Diabetic patients available sweeteners

Sweetener is a sweet taste, but not sugar, it does not affect blood glucose. Edible sweeteners do not just do not cause blood glucose fluctuations, and does not increase consumption of calorie intake, so you can protect them from high-fat or weight gain, thus not only suitable for diabetes patients, but also suitable for obesity and all over middle age. Diabetic patients available sweeteners including the following categories:

1. xylitol: taste sweet and low absorption rate, and its in vivo metabolism process does not require insulin, so glucose xylitol after increased speed well below the food glucose hyperglycemia caused after. But the intestinal absorption of xylitol in less than 20%, so you eat too much may cause diarrhea;

2. category: stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is a stevia extract of sugarless sweeteners, 300 times, sucrose, high consumption does not increase after the intake of calories, nor cause blood glucose fluctuations;

3. amino sugar or protein sugars: consists of phenylalanine and aspartic acid synthesis of substances, is a relatively new sweeteners, sweetness is high on blood sugar and calories of little impact;

4. fructose: is a nutritive sweetener, into the blood, to a certain extent, stimulate the secretion of insulin, and fructose metabolism process start phase does not require insulin, coupled with the high fructose sweetness, a small amount of food it can satisfy the taste, without causing severe fluctuations in blood sugar. In fact, as long as the glycemic index of foods on blood glucose fluctuations are not large.

The glycemic index is a measure of a variety of food on blood sugar may make much impact indicators. Specific measurement is to eat a certain amount of a food, the measurement after eating a few hours of blood sugar blood sugar levels, calculate the area under the curve, and the measurement of glucose tolerance curve comparison, the ratio under is called the glycemic index. The Glycemic Index rates and various food digestion, absorption and metabolism, digestion, the absorption of fast, slow metabolism of the glycemic index is high. Therefore, the glycemic index to decide various food intake has some significance. For example, rice, rice, wheat flour of the glycemic index is higher than the oats and oat, this requires that we eat sticky rice, rice, wheat flour, the volume can be reduced. If it is possible to eat a bit of oats or oat, roughage, beneficial to blood sugar control. Most of the sweeteners the glycemic index is not high and even very low blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.

(Editors: Han 1m1m SWE)