Is there sugar in honey, what and how much? Honey increases blood sugar or not? Can diabetics be honey with high sugar?

From this article you will find out what honey consists of, and whether it can eat with diabetes.

People with diabetes also sometimes want sweet diabetes, but sugar is the main enemy of the diabetic. If sugar is impossible, can you be honey for diabetes? What is honey made of? Is it harmful as sugar? And is it possible at all diabetics? Let's try to understand this issue in this article.

Honey for diabetes: what sugar is there?

Sugar consists completely of sucrose. In order for the sucrose to learn, at first our body with the help of insulin produced by the pancreas, translates it into glucose and fructose, and only then absorbs.

The composition of the honey is as follows:

• Up to 38% fructose
• Up to 31% glucose
• 15-20% of water
• Up to 6% Maltose (malt sugar)
• Up to 4% sucrose
• Up to 3% of other sugars (highest oligosis, raffinosis, melicitosis, tragalosis)
• Up to 1% of vitamins (groups B: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12; C, H, K, E) and Minerals (potassium, boron, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, chromium and many more minerals, including and so rare as gold)

Attention. Most of the beneficial substances in dark honey.

By the composition of honey, we see that sucrose has a small amount in it, which means that insulin needs a little, and the pancreas will not be overloaded with work. Well, for the absorption of glucose and fructose, as far as we remember, insulin is not needed. As you can see, honey for diabetes is more useful than sugar.

Attention. In Medaa there is such a trace element as chrome, which improves the functioning of the pancreas and the production of insulin.

Is it possible to eat honey for diabetes?

We have already found out that honey is absorbed by the body much easier than sugar. For digestion of honey, even insulin is not needed - glucose immediately enters the bloodstream. Diabetics, do not rush to rejoice - insulin is still needed, but for other purposes: for the distribution of glucose from the blood to the internal organs that will require it.

Honey for diabetes of the 1st and 2nd type, a little, you can eat, but you need to choose such varieties where there are more fructose than glucose:

• Acacia, it is with a light flower aroma
• Brown, bitter to taste, with a specific taste
• Linden, with light bitterness, is also useful with colds
• Buckwheat is dark
• Obstoy
• Cyprus
• Cornflower
• From honeycombs, along with wax located in honeycombs, glucose is more slowly absorbed into the bloodstream

Attention. Honey, which quickly crystallizes is rich in glucose, and fructose in it is smaller. Honey, rich in fructose, can be stored in a liquid state for 1-2 years.

This is interesting. In the northern regions of Russia, in honey there are more fructose, in the southern - glucose.

In what situations can you eat a little honey in diabetes?

There are cases in life when honey for diabetes is simply necessary. These are the following points:

• With bouts of hypoglycemia (lack of blood glucose) - it can come after enhanced physical exercises
• If you need to stop the development of harmful fungi in the body (brucellosis, dysentery, anthrax, paratyphus and typhoid)
• If there are wounds and sores on the mucosa, for example, in the mouth
• If you have to take a lot of drugs, honey reduces their side effects
• To strengthen immunity, nervous and circulatory systems
• To improve the work of the stomach and intestines, especially with diseases of these organs

In what quantity can you eat honey for type 1 diabetes?

In diabetics of the 1st type, the pancreas does not produce insulin. Every day, suffering from this type of diabetes, introduce insulin themselves. They need to strictly calculate the number of carbohydrates coming from food. Carbohydrates are measured in bread units, abbreviated hee.

Here are some products in hee units. 1he corresponds:

• 12 g of honey or incomplete tablespoon
• Bread slice in 20-25 g
• Half of the buns
• Paul pies with meat
• 2 tbsp. l. any porridge, pasta or potato puree
• 1 Average potatoes, cooked "in the uniform"
• Averend in the size of the cutlet
• 3-4 dumplings
• 2-3 dumplings with cottage cheese
• 1 average cheesecake
• Small portion (12 slices) Free potatoes
• 1.5 cups of tomato juice
• 1 cup of milk, kefir or kvass
• 1 average apple
• 12 pcs. cherries
• 200 g of strawberries or raspberries
• 20 g of dried fruits

To use with the benefit of 1he, you need to introduce 1.4 units of insulin into the body. It is permissible to eat 20-25h per day.

Having calculated the amount of carbohydrates for the whole day, so decide how much you can eat on the day of honey in diabetes, or is not planned on this day if you want your body to treat your body, and not cripple.

In what quantity is it possible, or not, is there honey for type 2 diabetes?

With type 2 diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin, but the body does not perceive it.

What needs to be done, and is it possible to eat honey for type 2 diabetes?

• You can or you can’t or honey - the doctor decides. First, you need to check the level of glucose in the blood after an eaten spoon of honey. There are cases that hyperglycemia (glucose of blood) comes from honey in the patient, then honey cannot be eaten at all.
• Honey cannot be on an empty stomach, but only after the main food, so it is more slowly absorbed.
• Honey cannot be sleeping at night, we sleep at night, which means that they are not involved in either physical or mental work, and glucose is delayed in the blood.
• Patients with diabetes need to eat, given the glycemic index (abbreviated gi) of the product. The glycemic index shows the speed at which glucose in the blood is absorbed. Honey has a high glycemic index - 90, and it can be no more than 1 tsp. in a day.
• Eat more products with low GI, with medium - sometimes, and with high - it is forbidden.

So, now we know that honey for diabetes must be limited, and not consumed more than 1 tsp.

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