Contents:
- Medical Video: Top 7 tips, How To Lower Blood Sugar Naturally?
- Get to know various types of sugar
- Does cooling food reduce sugar content?
- What are the benefits of starch resistant to health?
Medical Video: Top 7 tips, How To Lower Blood Sugar Naturally?
Most Indonesians think that you haven't eaten, if you haven't included rice in your food menu. Pasta, potatoes and rice are examples of carbohydrates that can increase sugar in the blood when destroyed in the human digestive system. However, these foods are not recommended for some people who have diseases such as diabetes. However, lately there has been an assumption that cooling food can reduce sugar levels in it. Is that true?
Get to know various types of sugar
As we all know, sugar is the primary energy source of the human body. The simplest form of sugar is monosaccharide, which consists of fructose, galactose and glucose. Glucose is the most important form of sugar for the human body. This is because in addition to acting as a source of energy, glucose is also the content of the majority of food that is around you.
Thousands of glucose joined together to form a polysaccharide, or commonly known as starch. Starch is commonly found in plants. That's why you find it easier to find starch in foods derived from plants such as potatoes, rice, and corn.
When your digestive enzymes destroy starch, the starch will be transformed back into glucose for the body's needs. Starch is one form of carbohydrate. But excessive consumption of carbohydrates will actually cause obesity and even diabetes.
Does cooling food reduce sugar content?
Research conducted by a nutritionist from the University of Surrey named Denise Robetson in recent years, revealed that cooling food turned out to be able to change the content of these foods which were originally starch, into resistant starch.
Resistant starch is the starch content that undergoes a cooling process so that it undergoes structural changes. This causes the human digestive system to experience difficulty in digesting it, and the sugar contained in it can also not be absorbed into the blood. This condition also causes the calories produced by these refrigerated foods to be 60 percent smaller than the original calories.
In other words, cooling food can help reduce the increase in blood sugar by reducing calories or sugar content.
What are the benefits of starch resistant to health?
Other research from Dr. Robertson successfully revealed that this resistant starch has several health benefits, including:
- Can help reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes, as well as the impact for people with type 2 diabetes itself.
- Resistant starch can increase the fiber content in your body without reducing the taste, shape, or presentation that was originally in the form of ordinary starch.
However, further research is still needed if you want to warm up the refrigerated food.
