Keeping your blood sugar levels as stable and constant as possible is quite essential when you are diabetic. Good and effective blood sugar control can help you when it comes to preventing or slowing the progression of a number of the major medical complications of diabetes. Therefore, it is very important for you to avoid or minimize diets that can lead to high blood sugar.

Bananas are very high in both sugar and carbs (the major nutrients that raise blood sugar levels), even though they are a healthy fruit.
Therefore, should you be taking bananas if you are diabetic? How do this healthy fruit affect your blood sugar?

[b][/b]Bananas Have Carbs, Which Cause Blood Sugar to Rise

Being aware of the quantity and type of carbs in your diabetic diet is pretty important if you have diabetes. This is due to the fact that carbs cause your blood sugar level to rise more than other nutrients, meaning that they can affect your blood sugar control tremendously.
The body produces insulin in people who are non-diabetic when blood sugar rises. It helps the body to remove sugar out of the blood into the cells where it is stored or used. But in diabetics, this process does not work as it should. Rather, it is either that the cells are resistant to the insulin so produced or the body doesn't produce sufficient insulin.

If the situation is not properly managed, this can cause high carb foods, leading to high blood sugar spikes or constantly high blood sugar levels, which are both bad for your health.

It is noteworthy that 93 percent of the calories in bananas are from carbs and they are in form of fiber, starch, and sugar. A single medium-sized banana has 6 grams of starch and 14 grams of sugar.

Bananas Also Have Fiber, Which May Decrease Blood Sugar Spikes

A medium-sized banana has 3 grams of fiber, in addition to sugar and starch. Owing to the potential health benefits of dietary fiber, everybody, including those who are diabetic should eat sufficient amounts of it.

Nevertheless, fiber is particularly essential for those who are living with diabetes because it will slow the absorption and digestion of carbs. This can eventually decrease blood sugar spikes and boost the general blood sugar control.
Looking at the Glycemic Index (GI) of a carb-containing food is a method of determining how such food will affect blood sugars. Glycemic Index ranks foods depending on how much and how fast they increase blood sugar levels.

The Glycemic Index scores run from 0 to 100 under the classifications below:

 High GI: 70 to 100
 Medium GI: 55 to 69
 Low GI: 55 or Less

Diabetic diets that are based on low-GI foods are considered to be especially good for those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This is due to the fact that that low-GI foods are absorbed more slowly and lead to a steadier increase in blood sugar levels, instead of large spikes.
In general, bananas score between low and medium on the GI scale (within the range of 42 to 62, based on the ripeness).

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