Pumpkin can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from food irritation and promote the healing of ulcer surface, so it is more suitable for those patients with gastric diseases with erosion or ulcer. Pumpkin itself can also promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion. The calorie per 100g pumpkin is 22kcal, and the sugar content is 4.5g, which is not too much from this point of view, but let's look at the second index: the GI value of pumpkin is 75, which belongs to the food with high glycemic index, indicating that the sugar can be absorbed quickly after the pumpkin enters the stomach, resulting in large blood sugar fluctuations.

Pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, cobalt, pectin and so on. It is beneficial to lower blood sugar, and is also considered to be the reason why pumpkin helps to stabilize blood sugar in medicine. Some hypoglycemic agents extract cobalt from pumpkin to make hypoglycemic agents. Healthy people's islets can secrete insulin normally to control elevated blood sugar, so blood sugar fluctuates less. However, there are problems in insulin secretion function of islet in diabetic patients. If you eat more, exercise less and take hypoglycemic drugs in time, your blood sugar may be higher than normal.

Blood sugar refers to glucose contained in blood, which plays an important role in human health. Blood sugar concentration is influenced by diet, which involves two important parameters of food. However, the active ingredients in the pumpkin on the dining table are too low to reach the dosage that can control blood sugar, and the content of active substances in different varieties of pumpkin is also quite different. At present, there is no epidemiological data to verify that pumpkin can control human blood sugar.

The GI of pumpkin is 75, and that of rice is 83, which seems a little similar. It can be said that GI is a little high, which belongs to the upper limit of medium GI (55~75). But pumpkin can also tonify middle energizer, reduce blood fat, clear away heat and toxic materials, protect gastric mucosa and help digestion. It is suitable for spleen deficiency and malnutrition. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, pumpkin belongs to yellow food and has a good spleen-strengthening effect.