. At the same time, many diabetic “sugar friends” and people who want to lose weight choose sugar-free foods because of their needs for sugar control, low sugar, and sugar-free. So can diabetic patients eat sugar-free foods at will?
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Let’s first understand what sugar-free foods are. Sugar-free foods refer to sweet foods that cannot be added with sucrose and sugars from starch hydrolysates, such as glucose, fructose, maltose, and fructose syrup, but contain sugar substitutes, such as sugar alcohols or oligosaccharides and other sweeteners, including xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, and mannitol. The sugar alcohols or oligosaccharides used in sugar-free foods are not easily absorbed by the human body and can replace sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, etc. They have the sweetness of sugar but not the energy of sugar. Because they do not increase blood sugar, they are widely used in diabetes-specific foods and foods that prevent tooth decay and obesity.
However, this does not mean that diabetic patients can eat sugar-free foods at will. There are three reasons:
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Sugar-free foods can also affect blood sugar
Most sugar-free products in my country use high-efficiency sweeteners, which are hundreds of times sweeter than sucrose. So in the original formula, 100 grams of product should add 40 grams of sucrose, but now only a few grams of sweetener is enough. What should be used to make up the volume? Generally speaking, most of the fillings are starch, starch hydrolysate or dextrin, which are decomposed in the body to produce glucose, and have a significant impact on blood sugar.
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There are all kinds of fake sugar-free foods on the market
Some sugar-free foods do not add sucrose, but add white sugar or maltose. White sugar and sucrose belong to the same kind of sugar, but they are said differently. Some even use edible sugar and saccharin instead of sucrose to deceive everyone. Such sugar-free foods are not truly “sugar-free”. We are all deceived by its labels.
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Don’t eat too much sugar-free food
Common sweeteners used in sugar-free food processing include synthetic sweeteners, sugar alcohol sweeteners, non-sugar natural sweeteners, and amino acid derivative sweeteners. Excessive consumption of foods containing sweeteners may cause adverse reactions such as diarrhea and vomiting.
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Therefore, we must keep our eyes open and take a good look at the ingredient list on the label to see if it contains words such as dextrin, maltose, starch syrup, and corn syrup. Products containing oligosaccharides and sugar alcohols can be given priority, and products containing aspartame, cyclamate, acesulfame potassium and other sweeteners should be chosen as little as possible. In short, wise consumers should never indulge themselves in eating foods and drinks that are not of high nutritional value just because a certain food is marked “sugar-free”.
