Four Vegetables Diabetics Should Beware Of

Today I am here to talk about vegetables. As someone with diabetes, chances are you are keenly aware of the fact that vegetables are supposed to be excellent choices if you are looking to better manage your health and well-being.

Vegetables are rich in vitamins, high in minerals, loaded with fiber, and are low in calories – the perfect thing for anyone looking to control their body weight.

Except a few.

Those few are what we are here to discuss today. Many diabetics believe that any vegetable is fair game in their plan to manage their blood glucose levels, but this just isn’t the case.

With these vegetables, you need to practice more control and awareness when you eat them. While you can eat many others – broccoli, cucumbers, mushrooms, and so forth – with abandon, there are some you need to be monitoring a bit more. Now, this isn’t to say they are bad, it’s just that they need to be used in the diet plan with a little more discretion.

Here are the main vegetables to be aware of.

Corn

Corn is the first vegetable to be careful about. Corn is higher in both sugar and starch than most vegetables, which is to be expected considering how sweet it is in taste.

While corn is a fantastic source of dietary fiber, it still can increase blood sugar levels a considerable amount, so try and eat it in moderation only.

Peas

Peas are another vegetable to watch out for. While peas don’t contain as much sugar as corn does, they still contain enough that you should be careful about how much you are eating.

Three quarters of a cup of peas is about as many carbs as half a cup of rice, so this might help you put things into perspective.

If you are eating snap peas, the calorie content is a bit lower and there aren’t as many carbs, so those you can be more lenient with.

Carrots

Carrots are one of the most widely consumed vegetables out there and are a delicious addition to your diet plan. This said, they’re also higher in sugar content than some other vegetables you could be eating, so they should also be consumed in moderation.

Try serving carrots in smaller doses and make sure that they aren’t loaded with butter. They are quite low in calories, but not as low in calorie as, say, peppers or mushrooms are.

Potatoes

Finally, while most people regard this more as a starch, not a vegetable, it should still be mentioned because potatoes are vegetables. Potatoes are much higher in both carbohydrates and calories than all other vegetables are, so treat them like you would pasta, bread, or some other form of carbohydrate.

Regular potatoes also have the capacity to increase blood sugar levels to a large degree, so you’ll really want to be careful when consuming these.

So, there you have the main vegetables to be on the lookout for. Are you eating any of these regularly? Should you be moderating your intake of these vegetables a bit more closely than you have been?