What traditional food to eat on the Tanabata Festival Tanabata Festival to eat chocolate?

It's that time of year again, Valentine's Day, when you send chocolates to express your feelings in a romantic way.

So, can diabetics also enjoy chocolates?

In fact, diabetics can eat any food, as long as the replacement is done.

Because chocolate contains cocoa butter, if you don't replace the calories from the fat with what you eat on a regular basis, even unsweetened dark chocolate will make you gain weight, which in turn affects your blood sugar control.

Diabetics are more prone to hypoglycemia when they are on a date, due to their higher activity levels.

If you experience panic, sweating, and a particularly strong sense of hunger, you can eat a moderate amount of candy or chocolate to ease the symptoms of hypoglycemia.

Overall, appropriate intake of chocolate is good for health, but scientific selection is important.

The chocolates sold on the market are dark chocolate, white chocolate and milk chocolate, which are formulated with different ingredients.

Milk chocolate consists of cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, sugar, milk powder, flavors and fragrances;

Black chocolate consists of cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, sugar, flavors and fragrances;

White chocolate consists of cocoa butter, sugar, milk powder, flavors and fragrances;

Individual white chocolate will be a small amount of cocoa liquor added to different brands and types of chocolate.

The proportion of each ingredient in different types of chocolate varies, and so does the flavor.

It is recommended that sugar lovers give preference to chocolates that contain less sugar and pay attention to the fat content.

Dark chocolate is the best choice, the higher the purity of the cocoa powder content, the higher the content of polyphenolic antioxidants, but the taste is bitter, so the chocolate will generally add a certain amount of sugar, too much sugar (some products up to 50%) is not healthy, it can be said that a large number of sugar offset the health benefits of cocoa, especially for diabetic patients, it will also cause blood sugar fluctuations that outweigh the benefits.

So, when choosing chocolate for people with diabetes, it's important to look at the carbohydrate content in the ingredient list.

The ingredient list also needs to be gone over, and it is not advisable to choose chocolates that have white sugar in the first place.

If you want to send diabetic patients chocolate, it is recommended to choose dark chocolate, the proportion of moderate, send love and romance, but also send health.

On Valentine's Day, people with diabetes can not only eat chocolates together to express their love to each other, but also go for a walk together or find some sports that they can do together, which not only consumes calories and blood sugar, but also warms up their relationship.

Wishing every couple a healthy, sweet and happy life!

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Edit: FootCare Technology

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