Sweeteners: Let people who enjoy the taste of sweet

Number of diabetic patients is love sweet food or beverage, deprived of the pleasure of eating sweets, they are a great deal of pain. To this end, scientists have discovered or invented a number of sweeteners, so diabetic patients can enjoy the pleasure of eating sweet, but also from a result of sugar caused by hyperglycemia.

Refers to sweeteners taste sweet, but not carbohydrates, it will not affect the blood sugar substances. Consumption of sweeteners is not only will not cause blood sugar fluctuations, and not to increase the calorie intake from food, it will spare them the elevated blood lipids, or the threat of weight gain, it does not only apply to patients with diabetes, and obesity and is suitable for all middle-aged and older people. The sweetener can be used in diabetic patients, including the following categories:

1. Xylitol: The taste of sweet and low absorption rate, and it's metabolic processes in the body does not require the involvement of insulin, so blood sugar rise after eating xylitol speed much lower than after consumption of glucose-induced hyperglycemia. However, in the intestinal absorption of xylitol is less than 20%, so eat more likely to cause diarrhea;

2. Stevia categories: Stevia is extracted from one out of sweeteners, high-sugar sweetness than 300-fold increase after consumption of calorie intake, do not cause fluctuations in blood sugar;

3. Amino sugar or protein, carbohydrate: L-phenylalanine from aspartic acid or synthetic material, is a relatively new sweetener, high sweetness of sugar and heat have little effect;

4. Fructo: is a nutritive sweetener, into the blood after a certain extent, can stimulate insulin secretion, and metabolism of fructose does not require the beginning of the role of insulin, combined with high fructose sweetness, a small amount of can satisfy the taste of food and will not cause drastic fluctuations in blood sugar. In fact, as long as the Glycemic Index of foods is not high on the blood sugar fluctuations are not large.

Glycemic Index is a measure of a variety of food on blood glucose may have little impact indicators. Specific measurement method is to eat a certain amount of some food, eat a few hours after measurement of blood glucose levels, glucose area under the curve calculation, and the measurement of glucose tolerance curve compared with the ratio is called the Glycemic Index. High or low blood glucose index food with a wide range of digestion, absorption and metabolism, and assimilation, faster, slower glucose metabolism on high-index. Therefore, the Glycemic Index of the decision of a variety of food intake have a certain significance. For example, glutinous rice, rice, wheat flour is higher than the Glycemic Index oats and naked oats, which requires us to eat glutinous rice, rice, wheat flour, the amount may be reduced appropriately. Can eat a little every day, such as naked oats or oat coarse grains, it will help control blood sugar. Most index is not high blood sugar sweeteners or low blood sugar in diabetic patients with little effect.