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What are the sugar-free foods? Are these foods really sugar free?
In recent years, the trend of healthy eating has intensified, and sugar-free foods have become more and more popular in the market. For diabetics, not all products labeled as "sugar-free food" are really suitable. Let's analyze and recommend sugar-free foods:

1. staple food

Refers to a large number of sugar-free cakes, moon cakes and other rice flour products on the market. When eating, it should be noted that if there are sugar-free cakes in the normal diabetic diet every day, they should be included in the staple food. Because this kind of cake only adds the taste of sweets, and it is made of flour itself. If it is not controlled, a large amount of food will still lead to an increase in blood sugar.

2. Drinks and cold drinks

Such as sugar-free ice cream, sugar-free drinks or pure juice. You should also pay attention to eating sugar-free yogurt or ice cream, because it contains dairy products, so it should be included in the dairy products in your daily diet. However, for sugar-free drinks with aspartame as sweetener, diabetics can safely eat them.

3. Dairy products

Pay attention to the application of sugar-free milk powder and chocolate. According to the calculation of ordinary dairy products, the total daily intake accounts for 10%- 15% of the total calories.

4. Fruit candy

Made of sweetener, it can adjust various tastes and increase the fun of life. However, it should be noted that when hypoglycemia occurs, these sugars will not raise blood sugar, so patients must not supplement these sweets at this time, but should immediately eat ordinary sweets or even a little staple food.

5. Sugar-free gum

Daily use can remove the odor in the mouth, and more importantly, it can protect oral hygiene and prevent dental caries and tooth loss.

6. Cooking sugar

The main ingredients are aspartame and protein sugar products, which can be added to various beverages, fruit juice, milk and soybean milk to improve sweetness.

7.sugar-free medicated diet

Food prepared with the theory of regulating the balance of the body in traditional Chinese medicine may have certain effects. But because its main ingredient is staple food or starch, we should be careful not to eat too much without restriction.

According to the general concept of European countries, sugar-free foods cannot contain deer sugar and sugar in starch hydrolysate, including glucose, maltose, fructose, starch sugar vegetables, glucose racks, fructose syrup and so on. However, it must contain substitutes equivalent to sugar, and sweeteners such as sugar alcohols or oligosaccharides that do not raise blood sugar are generally used.

The so-called "sugar-free food" should be called "sucrose-free products" because the original sugar content in the so-called "sugar-free food" on the market still exists. For example, "sugar-free milk powder" is just not mixed with sucrose, but the original lactose in milk powder has not been reduced, and lactose can still be decomposed into glucose and galactose after digestion. Another example is "sugar-free cake" and "sugar-free dumplings", just cakes and dumplings without sucrose. After being digested, the flour used to make cakes and jiaozi will still decompose into glucose. Therefore, diabetic patients should not regard the word "sugar-free" as "sugar-free" food, but should carefully look at the ingredients in the food, because lactose in milk and starch in food will eventually be converted into glucose, so "sugar-free food" can not really be used to treat diabetes. As for some businesses changing this "sugar-free" food into "hypoglycemic" food, it is completely false and deceptive. Please sugar friends can understand clearly!