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Can diabetics drink coconut water?

Sugar lovers can certainly drink coconut water, but drinking 1 coconut at a time, I guess some difficulties Oh.

Let me break it down for you, a typical mature coconut contains 5 grams of carbohydrates per 100 milliliters, and a medium sized coconut has about 500 milliliters. If you drink 1 coconut, then you have consumed 25 grams of carbohydrates, which is equivalent to half a meal. If nothing else is done, your blood sugar is expected to be very bad.



So how do we drink coconut water? Watch me give you little ways:

(1) For blood sugar below 3.9 mmol/L, it is recommended to drink half a coconut water. See if the blood sugar can rise, if not, repeat the operation once more.

(2) For blood sugar of 4-6 mmol/L, you can drink half a coconut water.

(3) If your blood sugar is higher than 6mmol/L, you are not recommended to drink coconut water.

If you want to drink more, you can also consume more by increasing your exercise.

Ps: If you are on insulin therapy, you can eat more and more depending on your carb factor.

Coconut milk is not recommended for people with severe diabetes! Switch to other sugar-free beverages! Because coconuts are the fruit of the coconut tree, they are made up of a shell with a fibrous outer layer that provides the fiber of the coconut skin and the large edible thick fleshy nut inside. When the fruit is fresh, it has a clear liquid called coconut milk. It is produced in the tropics. Coconut milk and coconut meat contains a lot of protein, fructose, glucose, sucrose, fat, vitamin B1, vitamin E, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium and so on. Coconut meat is white as jade, fragrant and smooth; coconut milk is cool and sweet. Coconut meat, coconut juice is a delicious fruit for young and old alike. Normal people drink for a long time, can supplement the body's intracellular fluid, enhance metabolism, and can expand blood volume, can improve the body's ability to resist disease and moisturize, whiten the skin. Diabetics should be cautious! Natural pure coconut water diluted with water to the coconut water can be stabilized in the case of blood sugar to drink a small amount of relief can be, can not drink more, drink before the blood sugar test!

Yes, diabetic patients strictly avoid alcohol, it is not good for the stomach, liver and kidneys. Alcohol inhibits the reactions of gluconeogenesis and hepatic glycogenolysis in the body. These two reactions are the ones that keep blood glucose constant by synthesizing glucose from stored liver glycogen or fat when a person is hungry. Drinking large amounts of alcohol in diabetic patients, especially on an empty stomach, can inhibit the gluconeogenesis reaction, resulting in severe hypoglycemia.

Thanks for the invitation!

It is not recommended to take more than one. Do not exceed 200 ml a day.

The sugars and contents of coconut water vary with maturity. Coconuts with a maturity period of 6 to 7 months have a higher content of reducing sugars, total amino acids and vitamin C than coconuts with a maturity period of 12 to 13 months. Coconut water from 12 to 13 months of maturity had a slightly higher sucrose content. The content of non-reducing sugars in coconut water increased after the 7th month of maturity.

Hello, diabetics should not drink coconut water, although coconut water is light, but its main ingredient is sucrose, sucrose after digestion will be hydrolyzed into glucose sugar and fructose, so that the blood sugar concentration is too high. Therefore, it is better not to consume this kind of sugary food for diabetes.

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