Fruits and vegetables are integral to the Diabetes patient’s diet. With the right guidance, smoothies can be used as a better alternative from consuming the products directly. Smoothies for Diabetics can provide a lot of nutrition with fewer calories, which makes it an ideal choice.
Why Does It Work?
Juice-bar smoothies are nothing but a kind of poison for diabetic patients. So smoothies that contain low-fat, fruits that have low sugar, fresh vegetables, etc. help you keep full for a longer time. Also, these healthy smoothies will maintain your cholesterol levels, reduce fat, and enhance your energy levels.
How to Make smoothies?
Green Smoothies/ Weight Loss Smoothies For Diabetics
Green smoothies, combined with a healthy diet, can provide therapeutic benefits for more than a dozen diseases, including Diabetes (Type 2)(1).
What are the benefits of Green smoothie for diabetic (Type 2) patients?
The excess weight, which is a common factor for type 2 diabetic patients, will be reduced.
It provides energy to exercise and thereby reduce the risk.
Green smoothies help to reduce the consumption of processed food.
Dirctions for making:
Combine the ingredients in a blender.
Blend at full speed until its smooth.
Add extra ice to reduce the sweetness. (Always blend Ice in the end)
All the recipes are diabetic friendly and will be very beneficial. If you have any abnormal condition or allergic to any of the ingredients or have any other disease other than diabetes, recipes could backfire. Kindly consult with your doctor before making any of the recipes listed in your daily diet.
FAQs
1. Can smoothies be considered a substitute for fruits?
Having smoothies and fruits together in your diet is not beneficial for a diabetic patient. As smoothies manage to retain the fiber, healthy fat, and protein, it can be used as a substitute for fruits(2)
2. How can smoothies help in weight loss?
By eating fruits, nuts, or yogurt, you will not be full. While having it in the form of a smoothie will keep you full for a longer time. Less hunger leads to less food consumption. The presence of fiber helps in better digestion(3).