Fruits and diabetes

Currently, many people with diabetes around the world. This condition is not allowed to eat anything they wanted, and that is why we must try to follow a diet that suits your needs.
One of the most frequent questions we hear is in the section of fruit. What fruits are not recommended in the case of diabetes?

Usually mistakenly believe that many of the usual fresh fruit (mangoes, apples or bananas) have sugar levels that make them "forbidden foods" for diabetics.

More important than choosing the fruit according to their carbohydrate content, is how to respect the limits of daily sugars we eat, and not only in foods are fruit, but in many others.
That is why we should not in any way eliminate the fresh fruit in our diet, and in fact we can take 3 or 4 servings of fruit a day without worry, but that if we keep track of the recommended amounts of carbohydrate.

It is often advised that a portion of fruit for diabetics contains no more than 15 grams of carbohydrates. And how I can know this? Well, taking a simple rule of three the approximate weight of one serving of fruit and its% carbohydrate.

Too hard?
Not so much to give you an idea, some fruits with about 15 grams of carbohydrates are: half a banana, half a mango, half a slice of watermelon, a small apple, a dozen grapes or medium bowl of fruit salad, to name a few.
What we should try to avoid is the fruit in syrup, dry, frosty confit and, for added sugars contain many more fresh fruits.