 Are peaches good for diabetes or diabetics? Today we get to answer that question in a short video. I am Dr. Ahmed Ergen. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes specialist. It is summertime. It's August. It's Florida. It's peach time. Can you have that? Let's talk about it right now. So guys, before we jump to the topic, I want to encourage you to take the quiz in the description below to win a chapter from my diabetes book. Let's move on. So guys, peaches are actually very good. If you have diabetes and you want to have a fruit, you can go for peach. Can you? Well, let's talk about this in a little bit more detail for you to understand the entire thing before you start binging on these poor peaches, right? Okay, so the peaches are actually low in carbs. So one small peach, which I'm sure most of you will not consume, but let's talk about the moderate one. A moderate-sized peach will be around 12 grams of carbs. The small one is 7.5, but I ignored that because I know you will eat more. So 12 grams of carbs is really not much. Now, some of you may still have a blood sugar spike with 12 grams of carbs, and well, that's a problem. If you're having a blood sugar spike with 12 grams of carbs, you have a serious problem. So you better see your doctor today. Now, other than that, the glycemic index, which is the criteria how fast your blood sugar spikes when you eat something. Well, with peaches, that is around 28 to 56 around there. So it's less than 50 overall, which puts the glycemic index in the good category, right? Now, you can increase the glycemic load if you eat 3, 5, 10, or 20 peaches. Don't do that. So stick to one or two peaches and be happy. Now, what are the benefits of peaches? Well, the peaches are really good to avoid obesity and diabetes. Yeah, you guessed it right. Even if you don't have diabetes, if you're eating peaches today, you will be less likely to have diabetes and high blood pressure and obesity. Now, why do people end up giving up on peaches totally? Because they do not eat peaches until they get diabetes, and they eat also other things that are not good for them, and then suddenly they have diabetes and now they cannot have peaches. Not good. If they had peaches from the get-go, they could have had peaches all their life, right? But even if you have diabetes, it is okay to have peaches because it is, what? What is it? Yeah, I hear you. It's full of fiber. It doesn't spike your blood sugar as fast. It is, glycemic index is low. And as long as you eat in what? Yeah, I hear you. Moderation, then you will be just fine. Now, what are the other benefits of peaches? Well, there are a lot of vitamins in there. What vitamins are they? A, B, C vitamins. Also minerals, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus. So these are great vitamins that will help you in many antioxidant functions. Peaches are also have been useful for treatment of anemia, bladder infections, kidney stones, digestion problems, and so forth. So how can you really eat peaches other than just eating raw peaches? Well, you can put them in spinach salad. That will taste good. How do you not want to eat peaches in a can? When you eat any fruit that comes in a can, they're gonna do what? Add a lot of sugar. So you're gonna end up with 30, 40 grams of carbs in that peach for one peach versus only 12 when you go for the canned ones. So don't do that. And lastly, peaches on the cake doesn't make the cake healthy just so you know. And more importantly, do not think that, oh, doctor said peaches are good. So I'm gonna have peaches after my two bananas and two apples and some strawberries. That will be a lot of sugar to add on to your system to deal with. So guys, I hope this video helped you. Please subscribe, take the quiz, win the chapter of the book, and we will see in the next video. Give a thumbs up, subscribe. Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already. If you didn't, do it. And if you did, watch this video right there. I think that will help you too.