A person with diabetes in choosing a healthy snack can help dieticians. According to experts, appropriate snacks should have:
– high protein content,
– healthy fatty acids,
– a small number of carbohydrates (low or medium glycemic index ).
Snacks for people with diabetes containing no more than 1 WW (carbohydrate exchanger) – examples
– Vegetable juice, tomato juice (1 glass),
– Natural buttermilk, sour milk, yogurt, or kefir (1 glass),
– Vegetables, cut into sticks, e.g. zucchini, pepper, carrot, pickled cucumber, green cucumber, tomato, lettuce, kohlrabi, sauerkraut,
– Salads and salads from the aforementioned vegetables (carrot with apple, tomato with onion and natural yogurt, lettuce with olives and tomato),
– Whole grain rice cakes (1 piece),
– Fruit: half an orange, 1 small apple, 1 cup of raspberries, blueberries, currants or strawberries, half a grapefruit,
– Eggs (1-2 pieces),
– Whole meal crispbread (2 pieces),
– Natural cottage cheese (1 packet) with cucumber, chives, tomato, radish,
– Fish and meat no breadcrumbs,
– Lean meats.