Diabetics and Fruit Juices
Ideally, diabetics should eat fresh fruit. However, they still need to be careful when drinking fruit juices and smoothies. This is ideally something that should be avoided, or at least reduced.
Fruit juices and smoothies have most of their fibrous materials removed, or they have already been broken down. This makes it very easy for a diabetic person to drink large quantities in a short amount of time, consuming extra calories and carbs. This simply means that fruit juices and smoothies are less beneficial to the body compared to the whole fruit, since the fiber is less intact.
The key to a good diabetic diet (and a good weight loss diet), is to eat high-fiber foods. And what distinguishes healthy carbohydrates from other carbohydrates is the presence of dietary fiber. Avocados, raspberries and pears are just some fruits that are high in fiber.
A high-fiber diet containing at least 25-35g of fiber per day is essential for health and is important for diabetics, as fiber slows the absorption of all sugars in your bloodstream. This includes naturally-formed sugars found in fruits and starches, and any refined sugar that may be part of the foods we consume.
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