Can Eating Wolfberry Lower Blood Sugar?
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- Jun 2,2022
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We all know that wolfberry is a good health food. Proper consumption of wolfberry can enhance human immunity and prolong life. However, does wolfberry have the effect of lowering blood sugar? How to eat wolfberry to lower blood sugar? The following article has the answer for you.
We all know that wolfberry is a good health food. Proper consumption of wolfberry can enhance human immunity, nourish kidney yang, and prolong life.
However, does wolfberry have the effect of lowering blood sugar? How do eat wolfberry to lower blood sugar?
Lycium barbarum is a drug for nourishing yin, sweet in taste, and has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, improving eyesight, and moistening the lungs. Modern drug analysis shows that wolfberry is rich in wolfberry polysaccharide, fat, protein, free amino acids, taurine, betaine, and vitamins B1, B2, E, and C, especially carotenoids. In addition, it also contains a lot of mineral elements.
Can wolfberry lower blood sugar?
Scientific experiments have shown that wolfberry extract has a significant and lasting hypoglycemic effect on diabetic rats, can increase serum insulin levels, repair damaged islet cells, and enhance glucose tolerance.
This substance is Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, which has a good hypoglycemic effect, mainly by promoting the release of insulin from pancreatic islet cells. Therefore, from the above point of view, it is beneficial for patients with hyperglycemia to eat wolfberry.
How should wolfberry lower blood sugar?
Generally speaking, it is more suitable for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of wolfberry per day; the therapeutic amount can be increased to 30 grams. Goji berries should be eaten frequently, not in large quantities at one time. Soak or make soup with wolfberry. Only drinking soup can not fully absorb the nutrition of wolfberry. Goji berries are best eaten together.
Without any processing, directly chewing wolfberry can absorb nutrients more fully. Goji berries can be rinsed with water and chewed, but the dosage should be halved.
In addition to soaking in water or chewing, goji berries are also suitable for diabetics to eat with the following foods:
Wolfberry + yam
Practice: Peel and wash the yam, and cut it into small cubes. After the rice is washed, pour it into the pot together with the yam. Add wolfberry and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Wait until the porridge is thick, then sprinkle some chopped green onion and salt.
Wolfberry + hawthorn
Practice: You can use fresh hawthorn or dried hawthorn slices, pour them into a teacup together with wolfberry, and soak it in boiling water for about 15 minutes. The sour taste can be appetizing, and it is also good to drink as a drink.
Wolfberry + tremella
Wash and soak the white fungus, put it into the soup pot together with the wolfberry, add water to boil, add rock sugar to boil, skim off the foam, put in the white fungus after the soup is clear, and put the wolfberry into the pot and cook until the white fungus is gel-like, Pour into a large soup bowl.
Wolfberry + pork
Wash the pork, remove the tendons, shred the wolfberry, and wash. Heat up the pot, heat the lard, then fry the shredded pork and bamboo shoots together, add cooking wine, sugar, soy sauce, salt, and monosodium glutamate, stir fry evenly, and add the wolfberry, stir fry several times, and eat with sesame oil.
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