Millet has been on the cusp of the storm, some people say that eating millet can stabilize blood sugar, or healthy spleen and stomach, warm in the cold, clear heat and detoxification of food; others say that drinking millet porridge is like drinking sugar water, it is easy to raise blood sugar after eating, in the end who said it is true?
Millet, also known as chestnut, first appeared in china's Yellow River Basin, has always been one of the five grains that people often eat, with a history of more than 5,000 years. Due to the continuous improvement of material life, modern people have more rice and corn on the table, but fewer and fewer people eat millet.
Even so, the "black pot" of eating millet cannot be carried. For example, does diabetics eat millet to raise blood sugar or lower blood sugar? Drinking millet porridge is like drinking sugar water?
Drinking millet porridge is like drinking sugar water?
Objectively speaking, everyone has a certain prejudice against millet porridge, and the earliest millet is a good health product. In Li Shizhen's Chinese medical classic "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is mentioned that "millet can be used for dysentery, boiling porridge, yidantian, tonic deficiency, and nourishing the stomach and intestines." "Especially people with bad stomach and poor digestive function can drink millet porridge in moderation to nourish the stomach."
Where did the claim about millet porridge drinking sugar water come from? If only from the nutritional value of millet porridge, each 100 grams of millet calories is 46 kcal, carbohydrate 8.4g, protein 1.4g, magnesium 22mg, calcium 10mg.
Its calories are not high, why does it raise blood sugar so quickly? This is also because after a long period of boiling millet porridge, although the water has increased, but due to the characteristics of good digestion and absorption, the time spent in the stomach and intestines is shorter, and after glucose enters the blood quickly, there will be larger blood sugar fluctuations, so there is a risk of raising blood sugar.
In addition, there is a very key factor, millet porridge has a glycemic production index of up to 71, and foods that belong to the high glycemic index are among the best even compared with other grains.
In the control of diabetic patients, there is often such a sentence, we can remember: the better digestion and absorption of food, the faster the rate of sugar rise after meals. On a par with millet porridge are rice porridge and water rice that is often eaten in the market.
However, these are not as exaggerated as drinking sugar water, and when you eat it in moderation or when you feel low blood sugar, such as fatigue, cold sweat, dizziness and headache, drinking millet porridge is still very useful. So, is xiaomi unable to eat?
It is not, in addition to millet porridge, millet has many ways to eat, such as suitable for people to eat millet is a good choice, or and rice to form a golden two rice, the two foods can absorb each other's advantages, but also help to reduce the blood sugar value after the meal.
In research on millet, proper consumption of millet is helpful in reducing the value of glycosylated hemoglobin in diabetic patients for nearly 2 to 3 months.