One thing I've always wondered about is that hawthorn has suddenly caught fire this year, and has actually become the drink that everyone is making water out of, saying that it lowers blood pressure? Weird.

Hawthorn can play a role in aiding digestion, which is the role of the organic acid it contains can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, this is its mechanism. For a person with normal intestinal and gastrointestinal function, long-term drinking hawthorn bubble water can drink out of gastric acid secretion, acid reflux heartburn.

Hawthorn will not have a single effect on blood sugar or blood pressure. Especially blood sugar, not only does it not lower, but it can raise blood sugar relatively quickly.

Hawthorn does not taste sweet, that is because it contains too much organic acid, and the acidic flavor directly hides the sweetness. The sugar content of hawthorn is not low, about 20%. As long as the food contains more sugar, all of them can raise blood sugar, only some of them rise fast, some of them are slower.

Relative to rice, hawthorn elevate blood sugar speed is indeed slow, but can not be said to hawthorn lower blood sugar, this is two different things. You eat a bowl of rice, and then eat some hawthorn, the more you eat, the higher the blood sugar rises, rather than lowering blood sugar.

Jiang Dan, registered dietitian, signed author of today's headlines.

Nutritionist small sugar to answer for everyone. Hawthorn is elevated blood sugar, although hawthorn tastes sour, its sugar content is relatively high, reaching 25%, which is relatively high when put in fruits, because the sugar content of general fruits is around 15%. So judging whether the fruit can be eaten or not, just look at its flavor sweet or not is not scientific, hawthorn is a typical example of not sweet but containing much sugar. Then why does hawthorn contain so much sugar, many nutritionists still recommend diabetics to eat hawthorn?

Because hawthorn is rich in vitamins, pectin, etc., it can promote insulin secretion, maintain the normal level of blood glucose, improve gastrointestinal health, improve constipation and so on. Hawthorn also contains more esterase, which can eliminate grease and promote digestion. Hawthorn can also activate blood circulation, help diabetics prevent vascular lesions.

It is because of the sour taste of hawthorn, hawthorn fresh fruit we usually do not eat more, 3~4 per day can be. Even if its sugar content is high, controlling the amount of consumption will not affect blood sugar significantly.

Besides eating hawthorn fresh fruit, diabetics can also drink water with dried hawthorn, such as hawthorn soaking chrysanthemum, hawthorn soaking goji berry and so on, which also have certain health effects. But don't eat some hawthorn products, such as dried hawthorn, hawthorn slices, ice candy gourd, sugar fried hawthorn, etc. The sugar content is very high, which can easily make the blood sugar soar.

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A lot of friends ask about hawthorn, we have the most health problems in addition to the berries belong to hawthorn. Some friends want to know whether hawthorn can lower fat, can reduce stress, can lower sugar, there are friends want to know whether hawthorn can whiten, beautiful skin, can lose weight, hawthorn suddenly became the object of everyone's hot discussion, but I'm afraid that hawthorn should let everyone disappointed, hawthorn itself can not be so capable, it is not a cure for all diseases of the miracle cure, it is a kind of ordinary fruit only. So this hawthorn in the end can not lower blood sugar?

There is really no clear clinical research to prove that hawthorn can lower blood sugar, so friends with diabetes or high blood sugar can't rely on eating hawthorn to smooth out blood sugar, they should still take medicine, and don't reduce the amount of insulin injection. Why would some friends think that hawthorn can lower blood sugar? In fact, it also comes from a lot of unreliable information on the network mentioned that hawthorn has the efficacy of lowering fat and losing weight, because hawthorn contains enzyme components that can quickly break down fat, so it is also easy for us to associate that hawthorn can lower fat, so can hawthorn lower sugar? Can it lower blood pressure? First of all, if the enzyme can be used as a fat-lowering substance, then we are not our own can be active thin, our body enzyme can be more to go, not lack of that lipase, this lipase is not want it to use more can be more use, hawthorn those enzymes in fact no big deal, is a very common ingredient, directly say can lose weight fat also want to put a question mark.

In fact, hawthorn is a food we are very familiar with, many friends from childhood partners, such as hawthorn slices, fructan skin, sugar gourd, which is a snack that we ate from childhood to adulthood, hawthorn gives us the impression that it should be sweet, but in fact, hawthorn can be acidic, hawthorn feels sweet because hawthorn is too acidic, so a lot of food about hawthorn is processed food, in order to pursue the texture of the food, it would be added many Sucrose, such as hawthorn slices, fructan skin are full of sucrose, on the contrary, eating these processed foods may not only not lower our blood sugar but also soar. Hawthorn sour flavor, because hawthorn contains a lot of organic acid components, these organic acids can promote gastric acid secretion, help to improve digestion, especially eat a lot of greasy food, meat, eat a little hawthorn can play a good effect of elimination of food, so a lot of elimination of food medicines and food will add hawthorn. However, many friends also say that hawthorn can reduce fat and lower fat, to be clear, can digest food faster is not equal to be able to reduce fat, absorbed energy is still attributed to us.

Hawthorn although eat up sour, but hawthorn sugar content is not low, just sour over sweet flavor. If the sugar friend eats too much then may also let the blood sugar rise faster, so hawthorn can really not be able to lower sugar food, hawthorn berries are not all-powerful, hawthorn red rich in a variety of minerals, vitamins components, usually appropriate to eat a little supplement point beneficial components or good.

You only need to understand one thing: all foods only increase sugar, not lowering sugar, the only difference is due to their respective starch, sugar, carbohydrate content of different portions, caused by the glycemic index has a high and low only. Whether he is an expert, specialist physician, nutritionist, or what a big name, but where to tell you which food can lower sugar? I'm sure he's a dilettante, a half-wit, a quack.

There's nothing that lowers sugar unless it's a hypoglycemic drug!

Glycemic! Fruits have their own sugar. They raise blood sugar.

Hawthorn is glycemic!

Hawthorn has a sugar content of about 25.1%, a Glycemic Index (GI) of about 50, and a glycemic load of 10 or more, so diabetics should eat less hawthorn.

Hawthorn contains Ursolic Acid, which causes liver cells to place more acceptors on the surface of bad cholesterol (LDL), making it easier to drag LDL from the bloodstream into the cells, where it can be broken down (Atherosclerosis, Vol. 123, pp. 235-241).

A group of scholars from the Chinese University of Hong Kong found that hawthorn can not only drag away the LDL in the blood, but also reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the small intestine. Hawthorn can inhibit a biological enzyme called ACAT (Acyl-CoA: Cholesterol Acyltransferase) in the cells of the small intestine, which helps the small intestine to absorb cholesterol, and then enter into the bloodstream in the form of chylomicron (J. Nutr., Vol. 132, pp. 5-10).

So hawthorn is a healthy food that is good for lowering cholesterol.

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In fact, it is not true that hawthorn fresh fruit contains a high amount of "sugar", as high as 22% from the food composition list. However, the "sugar" here actually refers to sugar in the broad sense, that is, carbohydrates, which include not only the sweet glucose, fructose and sucrose that we usually know, but also dietary fiber.

The "sugar" in common hawthorn is mainly fructose and glucose, with a content of about 5 to 15%, which is about the same level as apples (about 13%). The remaining "sugar" is mainly pectin, accounting for about 6.4% of the total weight, which is a kind of dietary fiber that produces almost no calories and has little sweetness. Therefore, if you give up eating fresh hawthorn just because of its high sugar content, you really don't have to.

What you really need to pay attention to is the various hawthorn products that contain really high sugar content. Because hawthorn is rich in a variety of organic acids, it can be very sour when eaten directly, so many hawthorn snacks add a lot of sugar to temper the sour flavor, which greatly increases the sugar content. Coupled with the fact that many hawthorn snacks contain very little water, which further increases the percentage of sugar.

You think you are eating hawthorn, in fact ...... a mouthful of hawthorn slices, may be half a mouthful is sugar, so the kidney friend with high blood sugar must pay attention! The nutritional value of fresh hawthorn is still outstanding among fruits, such as high vitamin C content, strong antioxidant, helps digestion and so on. Eating fresh hawthorn berries occasionally is actually quite good.

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