What fruits are good for people with Type 2 diabetes?
Posted on Feb 12, 2009 under type 2 diabetes | 9 CommentsI am looking for information about what types of friuts are good for people with diabetes. I am wondering what types of fruits are not to high in sugar.
It's always good to mix a protein (something like cheese) with fruit then it burns slowers and won't flood the blood with sugar at a fast rate. But some fruits should be avoided….
Look up Low GI foods — here is a link which might help.
http://www.lowglycemicdiet.com/gifoodlist.html
Click on Fruits – and it will show you which fruits are LOW GI, therefore safer to eat in moderation for diabetics.
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February 12th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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February 12th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Strawberries , blueberries , raspberries. You can eat any fruit as long as you eat only half. But strawberries are really low in carbs. And make sure you eat the fruit with a meal. It helps keep your levels from spiking so high. Strawberries sprinkled with splenda is so good!!!
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February 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I have type 2 diabetes and eat mostly fruit and vegetables, and some carbs like wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta and brown rice. My sugars are very good and my blood work is excellent.
The best thing to look for in what type of fruit to eat is to make sure it has a glycemic index (GI) of less than 40 and it shouldn't effect your sugar. Only have 2 pieces a day if you are eating a standard Australian/American diet. Any more than that and your sugars will rise dramatically.
Check out the site below for GI of foods especially fruit.
Do a search on google or yahoo for glycemic index fruit and go from there.
Good luck.
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http://www.mendosa.com/gi.htm
February 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
It's always good to mix a protein (something like cheese) with fruit then it burns slowers and won't flood the blood with sugar at a fast rate. But some fruits should be avoided….
Look up Low GI foods — here is a link which might help.
http://www.lowglycemicdiet.com/gifoodlist.html
Click on Fruits – and it will show you which fruits are LOW GI, therefore safer to eat in moderation for diabetics.
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February 12th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
All fruits are OK, you just need to regulate your portions. The sweeter the fruit tastes, the less you should eat.
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February 12th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
All things in moderation. Don't eat fruit if you're blood sugar is high, but otherwise, fruit is good to have in your diet for the vitamins and minerals in them. Grapes can be good, since they're more tart than sweet.
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February 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
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http://www.mangosteenexperiences.com
February 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
all the fruits are good and you should eat a variety, do not exclude some of them. it is good to combine fruits with complex carbohydrates, like after your meal or with a rice cracker or a wholemeal cracker because this way the digestion will be slower so your glucose level will not increase too rapidly. another thing is that you should eat whole fruits (not peeled or juice) because again it takes more time to digest.
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
None are particularly good. And none are particularly bad.
for diabetics every food, including fruit has to fit into a balanced diet. You can no longer handle excess calories (either fats or carbohydrates) the way you used to and so empty calories (no other nutrients) are particularly useless.
In the case of fruits particularly, the sugar in them is usually fructose (except grapes which have glucose, which used to be called grape sugar). Fructose has its own metabolic sequence in the body and is not turned into glucose in the blood. To some extent, it escapes the entire glucose/insulin thing. But, it's vastly sweeter per gram than ordinary table sugar, and still more sweeter than glucose itself, so how sweet most fruits taste isn't a good guide to their diabetic status.
A better guide is perhaps the glycemic index. some foods are absorbed more quickly than others. The sugar in cooked caroots are absorbed faster than even pure sugar. And the sugar in sweet potatoes is absorbed far more slowly than the sugar in regular potatoes. It's all very odd, and changes depending on the combinations you eat. So cooked carrots with butter (a fat) are much more slowly absorbed than plain cooked carrots. And sour cream slows down absorption of the sugar in ordinary potatoes.
Eat a balanced diet. The Heart healthy ones are pretty good and the American Heart Association is full of pamphlets and recipes as is the American Diabetes Association. Get regular exercise (lots and lots is not required), and don;t eat too much. Eat less to keep your weight down.
There is no magic fruit, nor a particularly evil fruit. It's not where you should be keeping your attention. On the other hand, the lots and lots of kumquats diet …
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