Science | Can goji berry raise blood sugar? Can diabetics eat it?

For a long time, we’ve had a lot of inquiries from people with diabetes, such as:

Goji berries taste very sweet, is it high in sugar?

Can goji berry polysaccharide raise sugar? Can you eat it?

It is said that goji berry can help lower blood sugar, is it true?

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This time, we’ll answer to the question that “whether diabetes can eat wolfberry”,  and eliminate your confusion once and for all.

Question 1: Goji berries are sweet. Are they high in sugar?

taste is sweet or not, mainly depends on the content of simple sugars (fructose and glucose), the higher it contents, the sweeter it tastes, the lower the content, the less sweet it feels.

According to the origin, there are Ningxia goji berry, Qinghai goji berry, Gansu goji berry, etc., different origin, different kinds of wolfberry sugar content is not the same. High simple sugar content, known as the consumption of wolfberry, high sweetness, good taste, more suitable for daily soup, cooking, diabetes careful eating.

“Zhongning Wolfberry” monosaccharides are lower than other areas, so it tastes not very sweet, and even slightly bitter after taste, known as medicinal goji berry, more recommended for diabetic consumption.

Question 2: Will sugar rise? Can it lower blood sugar?

The content of goji berry polysaccharide in Zhongning goji berry is high. A large number of research datas have been confirmed that this complex polysaccharide is not less likely to cause blood sugar fluctuation, but also can promote the release of insulin by islet cells to help reduce blood sugar.

Many hypoglycemic drugs contain goji berry extract, so in a stable state of blood sugar, appropriate intake of goji juice is beneficial to the health of diabetic people.

Question 3: Which type of diabetic can’t eat goji berries?

If blood sugar instability, cold, body inflammation, it should not be eaten.

Goji berry or juice is not drug, with not the effect of drugs, it can not replace drugs, only be used as a nutritional supplement for diabetic people, if the blood sugar is high for a long time, then need for regular oral hypoglycemic drugs.

Question 4: Can people with diabetes eat goji berries?

If the recent blood sugar is stable within 7, and people with good sugar control eating habits can drink goji juice between meals in the morning and afternoon, and drink up to 50ml a day.