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In people with diabetes, why does someone's blood sugar go up when they eat pasta?

Some people ask if a diabetic's blood sugar will be high if they eat pasta, right?

Yes, it will rise! But even if you are not a diabetic, your blood sugar will rise when you eat in noodles.

There is an elevation of blood glucose in all foods, not just noodles. Usually after eating, blood glucose begins to rise slowly after 30 minutes and peaks after one hour, usually not exceeding 7.8 mmol/L in non-diabetics, and then blood glucose drops to normal, or below 6.1 mmol/L, two hours after the meal.

If a diabetic eats spaghetti without taking medication, then his blood sugar will definitely rise. This is certain, if the blood sugar does not rise, or quickly dropped to normal, then we should put a question mark on the diagnosis of diabetes, and check to see if we can take off the hat of diabetes.

Of course another scenario in which blood glucose does not rise after meals and remains in the normal range could also be during a clinical remission of diabetes, often referred to as the honeymoon phase, which is usually less common.

As for diabetics, since the body cannot secrete insulin or secrete enough insulin, the ability of peripheral tissues to utilize glucose decreases, and the glucose in the blood cannot enter the cells to play a role with the help of insulin, and it is free in the blood, so the blood glucose will rise, and some of them will be very high, and they can reach the level of 10 or 20 or more. These conditions require very strict dietary control and, if necessary, medication to control blood sugar.

Diabetic friends should try to avoid eating noodles, because noodles are semi-liquid diet, absorption is faster, easy to raise blood sugar, especially those who like to cook the noodles especially bad friends. Especially like to eat noodles is recommended to add more green vegetables, noodles do not cook too soft, do not drink noodle soup may not rise in blood sugar too quickly. For those diabetic friends who control their diet and are able to keep exercising, but their blood sugar is still higher than 10mmol/L 2 hours after meal, they can consider combining with medicines to control postprandial blood sugar, such as metformin, acarbose, prokinetic agents, or short-acting insulin and other medicines.

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Thanks for the invitation. Before answering this question, it is important to understand what diabetes is all about. Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease in which there is a decrease in the quantity or quality of insulin secretion due to a dysfunction of the pancreatic islets that regulate sugar metabolism. In layman's terms, diabetics have a significantly reduced ability to process sugar, which naturally leads to an increase in blood glucose when we consume sugary foods due to the body's inability to efficiently process this blood sugar into the cells.


Don't think of sugar as just the type of food that has a sweet flavor. In fact, there is another group of sugary foods that do not have a distinct sweet flavor, but also fall into the category of sugar! The most common are starchy foods, and the ones we come into contact with most are probably rice and noodles. Such foods are broken down in the small intestine into glucose and absorbed into the bloodstream, which is called blood sugar. Since diabetics have a reduced ability to process glucose, blood sugar naturally rises.


Regarding the effect of food on blood glucose, it can be expressed by two indicators. One is the glycemic index (GI) and the other is the glycemic load (GL).


GI reflects the indicator of how much eating causes the body's blood sugar to rise. Foods with high GI are prone to cause hyperglycemia because they are digested quickly and absorbed well after entering the intestines, and glucose tends to enter the bloodstream rapidly. Conversely, foods with a low GI stay in the gut longer, and glucose enters the bloodstream with a lower peak, causing less of a postprandial glycemic response. That is, insulin fluctuates less.GI below 55 is low GI food, 56-69 is medium GI food, and above 70 is high GI food.


The GI only indicates the rate at which a particular carbohydrate is converted to blood glucose, but to take into account the effect of intake on blood glucose. GL is therefore a more comprehensive concept! GL less than or equal to 10 is considered a low GL food, 11-19 is considered a medium GL food, and greater than or equal to 20 is considered a high GL food.


In looking at noodles, the GI and GL are 81.6 and 50.5 respectively, which are high GI and high GL foods and should be avoided as much as possible. Welcome to follow my headline Jiangsu Provincial Cancer Hospital Li Feng.

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The question should be asked, "Why do some sugar addicts have worse blood sugar spikes when they eat spaghetti?" , if it's just that blood sugar rises after eating food, then so does anyone, after a meal we consume the fats, calories, and carbohydrates in the food, and blood sugar rises anyhow. As for the sugar lover ate noodles after the blood sugar rise serious situation in fact often exist, because in everyone seriously, white rice glycemic speed, but noodles is indeed a kind of light and less sugar food, in fact, noodles and white rice, they all belong to the "fine grain", white rice is in fact refined white rice, and white noodles is refined white wheat flour, in fact, the difference between the two is not much, and even a small amount of food, and even a small amount of food. In fact, the difference between the two is not very big, even wheat flour side of the sugar rate may also be faster, if the sugar friends do not eat scientific noodles, natural blood sugar is going to soar.

Fine grains such as refined white wheat flour are processed very finely before they come out of the field, in order to meet our increased demand for food, such as the requirement for more hygienic, fewer impurities, more delicate taste, although these foods have done a good job of removing impurities, but there are also relative disadvantages, that is, the loss of a greater number of "dietary fiber" components. Dietary fiber is a component that can not be digested and absorbed by us, dietary fiber helps to slow down the speed of food digestion, can slow down the speed of starch into glucose, which helps to inhibit glucose from entering the bloodstream quickly, and now the loss of dietary fiber, glucose can enter the bloodstream faster, it is very easy to rise sharply in postprandial blood glucose. So it is not actually recommended that sugar lovers eat fine grains directly, such as eating white rice, white buns, buns, or white noodles.

How to eat noodles more scientific? Recommended sugar friends can choose to eat buckwheat noodles, coarse grain noodles, mixed grain noodles, corn flour made of dietary fiber to retain more noodles, love to eat noodles, if you can actually buy a noodle machine, knead a little mixed grain flour put in the noodles will be able to come out, the operation is not difficult. Eat a meal of white noodles is also possible, but be sure to pay attention to, do not recommend noodles cooked for too long, noodles cooked for too long, and white rice porridge a reason, the degree of starch pasting will gradually increase, starch for a long time to heat, the chemical bond was destroyed, more conducive to digestion and absorption, then the rate of glucose will be elevated, it is recommended that the general noodles boiling water in the pot and then cook for 2 to 3 minutes on the fish out of the fine noodles 1 to 2 minutes can be fished out of the fish out, the sides of the transparent state of the noodles. The noodles can be fished out in 1~2 minutes, and the noodles can be fished out in 1~2 minutes, and the noodles can be fished out in 1~3 minutes after boiling water.

In addition, eat noodles must be "content-rich", add more vegetables in the noodles, meat with eating, not a bowl of noodles, a lot of noodle store noodle content is not rich, only sauce, a small amount of minced meat, leafy vegetables, etc., and we actually as long as the noodles taste good, then do not pursue the content of it. If the noodles as a meal to eat, more need to enrich the nutrition, noodles mainly provide carbohydrates, and the lack of a variety of minerals, vitamins, proteins and other components, the best noodles, meat and vegetables stand 50%, with a variety of food mix of noodles for sugar lovers will ease the speed of sugar a lot; pay attention to eating noodles chewing and swallowing slowly, the same is a good way to stabilize blood sugar.

As a matter of fact, not only diabetics, but even normal people will have elevated blood sugar after eating noodles. And it's not just noodles, but any food, staple foods aside, are rich in carbohydrates, which are eventually broken down into glucose to supply energy for the body's needs. It is just that the degree of postprandial glycemic response varies from one food to another, and the reason for this varied postprandial glycemic response is mainly due to the type and structure of the carbohydrates in the food, its chemical composition and content, as well as the physical condition of the food and the influence of the process of processing. We call this food glycemic index (GI), it is generally believed that high GI food into the human body, fast digestion, complete absorption, glucose absorption into the blood fast, while low GI food in the gastrointestinal stay a long time, the release of slow, so the glucose into the blood of the peak value is low. The rate of decline is slow.

Let's see the GI value of the pasta

The GI value of noodles, between 41-57 (different wheat hanging noodles), compared to steamed bread white noodles 82-88, white rice 80.2-90 to be much lower, and the glycemic index of noodles is basically also low GI (below 55 or less).

If the question asked by the author is simply that eating pasta simply raises blood sugar, then yes, if it means that eating pasta raises blood sugar more than any other staple food group. I think the main problem is the following.



1. The amount of pasta ingested is a bit large

2. Eating noodles without more vegetables with them

3, if it is homemade soup noodles, there will be a lot of dry flour with it to bring in, so the noodles out of the next are more sticky soup, and if there is no more vegetables with it, in this way the GI value is going to increase, so the speed of the birth of blood sugar will also be accelerated.

4. The blood glucose value itself is unstable, fluctuating high and low.

Hi, I'm here as a dietitian from is chronic disease management for many years to answer this question that many of my fans are concerned about. Why does my blood sugar rise when I eat noodles?

I believe that most people are still just willing to believe that only eat too much sugar will get diabetes, in fact, there is some truth to it, but the most obvious thing that everyone ignores, that is, our intake of staple foods, they are the most sugar that we ingest in addition to directly eating sugar cubes and drinking sugar water, many people will retort, "Hey, don't be ridiculous, we asked the question but the staple food ah, and what sugar! What do we care about sugar?" The key to the problem is here, we always think that the staple food is not sugar, as long as you are hungry when eating a large number of intake of staple food, thus ignoring other fruits and vegetables and meat and eggs and beans and so on. Staple food is sugar, and some people will say, "Hey, don't tease, staple food is not sweet how can it be sugar?". If you have such a question, you may want to slow down your chewing speed and slowly taste the steamed bread, is it sweet? Staple category of all foods, whether refined white rice flour corn or potatoes, the main component is carbohydrates, to put it plainly is sugar, they are a single glycemic rate is not inferior to sugar, we eat the most white rice and white noodles, for example, the same portion of the sugar glycemic index of white sugar is 85, white rice and white noodles are also in the 83-89, so in the case of eating only the staple food, a bowl of rice or white noodles down and drink a bowl of rice! So in the case of eating only staple foods, a bowl of white rice or white noodles and drink a bowl of white sugar water means the same thing, which is why some people never eat extra sugar cubes and drink sugar water will also develop diabetes is one of the main reasons. It's also why blood sugar spikes when you eat white noodles. Also because white noodles tend to be mixed with soup and water, they are better digested and absorbed resulting in a faster rise in sugar.

It should be noted that when the intake of refined white rice and noodles and other staple foods at the same time intake of adequate amounts of green leafy vegetables and appropriate meat and fish will be very good to assist the body to reduce the refined white rice and noodles itself the rate of glycemic, which is why we all eat refined white rice and noodles you got diabetes and he did not get a major reason. Similarly, this is also a diabetic in the control of sugar on the road need to pay attention to the point, if you can not well grasp the proportion of various types of food, you can private letter to find me, I can help you.

Of course, nothing is absolute, cause diabetes is not entirely dietary reasons, but most people are long-term (several years and decades) diet structure is unreasonable caused by the heart does not rule out the reasons, lack of exercise or some other diseases secondary to diabetes, here do not do too much explanation, this question and answer is only for the diet caused by improper diabetes. I hope the above answer can help you.

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Many diabetics in the daily diet found that after eating noodles, blood sugar will be higher than eating rice and other staple foods, so that eating noodles will increase blood sugar and dare not eat noodles, like eating noodles is very "sad". In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the noodles, the reason why there will be such a situation, because the problem in the eating method, you need to check whether to eat noodles to pay attention to the following issues:

First, is the speed of eating noodles much faster than eating rice? This is the most likely problem when eating noodles, a large bowl of noodles within a few minutes to go down, almost or very little chewing, many people say that this eating noodles to have the feeling of eating noodles, in fact, this is the cause of postprandial hyperglycemia occurs one of the main reasons for eating fast digestion and absorption is also fast, the magnitude of the elevation of blood glucose naturally rises.

Secondly, how many dishes are served with the noodles? Eating noodles is very concerned about the "toppings", whether it is tomato sauce or meat sauce, poured on the eat up on the delicious, than eating rice, steamed buns need to have more dishes to eat to be much simpler, but because of this eating noodles when the intake of dietary fiber will be less, don't underestimate the dietary fiber, which can not be absorbed by the human body of a substance, but the gastrointestinal can play a role like a sponge to absorb water, the digestion of glucose, fat hidden in it, thus slowing down or even inhibiting the rapid absorption of them is very conducive to the control of meals. Gastrointestinal can play a role like a sponge to absorb water, the digestion of glucose, fat hidden in which, thus slowing down or even inhibiting the rapid absorption of them, very conducive to controlling the magnitude of postprandial blood glucose rise.

Third, eat noodles to eat hot to be comfortable, in fact, the noodles in a very hot situation, the starch in it will be pasteurized, this state of digestion will be faster, but also promotes the rate of absorption, the postprandial blood sugar will naturally rise.

In fact, compared to the usual staple food such as rice and noodles, the same important rice and noodles contain almost the same amount of carbohydrates, and ultimately converted to the amount of glucose is not much difference, the total amount of glucose is almost the same, the key lies in the speed of absorption of the difference in absorption, the faster the absorption of glucose increases the higher the magnitude of the total amount of glucose is the same, in fact, it is easy for diabetic patients to control blood glucose, it is easy to ignore a problem. This is also a problem that diabetics tend to ignore when controlling blood sugar, remember that controlling blood sugar should be done to reduce blood sugar at the same time as the postprandial blood sugar elevation down, in order to really achieve smooth sugar reduction. So when you eat noodles, do: more vegetables, eat slowly, do not overheat.

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Diabetics, who eat noodles have high blood sugar. The reason for this is due to the following:

1. Excessive intake of noodles.

2. Poor choice of noodles.

3. Inadequate combination of primary and secondary foods.

First, a fact needs to be understood:

Although the "glycemic index" and the "glycemic load" of a certain food is a "fixed" value. However, the situation may be completely different for a particular person.

For example, if you consume the same amount of calories of staple food, some people will have high blood glucose when they eat rice and low blood glucose when they eat noodles, and some people will have high blood glucose when they eat noodles and low blood glucose when they eat rice. Some people eat bananas and have a fast blood glucose response, while others have a slow blood glucose response to bananas and a fast response to apples - this is a difference in "individual genes" and "digestive traits".

As the saying goes, "long illnesses make you a doctor", and when you eat noodles with high blood sugar, you have to take decisive measures.

First, reduce the amount of pasta eaten and combine it with other roughage staples.

Diabetic patients, according to the condition and their ideal body weight, roughly estimated carbohydrate intake, and then allocated to three meals a day, if the blood sugar is still unstable, you can part of the staple food, moved to one or two small meals to eat, in order to help calm the blood sugar.

There are many staple foods to choose from, whole grain foods, potatoes, mixed beans, etc., all while monitoring your blood sugar.

Second, change the noodle variety.

Noodles made from refined flour, including hanging noodles, hand-rolled noodles, instant noodles, etc., are not suitable for diabetics.

Suitable choice for sugar lovers:

Noodles made from couscous flour with the addition of vegetable powder, mixed grain powder, and minced vegetables not only look good, but are more nutritionally balanced and have a more suitable texture.

Third, the high blood sugar caused by noodles is also related to the improper combination of side dishes.

Eating more low-calorie vegetables at the beginning of your pasta meal not only increases satiety, but also slows down the speed and magnitude of the blood sugar spike - that's dietary fiber at work.

In addition, animal foods such as meat, poultry, eggs, milk and fish have a roughly equivalent effect - these are high-calorie, high-protein, low-carbohydrate foods that are slower to digest and prevent the absorption of starchy foods.

Finally, a poem by Zheng Banqiao of the Qing Dynasty, "Bamboo and Stone", to send a message to sugar lovers:

Bite the green mountain and do not let go, the root of the original in the broken rock.

A thousand blows are still strong, let the wind blow from east to west and from south to north.

Sincerely: Cope to you:

Diabetes should eat less noodles. Noodles are rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber and plant sterols and other nutrients, easy to digest and absorb, improve anemia, balance nutrient absorption, spleen and thick intestines and other effects. However, noodles are high in starch, belonging to the high-calorie, high-sugar, high-glycemic index of the staple food, a large number of consumption will cause blood glucose fluctuations, it is recommended that diabetes eat less noodles, you can choose to eat coarse grains, such as buckwheat, barley, millet made of noodles.

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Because the "glycemic index" of noodles is actually higher, the glycemic index is used to measure the food intake and blood glucose rise rate between the indicators, generally speaking, if the value is more than 55 belongs to the higher glycemic index of the food, is not suitable for sugary friends to eat more, if more than 70 must be strictly control the amount of white noodles in the glycemic index in the 60 ~ 70 or so, actually belongs to the higher glycemic index of food. The glycemic index of white noodles is around 60~70, which actually belongs to the higher glycemic index food. Sugar lovers eat noodles is best to science to eat, otherwise it is indeed very easy to appear blood sugar rapid spike.

There are two reasons, one is because we now often eat white noodles, basically with "refined white wheat flour" production, refined white wheat flour in the field of strong processing of fine, although made of pasta taste delicate, but because of the serious loss of dietary fiber, which starch is more easily broken down into glucose is absorbed, fast rise in blood glucose after meals, the sugar is not conducive to friends.

The second is because many friends eat noodles in the wrong way. Generally speaking, we eat noodles will pay attention to the noodles and sauce, basically noodles as long as the sauce is good words, this is a good bowl of noodles, but if it is such a bowl of noodles down the nutritional composition of the basic only carbohydrates, fats and oils, a small amount of minerals, naked is to let the sugar friends "eat sugar", so eat down, blood sugar is very easy to soar.

(A bowl of dry noodles with little else but noodles)

So can sugar lovers still eat noodles? It's okay to eat, but it's just a matter of being careful about how you eat your noodles.

First of all, we can choose than refined white wheat flour made of white noodles more conducive to sugar, such as buckwheat noodles, mixed grains, couscous flour and other flour to retain more dietary fiber made of noodles, so that dietary fiber helps to slow down the speed of digestion of food, and let the postprandial blood glucose rise more smoothly. In addition, we must pay attention to the "noodles are not the main character", noodles is actually a carbohydrate-rich staple food, if a qualified meal, we also need more minerals, vitamins, proteins and other ingredients to match, so noodles should be rich in vegetables, meat, including eggs, fish and shrimp and other food mix. Recommended for sugar lovers to eat enough 1~2 two noodles in one meal, but there must be 40~50% of vegetables, meat, eggs, fish and shrimp with to eat, so that not only can improve the nutritional value of noodles, but also reduce the starch and digestive juices contact opportunities, is also beneficial to smooth blood sugar.

In addition, some friends may eat noodles cooked longer, the noodles are soft and even a little sticky noodle soup, many friends will feel that this kind of noodles "flavor", but in fact, the sugar friend is not recommended to cook for too long (noodles on both sides of the somewhat transparent on the line), starch if heated for a long time, "pasteurization degree "will rise, that is, heating destroys more microcrystalline structure of starch, so that the chemical bond is broken, food better digestion and absorption, which will also lead to glucose is more conducive to the decomposition of glucose into the blood sugar, for example, we ate a bowl of rice compared to rice porridge and postprandial glucose will be maintained better.

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Most of the noodles on the market are made from refined flour, where the wheat is milled and finally processed into white noodles, such that the noodles from theIn terms of raw materials, there is very little dietary fiber, and the GI value of cooked noodles is around 80, which is a high-glycemic food, which does have a greater effect on blood sugar when consumed.

In terms of cooking, if you cook for a longer period of time and the pasta is too soft, it will be digested and absorbed more quickly and blood sugar fluctuations will be more pronounced.


1, for diabetics, the staple food is recommended to coarse and fine mix, grains and potatoes with to eat.

If you like pasta, you can opt for mixed grain pasta thatWhen choosing and selecting, pay attention to the list of ingredients, mixed grain flour ranked first is the authentic mixed grain noodles.For example, buckwheat noodles, buckwheat flour must be in the first place to show that the buckwheat content is higher.


2. In addition, learn to mix high and low and cook simply.

You can add more vegetables when cooking noodles, green leafy vegetables such as bok choy and spinach are very good, together with eggs, lean meat, fish and shrimp and other high-quality proteins, the mixed diet can also reduce the glycemic index of noodles alone. The cooking time should not be too long to avoid overcooking.


3. Finally, it is also important to pay attention to the intake of pasta.No more than a fist-sized portion at each meal, even if it's a munchkin, eating too much can still affect blood sugar levels.

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