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Is it better to eat buns or rice as a staple food for diabetics? Why?

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The answer is three words: no difference.

This should not be a problem, but many diabetics often ask the question, the reason is that many diabetics do not know what dietary control in the end to control, resulting in a lot of food want to eat also dare not eat. In fact, diabetics do not have any food can not eat, just look at you will eat will not eat, and rice and steamed bread are the main daily staple food, do not eat which one is good and which one is not good problem.

Diabetics' blood sugar mainly comes from food, so as long as you eat it will affect the level of blood sugar, there is hardly any food that does not contain sugar in the food that you eat everyday, even vegetables contain it, just that it contains very little of it. Moreover, the core of diabetic dietary control, is to control the total calorie intake, simply to control the total amount of the final transformation into blood sugar, as for what food to provide does not have strict requirements.

Take rice and steamed bread, equal amount of two kinds of food into the body after the total amount of transformation into blood sugar difference is very small, that is to say, ate 2 two rice and 2 two steamed bread, eventually into the same amount of blood sugar, want to eat which one can, there is no need to choose which one on the laborious effort. For the same reason, all the usual staple foods, including can replace the staple food of potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkin, etc. are the same.

However, it should be reminded that: although there is no need to bother about what staple food to eat, but how to eat is a delicate matter, otherwise there may be after eating staple food made of rice and pasta, the result of high and low blood glucose, and why is it?

This is because, although the total amount of rice and noodles eventually converted into blood sugar after eating an equal amount is the same, but because the speed of sugar in food into the bloodstream is fast and slow, rapid entry into the bloodstream, blood glucose in an instant will rise, blood glucose will show a relatively high; on the contrary, sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream at a slower rate, blood glucose is gradually increased, its highest value will be much lower than the highest value when the rapid entry into the bloodstream.

Understand this, diabetic patients know that when eating rice or steamed bread, as far as possible to reduce the rate of sugar absorption into the blood, to avoid a rapid rise in blood glucose, there are ways to help patients to do this, commonly used the main ones are:

Eat dry rice, not thin rice, eat a little hard than eat a soft good The reason is very simple the thinner and softer the rice, such as boiled into porridge or thin rice, into the stomach and intestines can be absorbed without too much grinding and digestion, the magnitude of the blood glucose elevation will naturally be high.

  • Eat slower, eat more with vegetables This is also well understood, eat slow digestion and absorption will be slow, vegetables contain a lot of dietary fiber, and dietary fiber can not be absorbed, it can be in the stomach and intestines like a "sponge", the food in the sugar sucked to the "sponge" in the "sponge", thus slowing down the absorption of sugar into the blood glucose will slow down the speed of blood glucose into the blood glucose. "in, thus slowing down the absorption of sugar, blood sugar into the blood sugar rate will be slow.

  • Eat a little bit of miscellaneous, a little bit of variety is better For example, when making rice with a little bit of beans, steamed buns with a little bit of cornmeal and other miscellaneous grains, miscellaneous grains and beans itself contains less sugar than rice and noodles, and contains more dietary fiber, added together both to reduce the total amount of sugar, but also slows down the rate of absorption of sugar, very beneficial to the control of blood glucose.

In short, diabetics must know: diet control is not to control what to eat, but to learn how to eat, only then can really achieve the purpose of diet control, not to deprive the right to eat a variety of food, which is also caused by many patients have "worse than death" psychological feeling of the root cause.

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If you are really serious, steamed bread or rice is not the most suitable food for diabetic patients, their rate of glucose are faster, can not better stabilize postprandial blood sugar. If it is a big white steamed bread, is made of wheat flour food, particles more fine, the rate of glucose will be faster, rice is also bare carbohydrates, just some of the particles are larger, need to chew on some, relatively speaking, may be slower than the steamed bread rate of glucose.

I remember before a friend with type 1 diabetes, because the morning up stomach feel too hungry, immediately took two small white steamed buns steamed a little eat, but also but five minutes, feel all wrong, a measurement of blood glucose higher than 10, visible this buns can be said to be the speed of sugar leverage. Many sugar lovers doubt in their choice of staple food, and even think that since the staple food will rise blood sugar, then do not eat staple food is not easy to control sugar? That's definitely not the case.

In fact, staple food is indeed the main food that raises sugar, because carbohydrates are eventually converted into glucose, glucose is the main substance that affects blood sugar, but glucose is also the substance that provides the most important energy needed by the body, it is a necessary ingredient of the human body, otherwise every minute and every second of our respiration, organ functioning, body movements, thinking and so on can't be carried out smoothly, even if you are a sugar addict, you should also consume staple food normally. Even if you are a sugar addict, you should consume staple foods normally. Sugar addicts themselves take glucose-lowering medication, inject insulin, and are perfectly capable of smoothing out the glucose provided by staple foods. It's just that we can give insulin a bit of relief by choosing staple food groups that are more slowly digested and slow down the rate of sugar absorption.

Therefore, steamed bread or rice, we can find ways to add more dietary fiber and other ingredients in them to slow down the digestion of food, while slowing down the rate of sugar absorption to achieve the effect of smooth blood sugar, such as adding some coarse grains in the rice mixed beans mixed up, not only to increase the diversity of food to provide a richer nutrient content, but also a wealth of dietary fiber, which slows down the rate of digestion of food to Inhibit the absorption of fat, cholesterol and sugar, and smooth postprandial blood sugar. You can also use potato food instead of staple food, potato food itself is rich in starch, but also rich in dietary fiber, a strong sense of satiety, but also more conducive to the employment of postprandial blood sugar.

Buns, we can also choose coarse grain buns, grain buns, cornmeal buns, etc., these buns contain more ambrosia ingredients, dietary fiber is richer, but also more conducive to smooth postprandial blood sugar, you can even buy some coarse grain noodles, grind some coarse grain noodles and noodles to do their own buns, so that the buns are more conducive to the health and smooth blood sugar.

Most of us usually eat whatever we want to eat, but for diabetics, food must be carefully chosen because dietary control is as important as medication! Dietary control is the basic treatment in the treatment of diabetes, and its treatment is through the adjustment of the total daily intake of energy, dietary structure and the distribution ratio of meals, which is conducive to glycemic control, to maintain the patient's ideal body weight and to prevent the occurrence of malnutrition. Among the sources of energy in the diet of diabetic patients include carbohydrates, fats, proteins, etc., and the buns and rice mentioned above, belong to carbohydrates.

Is it better to eat steamed buns or rice as a staple food for diabetics?

Whether steamed bread or rice, its main ingredient is starch. However, due to the different processing, their ability to raise blood glucose is also different. It is reported that the glycemic index of steamed buns made of flour is 88.1 and that of rice is 83.2. The lower the glycemic index, the less likely it is to raise blood sugar.

Why are the two foods different in terms of glycemic index even though their main ingredient is starch? This is because the flour used to make steamed bread is mainly made from wheat, which is ground and finely processed to make flour. From the perspective of food absorption, the finer the food processing, the easier it is to be absorbed. So the starch after fine processing is more easily absorbed than ordinary starch, so the steamed bread compared to rice, the starch in it is more easily absorbed, elevating blood sugar is more obvious. So from this point of view, rice is more suitable to be the staple food for diabetics.

How does a diabetic's diet fit in?

Diabetic patients need to control the total amount of intake on the one hand, and on the other hand, need to ensure that the nutrition, so the scientific diet is particularly important.

First of all, the main provider of energy in the diet of diabetic patients is still mainly carbohydrates, dietary carbohydrates should provide energy accounted for 50% -65% of the total energy, it is recommended that the white rice, brown rice, oats or buckwheat, etc. as the main staple food is not finely processed, and pasta, steamed bread, flour, porridge and so on, due to the processing of easier to be absorbed, it is easy to elevate blood glucose.

In terms of fat, because of the high energy supply of fat, the proportion in the diet should not be too large, accounting for 20%-30% of the total energy is appropriate. Protein is equally important in the diet, the intake can account for 15%-20% of the energy supply ratio, and it is best to eggs, lean meat and other animal quality protein. In addition, vegetables have little effect on blood sugar, and can provide vitamins and fiber, diabetic patients can be appropriate to eat more. Fruits need to be divided into categories, such as apples, dragon fruit, pears and other relatively low glycemic index of the fruit, can be in the case of blood glucose control is still good, in between meals in moderation.


In general, diabetic patients do not absolutely can not eat food, as long as according to their own blood sugar levels to grasp the "quality" and "quantity" of food on the line, so the staple food to eat steamed bread good, or eat rice good question ultimately in fact there is no standard answer, the key is to The key is the overall control.

Diabetics eat steamed bread is good or rice is good, it should be slightly better rice, but in fact, learn to eat correctly, the difference is not big, there is nothing to get hung up on.

Why should we say that eating rice is slightly better? Let's take white rice and white steamed buns as an example. The glycemic index GI value of white rice is 83, and the glycemic index GI value of white steamed buns is 88, which means that white steamed buns have a faster glycemic rate, so they are relatively less suitable for sugar lovers to eat.

But smart sugar friends, certainly not directly to the white rice and white bread as the main food, but will be fine grains and coarse grains together with, made of two rice or three rice to eat. This not only enriches the nutrition, but also reduces the glycemic index. Since you can eat mixed grain rice, of course, you can also eat mixed grain buns, such as bran buns, buckwheat buns, corn buns, as well as nests such as mixed grain pastry, diabetics can eat.

For staple foods, diabetics just need to remember one principle: diversify the mix and control the serving size. There is hardly any staple food that cannot be eaten. Even the faster-glycemic noodles, rice noodles, etc., as long as you eat less, and pay attention to with vegetables and protein-rich foods, the rate of glycemic will not be very fast, can be eaten.

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No need to get hung up on this, neither buns nor rice are the best choice for diabetics!

A say eat, the first reaction is rice, steamed bread, in fact, the staple food is not this has these two kinds of, the world is so big, there are so many delicious, why have to be entangled in these two kinds of food on it.

GI values of some staple foods

According to the data in the Nutritional Composition Table of Foods 2002, the GI of rice is 83.2, the GI of steamed buns is 88.1, and the GI of an additional noodle is 81.6

GI>70 belongs to high GI food, diabetic patients should control or even do not eat this kind of food, to prevent postprandial blood sugar is too high. After reading the above data, will you still be torn between eating steamed buns or rice? Even noodles are not good ah!

What staple foods can diabetics eat?

GI values of some staple foods, whole wheat flour thin noodles 37, string beans 27, potato vermicelli 13.6, yams 51, lotus root noodles 32.6, mung beans 27.2, string beans 27, red lentils 26, green lentils 30, etc.

Is it true that you can't eat rice?NO, NO, NO!

If you want to eat rice, you can add the above low GI foods, such as a mixture of string beans, mung beans, and rice to make rice, which will have a much lower GI than plain rice.

The most important thing to consider about the foods that diabetics eat is the GI, the amount of carbohydrates, and how much or how little of that food to eat.

[Author: Liu Qian

National Public Dietitian II

Hengdian Nutrition+ Editor, Microclass Leader

Member of the Chinese Nutrition Society】

Refined buns and rice are not very suitable for diabetics as a staple food.

If it is ordinary flour made of steamed bread or pure rice made of white rice, are not very recommended as a staple food for diabetics. The two rise in blood sugar speed, once digested and absorbed, to maintain blood sugar stability is also very limited, and will soon reduce blood sugar, the so-called GI value is too high, the saying is "not anti-hunger", this point for diabetic city is very unhealthy, so it is not recommended to eat only this kind of fine rice and noodles staple food.

With a slight variation, whole grain buns and mixed grain rice with potatoes are still recommended.

If you like steamed buns, you can make them with whole wheat flour or add bran flaxseed directly to regular flour, etc. If you make buns, you can also pack in some unsweetened bean paste (don't boil it down too much and have a granular state), which will make the buns nutritionally balanced and delay hunger.

Rice, mixed grain rice is also very good operation. The simplest such as making millet rice two rice, or add oats, quinoa, etc., if you can soak a little bit in advance of the mixed beans to cook rice and add it to simmer together is also very good. Some beans may not be easy to cook, you can use the pressure cooker before stewed some, divided into small packages to freeze, each time you cook rice plus a small package, aspect also healthy, by the way, convenient millet, corn ballast each time to add a little, so you can effectively avoid rice overly fine. In addition can also be based on mixed grain rice, increase potatoes, such as cooking rice and then cut some groundnuts, potatoes or pumpkin and so on, together with the stew, so it is richer, very recommended for diabetics to eat.

Depending on your eating habits, if you like steamed buns, focus on steamed buns, if you like rice, focus on rice, but remember to control your total calorie intake and learn to use the food exchange portion method.

The calories of the three meals in the morning, middle and evening are distributed according to the ratio of 1:1:1 or 3:4:3. In the case of a stable amount of physical activity, the diet should be regular and quantitative, and each meal should be a combination of main and side dishes to ensure that there are sugars, proteins and fats in the meals.

Recipes are diversified to control the total calories, diabetics can eat the same foods as healthy people, there is no need to excessively restrict sugar intake, as well as confine to a single staple food. In general, 200-400 grams of staple food is appropriate.

Daily balanced intake of dairy, grains and cereals, fish, meat and eggs, fruits and fats in a scientific ratio, balanced diet, in order to eat healthy.

Excessive dietary avoidance may, on the contrary, lead to malnutrition due to an unbalanced diet, causing the body's functions to deteriorate, and more likely to make the condition worse.

Buns and rice diabetics can eat, the key is how to eat, eat how much. Diabetic patients daily intake of carbohydrates accounted for about 50% to 60% of the total energy, which indicates that the diabetic's staple food intake is not low, to effectively control blood sugar, not by reducing the amount of meals to achieve.

As long as it is refined white rice refined white flour made of steamed bread and rice, its Gl value ﹥ 80, diabetic patients try to eat as little as possible. To good control of blood sugar, to choose low Gl value of food, and food coarse and fine mix will also play a role in reducing Gl value. Coarse and fine grains are rich in dietary fiber, minerals, vitamins, can reduce the rate of blood sugar. Rice can be added to coarse grains and miscellaneous beans, such as lentil rice, cornmeal porridge, etc.; flour can choose miscellaneous grain flour, whole wheat noodles, buckwheat steamed bread and so on.

The combination of staple foods with other foods can also play a role in lowering the Gl value after. Rice alone Gl value is 83.2, rice and fish together Gl value is 37.0. steamed buns alone Gl value is 88.1, steamed buns and celery scrambled eggs together Gl value is 48.6; three dumplings filled with Gl value is 28; celery pork buns Gl value is 39.1. every meal should be a combination of meat and vegetables, fish, meat, eggs, vegetables, soybeans are indispensable.

Both diabetics and healthy people are advised to eat less refined rice and white flour and choose more coarse grains.

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Sugar lovers should try to follow the conditions of coarse texture, rich in dietary fiber, slower digestion, slower breakdown of glucose, and better stabilization of blood glucose in the choice of staple food.

Rice or, steamed bread or, in fact, the two nutrients are not very different, starch content is about the same, calories are not much difference, but both have a bad place, is more fine, starch is more easily broken down into glucose is absorbed, may be unfavorable to the postprandial blood sugar. Now most of the rice, wheat flour after fine processing, in the process of bran composition of a substantial loss, along with the loss of a large number of dietary fiber, some minerals, vitamins, the loss of a large number of dietary fiber of rice and wheat flour is more conducive to digestion and absorption, it is more likely to allow us to ingest a large amount of glucose in a short period of time.

We can improve on the staple food, sugar lovers can add coarse grains in rice, mixed beans mixed food, increase dietary fiber, legume starch, dietary fiber can slow down the speed of digestion of food, it can slow down the speed of sugar absorption, on the smooth postprandial glucose is beneficial; steamed buns, we can try to buy coarse grain steamed buns, mixed grain steamed buns, or their own home can be used to do some steamed bread with buckwheat flour, wholemeal flour, but also in order to enrich the dietary fiber! intake. Or, sugar lovers can choose oats, millet, purple rice, black rice, brown rice, brown rice, etc. itself less processed, dietary fiber-rich brown rice instead of refined white rice; can also be processed to a small degree, rich in dietary fiber, potato food instead of staple food, these are conducive to smooth postprandial blood sugar.

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There is no need to get particularly entangled in this one. Both rice and pasta made from wheat flour are rich in starch, which eventually breaks down into glucose, and all of them are quite a lot. In addition, since both rice and wheat flour are usually processed finely, the starch breaks down into glucose faster, and it is easy to rise in sugar. If you must compare, pasta made from wheat flour is better for absorption due to smaller particles and has a few more calories than rice, so it would be better for diabetics to eat rice.

But whether it is rice or pasta, it is not recommended to directly consume refined white rice, refined white wheat flour to do the pasta, in order to avoid postprandial glycemic rate is too fast, it is best to add some coarse grains in the rice mixed grains or miscellaneous legumes mixed food, increase dietary fiber and legume starch, which can make digestion and absorption slower, slower absorption of sugar, postprandial blood glucose will be more stable some. You can also replace some of the rice with potatoes, which are also rich in dietary fiber and have a smoother glycemic rate compared to rice. However, it is important to note that potatoes should not be eaten in large quantities, as they are also rich in starch, which can eventually lead to a spike in blood sugar. If it is pasta, it is recommended to use more whole wheat flour, coarse grains made of steamed bread, which can also improve the amount of some dietary fiber, so that the postprandial blood sugar rises more smoothly.

In addition, when you eat the main food do not a hard to eat by the main food, be sure to eat with the meat and vegetables, increase the other components of the intake, do not let the blood sugar rise too fast, it is best to chew slowly, do not eat too fast, so that the blood sugar can rise a little smoother.

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