and mayonnaise, all of which are particularly sweet without exception. In the market, there are some sugar-free moon cakes for people with blood sugar. Many people say that this kind of moon cake actually contains sugar.
Because the sugar-free is only for sucrose, the raw material of mooncake itself is starch, which will become sugar after digestion, and there are syrup, maltose, xylitol and other materials in it. So is there any sugar in the moon cake? In fact, the definition of sugar-free is for monosaccharides and disaccharides, and the raw starch mentioned above is actually not sugar. Although this part of starch will turn into glucose after we eat moon cakes, its influence on the body is obviously different from that of sugar because of the process of digestion.
Although xylitol has some sweetness, the components it metabolizes are different from sugar after being eaten by our human body, so it will not raise blood sugar, and it will not make the human body secrete too much insulin. Even though it tastes as sweet as monosaccharide and disaccharide, its calories are much lower. Of course, the sugar-free moon cakes mentioned here only have no monosaccharide and disaccharide, but it does not mean that this kind of moon cakes are necessarily healthy for people with high blood sugar.
Friends with high blood sugar can eat in moderation, but they should not eat too much.