How we regulated blood sugar in patient who loved mangoes: Here's a smart hack

Mangoes do cause blood sugar spikes but being a natural sugar will not trigger as sudden a rush as refined flour or rice.

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Mangoes do cause blood sugar spikes but being a natural sugar will not trigger as sudden a rush as refined flour or rice. One of my patients is a mango lover who kept on asking me the impossible, to be allowed to have the fruit. We just couldn’t have his blood sugar levels go northward. So was there a way of satisfying his craving without a sugar rush? We planned out a smart regime to ensure that he could keep both his cravings and sugar levels in balance.Mangoes do cause blood sugar spikes but being a natural sugar will not trigger as sudden a rush as refined flour or rice. Besides, they are rich in fibre, which slows down sugar absorption, and in antioxidants. What you need to do is consider the mango as a high-yielding carbohydrate and not as a fruit. As somebody living with diabetes, you have to keep to your total carbohydrate or c