If it is used as a staple food, it can usually be mixed with other grains such as rice, oats, Redmi, mung beans, red beans and coix seed to make miscellaneous grains rice. There are so many varieties that you can freely match them according to your own taste. For miscellaneous grains rice, we actually advocate that diabetics eat it. Because it contains enough dietary fiber, it can delay the absorption of sugar.
In the north of China, we also use millet flour as the staple food to make pancakes, or use other grains to make pancakes, which is also one of the very good pasta.
The calorie of millet porridge is 46 kilocalories. Although the calories are relatively low, the glycemic index is relatively good because of its liquid diet. Therefore, for diabetics who can eat normally, we do not recommend that you drink porridge.
So can diabetics drink millet porridge?
If your blood sugar is not up to standard recently and fluctuates greatly, it is not recommended to drink pure millet porridge. The GI value of millet porridge is between 79 and 93, which is related to soaking time and cooking time. The longer the soaking and cooking time, the greater the impact on your blood sugar.
If your blood sugar is relatively stable recently, and you especially want to eat some millet, it is recommended to choose some non-sticky millet, just wash it without soaking, and add other miscellaneous grains (oats, etc.). ) cook together. Try not to cook for too long, and keep the taste of some raw materials. You can drink some millet porridge in moderation.
Another suggestion for diabetics to eat millet is actually steamed millet or millet miscellaneous grains rice. Of course, it is not recommended to steam for too long without soaking, so the GI value of steamed millet is between 64-7 1 (the GI of soaked millet is about 79, and that of rice is about 90).
This is enough to show that the change value of glycemic index of millet porridge is relatively greatly influenced by varieties, soaking or not, and boiling time. For diabetics, you can choose millet, millet miscellaneous grains rice or millet miscellaneous grains porridge, and pay attention to the cooking time and collocation. Pure millet porridge is not suitable, because it is soft and rotten, and the blood sugar reaction is relatively large.
So since the sugar content of millet is so high, why can diabetics still eat it?
Even if millet has no special significance in promoting blood sugar control, it will not get worse. At the same time, millet has higher nutritional value than rice. In the case of the same blood sugar reaction, it is also recommended to use millet instead of rice.
The nutrients such as carotene, vitamin B, vitamin E, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc and selenium in millet are actually higher than those in rice.
It is more meaningful for diabetics to supplement nutrition and promote their own health, especially for diabetics who lack vitamin B group and diabetics with hypertension.
But some elderly people with poor physique can eat it. If they have just finished gastrointestinal surgery and need to take a stomach tube to eat, as a transition to normal diet, they can drink some millet porridge. However, the whole treatment plan needs to be adjusted, because blood sugar rises rapidly, and drugs to control postprandial blood sugar need to be added quickly.
Diet needs to be regularly and quantitatively. For example, patients who eat through a stomach tube may eat different foods for four hours, but it is best to eat different foods regularly at each time. For example, eat millet gruel at 6 o'clock in the morning and try to eat millet gruel at this time tomorrow, so that doctors can eat and use different amounts of drugs according to the law to keep blood sugar stable.