With the rise of health and health trends, people are more willing to buy healthy ingredients from food. Among them, xylitol foods are increasingly recognized by consumers, which are commonly used in hard candy, snacks, snacks, chewing gum, and beverages.
People who have eaten it will also find that the sweetness of xylitol is very high, but such a sweet food, can diabetics still eat it? If you eat it, will it have an effect on your body?
Dating back to the history of xylitol, as early as the early 1970s, that is, before about 1970, xylitol has been used as a sweetener for diabetics, and xylitol chewing gum has been produced accordingly.
The reason why its taste is so sweet is precisely because its sweetness is almost similar to that of sucrose, and diabetics can eat it with confidence. The sugar-free food on the market now is actually xylitol food.
In China's "General Principles for the Labeling of Prepackaged Special Dietary Products", the standard of sugar-free food is mentioned, mainly refers to solid and liquid foods containing monosaccharides and disaccharides less than or equal to 0.5 grams/100 grams or 100 ml.
In addition, the standard of daily sugar intake for diabetics in Chinese nutrition is within 50g per day, preferably within the range of 25g. Therefore, xylitol food diabetics can eat in moderation.
The study found that xylitol also has several major benefits
Prevent caries: Both adults and children are prone to increase the risk of caries due to various factors in the mouth. Caries is mainly the hardware of the teeth, and the incidence is higher.
In terms of prevention, when it is inconvenient to brush your teeth after meals, you may wish to eat sugar-free gum containing xylitol, which can play a role in the purpose of not being used by bacteria in the mouth, thereby preventing caries.
Improve dry mouth syndrome: If you have autoimmune disease of the salivary glands, in addition to dry mouth accompanied by systemic dry mouth syndrome, xylitol can be used instead of sweet foods, especially snack snacks, to avoid aggravation of the disease.
Improving liver function: Modern medicine believes that xylitol can be used as an ideal substance to modify liver function, especially hepatitis. Xylitol can not affect insulin levels to a certain extent, so that it is used and absorbed by various tissues through the cell membrane to achieve the purpose of synthesizing liver glycogen.
Xylitol is low in calories: Compared with sugar foods such as added sucrose and white sugar, xylitol is low in calories and is more suitable for diabetics.
But xylitol is good, if it is added to the snack cake, diabetics also need to pay attention to, although these foods are low in calories, but high in fat, after eating is also easy to increase the energy intake of the whole day, easy to increase postprandial blood sugar.
Therefore, for such foods, it is recommended that you use them instead of sugar snacks when you are occasionally hungry, but it is a good way to stabilize blood sugar without eating a lot.