Food at diabetes doesn't mean a complete elimination of sweet products at all. At the correct approach you can quite add your favourite delicacies to the diet. For this purpose it will only be required to reduce amount of sugar and fat in your favourite recipes.либо to replace them with something more suitable.
For many years of people with diabetes warn that they have to avoid the use of sweeties. However, modern researchers changed a concept of diabetic food a little.
Sugar and amount of carbohydrates
In food of patients with diabetes the main aspect – amount of the used carbohydrates. Earlier it was supposed that honey, candies and other sweeties are capable to raise sugar level in blood quicker and above, than fruit, vegetables or "starchy" products (potatoes, pasta or bread). Actually, it not absolutely so if sweeties are used together with other food and are balanced with other products in your menu. In spite of the fact that various types of carbohydrates can affect sugar level in blood differently, their total has paramount value.
All secret that it is possible to replace with small portions of sweeties other carbohydrates from a diet - bread, flat cakes, rice, crackers, oat flakes, fruit, juice, milk, yogurt or potatoes. For example, your typical dinner - boiled chicken breast, average potato, a piece of whole-grain bread, a vegetable salad and fresh fruit. You can replace a piece of bread and fresh fruit with a cake piece. As a result the total amount of carbohydrates will remain the same.
What can you replace sugar with?
The most suitable delicacies at diabetes are fruit jelly or ice cream without addition of sugar. As other quite quite good desserts the dairy pudding or low-fat yogurt with addition of fresh berries and fruit can serve. Artificial sweeteners can also help you to avoid consumption of sugar and at the same time to reduce food caloric content. They are especially relevant when using instead of sugar in coffee and tea or at baking of a bakery goods. The most known of them are to potassium atsesulfa, aspartame and saccharin. One more substitute of sugar at diabetes – natural sweeteners. In particular, it is possible to carry a stevia and nectar of an agave to those. Keep in mind that the necessary amount of sugar and sweeteners will differ at preparation of each product. Therefore you have to experiment, you won't find yet taste which is pleasant to you. Also it is necessary to remember that nectar of an agave is quite high-calorie and it shouldn't be used for weight loss, at the same time it has lower glycemic index and almost doesn't influence glucose level in blood.