As all sugar lovers know, in addition to three meals a day, the diet control of diabetes requires appropriate meals.

Reasonable meals can prevent blood sugar from rising too high, and can also avoid hypoglycemia.

what kind of food should diabetics choose for extra meals?

1. Staple food

Foods rich in carbohydrates and their products can be selected, such as coarse grain bread, coarse grain biscuits and miscellaneous bean products.

this kind of extra food is suitable for all sugar lovers, especially middle-aged and elderly sugar lovers.

eat one or two servings at a time to supplement the amount of staple food reduced in the last meal.

2. protein

Foods with high protein content: such as eggs, lean meat, beef, milk, etc.

These foods are digested and absorbed slowly in the gastrointestinal tract, and the speed of blood sugar increase is also slow, so eating these foods will not lead to blood sugar increase, but also help to prevent the risk of hypoglycemia at night or in the morning.

it is suitable for children's sugar friends during their growth and development, as well as female sugar friends during pregnancy and lactation.

You can have an egg or a bag of milk (about half a catty) or two or two tofu at a time.

3. Fats

are mainly nuts such as walnuts, almonds and peanuts.

It should be noted that the consumption of cooking oil for dinner should be reduced when choosing this kind of snack food. Generally, if you eat about 15 grams of dried fruit, you should reduce the cooking oil by about 1 grams.

4. fruits and vegetables

this kind of extra food is suitable for all sugar lovers.

Vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers and bitter gourd, are relatively safe supplementary foods, which not only ensure proper energy supplement, but also do not lead to an increase in blood sugar.

you can eat about half a catty at a time.

Choose fruits that have little effect on blood sugar, such as watermelon, apple, pear and strawberry.

It is not recommended to eat more foods that have a great influence on blood sugar, such as red dates, bananas, grapes, sugar cane, lychees and sweet oranges.

the premise of adding meals is that the total amount is not added, that is, the diet is quantitative, and less meals are eaten.

Sugar friends can divide their usual breakfast into four equal portions, three of which are breakfast and the other one is breakfast in the morning.

or take out 3 grams of staple food or 5 grams of low-sugar fruit as a supplementary meal, such as tomatoes and strawberries.

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