What to eat for pregnant women with high sugar levels

Pregnant women must pay attention to their dietary nutrition intake during pregnancy. Balanced nutrition every day is good for fetal development. Some pregnant women with high sugar levels must be careful not to eat high-sugar foods and must pay attention to a low-sugar diet. However, some pregnant women do not know what low-sugar foods to eat every day, and do not know how to eat healthily. What is suitable for pregnant women with high sugar levels to eat? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Oats

Oatmeal is a low-calorie food that easily makes you feel full after eating. Oatmeal is also rich in dietary fiber, a substance that has many biological effects that are beneficial to health. It can reduce low-density lipoprotein triglycerides, promote cholesterol excretion, and prevent and treat hyperglycemia during pregnancy.

Recommended recipe: Oatmeal and double rice porridge

Prepare ingredients: 80g oats, 80g millet, 80g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of wolfberry, appropriate amount of barley.

1. Wash glutinous rice and oatmeal and soak them in cold water for 30 minutes. After soaking, it is easy to cook and saves time. Second, the porridge tastes better.

2. Add water to a cooking pot and cook glutinous rice and oatmeal. Bring to a boil then simmer over low heat. Stir from time to time.

3. After 15 minutes, wash the millet and put it into the pot to cook. Stir the porridge from time to time and add wolfberry after it is cooked. Turn off the heat and simmer for 5-6 minutes, then serve.

2. Buckwheat

Buckwheat is rich in vitamin E and soluble dietary fiber, as well as niacin and rutin (rutin). Rutin can lower blood lipids and cholesterol, soften blood vessels, protect eyesight and prevent cerebral hemorrhage. Certain flavonoids in buckwheat also have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects. Therefore, buckwheat is also known as "anti-inflammatory food". In addition, these ingredients also have the effect of lowering blood sugar.

Recommended recipe: Pumpkin buckwheat porridge

Prepare ingredients: 50 grams each of buckwheat rice and pumpkin, 25 grams of rice, and 5 grams of lotus seeds.

1. Peel and seed the pumpkin, wash and cut into small dices; wash the lotus seeds; wash the buckwheat and rice. Soak buckwheat in water for 2 hours.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add buckwheat, rice, lotus seeds and appropriate amount of water and boil.

3. Turn to low heat and simmer until the buckwheat rice and rice are 80% cooked. Add the diced pumpkin and cook until the porridge is thick, the rice is rotten, and the pumpkin is cooked through. Turn off the heat.

3. Xiaomi

The protein content in millet is higher than that in rice, and the iron content in millet is very high. Adding some millet to the staple food during pregnancy can help prevent anemia during pregnancy. Alternating or mixing millet with other coarse grains (such as buckwheat noodles, oats, etc.) can also reduce the rate of blood sugar rise.

Recommended method: Millet and sweet potato porridge

Prepare ingredients: 20 grams of sweet potato, 90 grams of millet, and 4 grams of white sugar.

1. Peel and clean the sweet potatoes, then cut into small pieces; soak and clean the millet.

2. Place the pot on the fire, pour in water, put in millet, and cook over high heat until the rice grains burst.

3. Add sweet potatoes and cook over low heat until the porridge becomes thick, then add sugar to taste.

4. Corn

Corn is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid, which contains more than 60%. It works synergistically with vitamin E in corn germ to effectively lower blood cholesterol concentration and prevent it from depositing in blood vessel walls. The sugar content in old corn is 2.3% lower than that in ordinary rice, while the crude fiber content is almost 9 times that of rice, which are all beneficial in lowering blood sugar levels after meals. Therefore, eating corn regularly has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

Recommended recipe: Corn and vegetable cubes

Prepare ingredients: 200g corn, 1 carrot, 1 green bamboo shoot, appropriate amount of cooking oil, salt, garlic, and chicken essence.

1. Peel the carrots, wash and cut into small dices. Peel the lettuce, wash and cut into small dices. Peel the garlic and chop it for later use.

2. Boil a pot of water, put in the corn kernels and blanch them until cooked, then remove and set aside.

3. Blanch the diced carrots and lettuce separately, put the wok on the heat, add cooking oil and heat up the minced garlic.

4. Add corn kernels, diced carrots and diced lettuce and stir-fry. Add salt and chicken essence and stir-fry evenly before turning off the heat and serving.

5. Beans

Pregnant women with high blood sugar can eat some beans in moderation. Beans are rich in high fiber and high protein, and contain a variety of essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by the human body. They also have a low glycemic index, which can delay the body's absorption of sugar and help lower blood sugar.

Recommended recipe: Black bean porridge

Prepare ingredients: 100g black rice, 50g black beans, 100g red beans, 100g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of water, appropriate amount of lotus seeds, appropriate amount of coix seeds.

1. Prepare red beans, black beans, black rice and coix seeds, put them in a bowl and soak them in cold water overnight.

2. Bring the water in the pot to a boil, put the above ingredients into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer.

3. At this time, use the time while cooking black rice and black beans to soak the glutinous rice. Boil it for about an hour. When it is basically cooked and bloomed, you can add the glutinous rice.

4. Put the glutinous rice into the pot and continue to simmer on low heat. Stir it with a spoon every 5 minutes because the bottom may get burnt if the heat is too low.

5. After about 40 minutes, add the lotus seeds and stew for about 30 minutes. Finally, cook everything over high heat for one minute and then turn off the heat.