Pumpkin has a glycemic index of 75, which belongs to high glycemic index food, especially the old pumpkin has a higher sugar content. People with diabetes should be careful not to eat too much, and eat pumpkin to reduce the amount of staple food.

Pumpkin has a low carbohydrate content, but it tastes sweet, which is different from ordinary vegetables. Pumpkin carbohydrate consists of fructose, glucose, starch and other components, among which fructose accounts for the largest proportion, and fructose in carbon water is the sweetest, and its sweetness is about three times that of glucose.

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Pumpkin has four health benefits:

1, pumpkin for nourishing the stomach: pumpkin is also a good food for nourishing the stomach. Pumpkin is rich in provitamin A, which can participate in the normal metabolism of gastric epithelial tissue, protect gastric mucosa and promote ulcer healing. Pectin can protect the digestive tract from the stimulation of coarse food and prevent gastritis and gastric ulcer; Mannitol in pumpkin has laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body and prevent colon cancer.

2. Pumpkin protects kidney: Eating pumpkin has many benefits. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, pumpkin has the functions of tonifying middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects, lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst. Modern medical research has proved that pectin in pumpkin can help people with impaired liver and kidney function to enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.

3, pumpkin and diabetes: pumpkin is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E, which can promote insulin secretion; Pectin in pumpkin can delay the emptying of food and the absorption of sugar in intestine, thus controlling the increase of blood sugar. In addition, the mineral cobalt contained in pumpkin is necessary for insulin cells to synthesize insulin. Therefore, diabetics should eat some food made of pumpkin properly.

4. Pay attention to the collocation of eating pumpkin: eat pumpkin and mung bean together to effectively lower blood sugar. Pumpkin is rich in pectin, which can regulate the stomach's absorption of food, reduce or delay the intestinal absorption of glucose and cholesterol, and effectively lower blood sugar. But eating pumpkin and mutton together is easy to cause bloating and constipation; Pumpkin can't replenish qi, mutton is hot and can replenish deficiency. Eating together will block the qi of the gastrointestinal tract and cause diseases such as abdominal distension and constipation.

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