Why pumpkin is good for diabetic persons.

I came across this interesting post.

Glycemic Index: Do You Really Understand It?

For example it explains why Pumpkin is good for diabetic persons. Its a rare combination which can satisfy the normal sugar crave of diabetic  person without increasing glucose level.

The Glycemic Load

The GL gives people the ability to measure both the type and the amount of carbohydrate in food, giving an indication on how it acts on their blood sugar. The GI is great, but it doesn’t take into account the fact that some foods have a lot more carbohydrate in them than others. A good example is pumpkin. It has a GI of 75, which is very high. A typical 80-gram serving of pumpkin (which is just a few pieces) contains 4-grams of carbohydrate.

So to get the GL…you multiply the GI by the amount of Carbohydrate in the serving, and divide it by 100.

(75*4)/100 = 3

That is a very low GL. You would have to eat a truckload of pumpkin for it to have any effect at all on your blood sugar.

To Add to it from wikipedia about Pumpkin:
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Phytochemical research

Preliminary research indicates that phytochemicals found in pumpkin may favorably affect insulin and glucose levels in laboratory diabetes models.^[27] Two compounds isolated from pumpkin paste and then fed daily to diabetic rats over six weeks, trigonelline and nicotinic acid, caused significant reductions in blood glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides, indicating improvement in the diabetic condition.^[28]

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