3 diabetes-friendly drinks that can help combat your sweet tooth, prevent blood sugar spike

If you’re living with a health condition like diabetes, it’s important to make sure that you follow a balanced diet rich in whole foods that provides your body with vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients it needs to function properly. This also means you need to take care of what you drink because beverages can affect your blood sugar levels in many ways. The fact is, many drinks contain extra sugars and carbohydrates that can spike blood sugar or lead to high levels of glucose in the blood suddenly, which can be harmful for diabetics.

Water is, undoubtedly, the healthiest drink, but there are a number of diabetes-friendly beverages that can fit into your diet and satisfy your sweet cravings too. Here are three delicious and nutritious drinks that can help you manage blood sugar levels as well as satisfy your sugar cravings.

Healthy drinks for people with diabetes that fight sugar cravings

Flavour-infused water

Infusing your water with whole fruits, particularly citrus fruits such as lime, lemon, or orange, not only increases your daily water intake, it is also a healthy way to fight your sweet cravings. Adding fruits and vegetables to water can actually add some healthy flavour, which can be beneficial for people with diabetes. For instance, one study suggests that adding aloe vera pulp to water may benefit diabetics, resulting in a reduction of fasting blood glucose (FBG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

Coffee

Research suggests that drinking 2-3 cups of coffee per day may help lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. But, keep in mind that your coffee needs to remain unsweetened, as with tea. You can replace sugar with no- or low-calorie sweeteners to reduce your overall calorie count, which may affect your blood sugar levels.

Herbal tea

This is another healthful option to flavour your water. The fact is that leaves of certain plants while boiling can add both flavour and health benefits to your water. For instance, licorice gives a sweet subtly sweet flavour without affecting or raising blood sugar levels. A 2007 study reported that blood sugar levels fell in rats with diabetes after they took licorice extract. This indicates that licorice may be used as a treatment or as a dietary sweetener for diabetic patients in clinical procedures.

The bottom line is, diabetics can enjoy a wide range of foods and drinks without affecting their blood sugar levels by making smart choices. A nutritious diet combined with regular physical activity and other lifestyle choices can help improve blood sugar control and reduce the risk of complications linked to diabetes.

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This High-Fibre Salad Can Be A Delicious Addition To Your Diabetic Diet

Diabetes has become one of the most lethal lifestyle diseases in our country. In fact, the condition is affecting hundreds and thousands of people globally. If the findings of a recent study by Lancet are to be believed, then by 2030, the number of individuals developing diabetes may increase to 98 million in India alone. Diabetes is a condition where our body fails to process sugar at a regular pace or does not respond to insulin produced, resulting in abnormal fluctuations of blood glucose. Diabetics are always advised to keep a check on their sugar intake. Moreover, they must follow a healthy diet, without adding foods with simple carbs like refined grains, refined cereals, junk foods, etc. to their diet.

Healthy Diabetes Diet

If you are a diabetic, your diet must have plentiful of fibre from pulses, whole grains, seeds and fresh vegetables and fruits. But your diet doesn't have to be dull and neither does it have to be complicated. And to prove this to you, we've got an interesting salad recipe that is surprisingly delicious as well as healthy and can be added to any diabetic diet. The kind that any out and proud foodie will just love.

High-Fibre Jowar Medley Salad Recipe

A bowl of healthy jowar medley salad is not just good for your health but is also a yummy option to include in your diabetic meal plan.Jowar  is a whole grain that is a rich source of fibre, protein, and calcium, all of which make jowar a nourishing grain. When combined with baby corn, bell peppers and zucchini, it enhances the nutrition value even more. It is bright, it is inviting and it is perfect for your diabetic diet.

Various health experts suggest including whole grains for daily consumption, since they are power-packed with essential nutrients that are important for the human body. In fact, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends diabetics to have at least half of their grains as whole grains. Whole grains are a good source of fibre, which is known to delay the absorption of glucose in the blood. Hence, consuming fibre-rich foods reduce the chances of spiking blood sugar levels, which are, without a doubt, risky for diabetics.

Jowar Medley Recipe

Ingredients 

1 Tbsp rice bran oil

• 2 tbsp mustard seeds
• 15-20 curry leaves
• green chillies (de-seeded)
• 1 tbsp ginger
• 2-3 baby corn (diced)
• 1/2 zucchini, chopped
• 1 red pepper, chopped
• 1 yellow pepper, chopped
• to taste pepper
• to taste salt
• 1 cup jowar seeds (sorghum)

How to Make Jowar Medley

• 1.Soak the jowar seeds overnight and boil it in the same water for 15 minutes. (Optional: Boil it with 2 garlic cloves wrapped in a muslin cloth to infuse some flavor.)
• 2.Heat the rice bran oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves, green chilies and ginger.
• 3.When the seeds splutter, add baby corn, after a minute add the the zucchini. Stir fry.
• 4.Add the red peppers and yellow peppers. Stir fry.
• 5.Add the salt , pepper & cooked jowar. Toss well.
• 6.Garnish with coriander leaves.
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DIABETIC FRIENDLY APPLE-OATS PUDDING

INGREDIENTS
 apple 2 peel and grate in  little water or else it turns brown
oats roasted and powdered 2 tbsp
milk  2 cups
milk pdr.  2 tbsp
cardamom pdr. 1/2 tsp
cashew nuts 1 tbsp chopped and or other nuts of your choice
raisins 1 tbsp  or you may add chopped dates when you cook apple
ghee 1 tsp to roast nuts and raisins

METHOD
in one pan, add roughly 1/2 cup milk, add the apple grated along the water, stir and cook on low flame covered stirring from time to time, till all the liquid evaporates and apple is also cooked, remove, slowly add the milk pdr, while stirring well
in another heavy pan or non-stick pan, boil rest of the milk, on low flame till it gets reduced to roughly half, add the powdered oats, then add the cooked apple to which milk powder is added, keep stirring till it gets thick, add cardamom powder and half of the roasted nuts and raisins, keeping rest for garnishing. It can be served hot or cold.
This can be safely given to diabetes and those who are calorie conscious, as it contains no sugar, some carbs, protein, fibre from fruits, raisin and oats. It is very mildly sweet with natural sweetness from fruits and milk. So, those who have too sweet tooth may need to add sugar, but I'm sure that once you try this, you'll give up your craving for more sugar.

 

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