Diet for Diabetics: What We Should Know About Proteins

In diabetic diet it is necessary to take into account that proteins are the main building material for organism’s cells. Thanks to proteins cells are regenerated.

The most important source of proteins is meat, fish, cottage cheese, cheese and milk, and, vegetal food like bread, potato, peas and beans, rice.

An adult’s need in protein is 1 g for 1 kg of weight. A person weighting 70 kg should consume 60-80 g of proteins daily. More than a half of proteins should be of animal origin.

While following the diet for diabetics it is necessary to replace food products correctly, taking into account the protein content. As a rule, meat is replaced by fish in ratio by 100g of meat to 100-110 g of fish.

If you replace meat by fatless cottage cheese or eggs, necessarily take into consideration fat content in food, and make correction for overall amount of fat in diet.

Pay special attention to replacement of meat by milk. Equal in protein content amount of milk will contain also fat, and, first of all, significant quantity of easily digestible carbohydrates. At calculations 1 g of protein gives 4 kcal.

If not to take into account carbohydrates, then a diabetics can drink 0,25 liter of milk. In this case, additional 0,25 liter will contain 12 g of carbohydrates taken into calculations.

Such food products like cheese and cottage cheese contain small quantities of carbohydrates, that is why they are not to be calculated.

20 g of proteins you can get from such products of animal origin, g:

sour cream - 700
milk - 600
Oysters - 330
egg white - 180
chicken eggs - 160
fat cottage cheese - 140
low-fat cottage cheese - 130
egg yolk - 120
hake - 120
carp - 120
cod - 120
pork bacon - 120
mutton - 120
beef - 120
veal - 110
turkey - 110
cheese - 85

20 g of proteins you can get from such products of plant origin, g:

potatoes - 1000
wheat flour - 200
rye flour - 200
oat flakes - 190
nuts, hazelnuts - 120
nuts, almonds - 110
soybeans - 90
lentils - 80