5 Delicious Fruits You Can Eat With Diabetes (Part 2)

This is the final part of a two part series specializing on how you can supplement your regular diabetes treatment by incorporating certain fruits to your overall diet. Although these fruits are amazing, they’re not meant to replace the treatment recommended by your doctor. They’re just an additional tool to help regulate your blood sugar levels and improve your health. See part 1 for the first 5 delicious fruits here.

Previously, we talked about the dangers of leaving diabetes undiagnosed or untreated.

So to end on a brighter note, here’s how amazing you’ll feel once you begin adopting a healthy lifestyle and diet.

You’ll soon notice that:

– You’ll begin to have more levels of energy.

– Feel less tired and thirsty.

– You’ll need to go to the bathroom less frequently.

– You’ll also start healing faster because your immune system will not be stressed out.

– You’ll be less vulnerable to infections on your skin.

So we now continue our list with these amazing fruits:

Part 2 of Fruits to Eat with Diabetes

6. Guava

Guava can actually serve two functions when it comes to diabetes. It can be a preventative measure to reduce your chances of developing diabetes if you drink a guava leaf tea everyday.

If you’re already diagnosed, don’t panic! With its high amount of fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and lycopene, guavas can help your body regulate its blood sugar levels.

7. Oranges

Everyone knows that oranges are packed with vitamin C. But did you know they can also help you cope with diabetes with their low glycemic levels?

Low glycemic foods slowly increase your blood sugar level. Instead of the rollercoaster ride of high and low blood sugar levels; you’ll be able to enjoy a steady flow of energy without the inevitable sugar crash.

More importantly, oranges can help keep your body weight within a healthy body mass index by helping your digestive function properly with its amazing amount of fiber.

Eat your oranges; orange juice lacks the fiber offered by a real orange.

8. Strawberries

Strawberries can help you supplement your diabetes treatment by focusing on one delicate aspect of the disease. In this case, it’s your dangerous levels of cholesterol that accompany the disease.

Antioxidants in strawberries help reduce your bad LDL cholesterol levels as they increase your overall good HDL cholesterol levels. It almost sounds too good to be true right?

Finally, strawberries are also an amazing fruit to hold off hunger, keep you energized, and keep your blood sugar levels steady.

9. Grapefruit

This fruit, with its truly unique taste, is the American Diabetes Association’s go-to super food.

Why?

Because it contains an extraordinarily healthy amount of high soluble fiber and vitamin C with an extremely low glycemic level index.

By eating half a grapefruit a day you’ll be able to help your body achieve healthy blood sugar levels without any extreme highs or lows.

And like oranges, make sure you eat your grapefruits.

10. Kiwi

Eating one kiwi a day will help you regulate your blood sugar levels and offer you the healthiest alternative to snacks with high amounts of fat or sugar.

How?

First of all, with its low levels of carbohydrates and high yield of fiber, kiwis are the ideal fruit to controlling your blood sugar levels and lowering your cholesterol simultaneously.

Finally, kiwis can pack a serious load of vitamin A, C, and E that can potentially protect your body from the aging damage caused by free radicals.