The researchers studied 14 healthy volunteers. First, they were asked to eat an ordinary pudding and a pudding with cinnamon powder, and then measured their blood sugar levels before and after eating. The researchers kept measuring their blood sugar levels for two hours. It was found that after eating cinnamon pudding, blood sugar was relatively low.
Sweets and cinnamon can effectively prevent blood sugar from rising
Sweets and cinnamon can effectively prevent blood sugar from rising
According to Reuters, a research report said that adding some cinnamon to sweet food can relieve the situation of blood sugar surge after eating sweet food.
Researchers from Malmo University Hospital in Sweden found that if more than one teaspoon of cinnamon powder can be sprinkled on the rice pudding, it will relieve the problem of high blood sugar after meals. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also affirmed that cinnamon can help control blood sugar.
The researchers studied 14 healthy volunteers. First, they were asked to eat an ordinary pudding and a pudding with cinnamon powder, and then measured their blood sugar levels before and after eating. The researchers kept measuring their blood sugar levels for two hours. It was found that after eating cinnamon pudding, blood sugar was relatively low.
Researchers believe that one reason may be that cinnamon can reduce the speed of food from the stomach to the intestines. Using ultrasound scans, they found that the subjects' "stomach emptying" slowed down after eating cinnamon pudding.
The researchers also found that after 40 days of adding cinnamon to the meals of patients with type 2 diabetes, their blood sugar and cholesterol levels tended to decline, but for patients with type 1 diabetes, there was no such reaction.
