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After being diagnosed with diabetes, many doctors advise patients to drink less or no porridge.This is because for rice, rice already has a high glycemic capacity, while porridge because of the paste or water-like, the body will digest faster after ingestion, the glycemic capacity is naturally higher.

In addition, from the point of view of eating habits, many people will eat rice as a staple food together with vegetables, meat, poultry, fish and eggs, etc., while drinking porridge is mostly with sauces, buns, steamed buns, etc.. Buns and steamed buns are mostly made of delicate rice and noodles, and if eaten with congee, blood sugar will rise rapidly.

If diabetics want to drink porridge, they must master the method. For example, when drinking porridge with unrefined rice and noodles made of foods such as mixed grains, vegetables, fish, poultry, meat, and eggs eaten together.

For people who are used to drinking porridge for breakfast, you can mix rice and various kinds of mixed beans to cook together, such as red beans, black beans, mung beans, etc. Mixed beans are rich in fiber, which can effectively reduce the rate of blood sugar, which is also rich in high-quality protein, which is very beneficial to the management of blood sugar of diabetics.

In addition, you can also replace the rice porridge with various kinds of porridge, such as barley porridge, oat porridge, and so on. For people who like to drink only rice porridge, you can add lean meat or vegetables to the porridge, or drink porridge with vegetables and lean meat, these are healthy ways of drinking porridge that diabetics can try.