Diabetes imposes severe nutritional restrictions. But everyone wants to treat themselves to a delicious dessert for tea. Sugar-free oatmeal cookies for diabetics are on sale. Such pastries can be prepared at home.
Can I eat oatmeal cookies for diabetes?
Diabetics are excluded from pastries, pastries, puff and shortbread dough, which is mainly on store shelves. Cookies for them should be inedible, unsweetened and non-greasy. It usually contains vegetable oil or margarine with a low fat content, sugar substitutes (fructose, sorbitol, and others). Finding such cookies on sale is not always easy. Therefore, the most reliable way to cook yourself. Oatmeal cookies are popular among homemade diabetic recipes.
Occasionally on sale is an option for fructose. But if you did not find it, then there are many recipes for this baking for patients with diabetes. Oatmeal confectionery can be used for different types of diseases. This will be a real lifesaver for gestational diabetes in pregnant women. Oatmeal and cereal are useful products and are solved for a variety of problems with the pancreas. Such products serve as a source of carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals for the body.
Did you know? The birthplace of oats is Mongolia and the neighboring provinces of China. It was cultivated 2 thousand years ago BC.
What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease associated with a malfunction in the body's absorption of glucose due to poor production of insulin. This disease is of the first and second type. Moreover, the disease in both cases has many similarities in symptoms and course, but has different root causes and treatment methods. With each type of disease, there is an increase in blood sugar. The degree of this excess determines the severity of diabetes. The limiting indicator is 6 mmol / 1 l.
In both cases, the following symptoms are observed:
- constant thirst;
- frequent urination
- dry mouth
- attacks of hunger;
- slow healing of wounds and cuts;
- skin rashes;
- the appearance of sores on the arms and legs;
- headaches and dizziness;
- low immunity.
However, there is a difference between types of diabetes. In the first case, the cause of the disease is the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin. This leads to an increase in blood sugar. The cause of this phenomenon may be viral or autoimmune diseases. This type of diabetes is also called insulin-dependent.
Important! If in the 1st form the main treatment is insulin injections, then in the 2nd form, diets and moderate physical activity can help at the initial stage of the disease.
The reasons for the appearance of the second type are not fully defined. In this case, the pancreas functions satisfactorily and produces enough insulin necessary for the body, but the blood sugar level is still elevated.
This metabolic process proceeds from a number of factors:
- overweight;
- stressful situations;
- physical inactivity;
- excessive consumption of medications and alcohol;
- malnutrition.
Cells lose sensitivity to insulin, and glucose begins to linger in the blood. This type of diabetes is found in people with overweight, as metabolic processes in the body begin to fail. And excess body fat does not particularly respond to insulin. In the first type, the symptoms of diabetes become noticeable in a fairly short period of time (1-3 months). The second type of disease does not appear so quickly.It may be preceded by the so-called prediabetes, when glucose levels gradually increase. The disease itself can occur several years after the appearance of problems with blood sugar. In the initial stages of the disease, symptoms may not be expressed or may be mild.. Type 2 diabetes is often diagnosed in young people under 30, as well as in children. But another option is found at the age of more than 40 years. The first type is more often affected by men, and the second - by women.
It is also noted that the insulin-dependent variant is observed in most cases in the northern countries, and the climate does not affect another type. And the second more often depends on the hereditary data than the first. There is one form of raising blood sugar - gestational diabetes. It sometimes appears in pregnant women with a change in the hormonal background of a woman during the period of gestation. The future mother needs to take insulin in this case. After childbirth, the situation usually changes, and glucose levels normalize.
Recipes for Dietary Oatmeal Cookies
Oatmeal cookies at home are most often made using Hercules flakes, from which oatmeal is prepared. They are sometimes ground on a coffee grinder to the consistency of flour. The following are simple recipes for making this cookie that will suit people with different types of diabetes.
Sugarless
330 g40 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cool margarine and cut into cubes.
- Grind margarine with oatmeal and fructose.
- Add water to the mixture until optimal viscosity is obtained. The dough should not be liquid or too dense and not elastic.
- Heat the oven.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment and put the dough with two teaspoons on it, forming flat cakes.
- Bake for 20 minutes. in the oven preheated to + 180 ° С.
With chocolate
1070 g 40 min.
oatmeal "Hercules"
2 cups
unrefined hard flour
1 cup
chocolate (on fructose)
150 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Hold the butter in a warm place.
- Wash and plum halves, separating the stone. Then cut into small cubes.
- Grate chocolate.
- Mix oatmeal with flour, baking powder, warm butter, milk and sorbitol, kneading the dough.
- Insert nuts and chocolate into the dough.
- Put the formed cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment and put in the oven heated to + 180 ° С.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
Did you know? In Russia, oats was an important grain crop in the nutrition of the population. In the "Tale of Bygone Years" it is said that kissel was cooked from oat oat flour.
With raisins
1690 g 35 min.
oatmeal "Hercules"
1 kg
chopped walnuts
1 tbsp.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Chop walnuts. If the raisins are large, then it also needs to be cut. Then mix the ingredients with oatmeal.
- Combine and mix the olive oil with water. Pour into a mixture of nuts, raisins and cereal.
- Add sorbitol, soda, lemon juice, and knead the dough.
- Form cookies and put on a baking sheet with parchment.
- Bake in a preheated oven to + 200 ° C for 15 minutes.
With apples
590 g 1 hour 30 minutes
oatmeal "Hercules"
1 tbsp.
citric acid
0.5 tsp
refined vegetable oil
3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder.
- Mix crushed cereal with flour, cinnamon, soda, citric acid, salt and fructose.
- Add vegetable oil to the dry mixture.
- Wash apples, peel and bake apples in the oven.
- Remove the peel from the fruit and grind it in mashed potatoes.
- Add the apple mass to the flour mixture and knead the dough. It should turn out elastic and stick a little to the palms. If necessary, you can put flour in it.
- Form from the dough with two tablespoons the cakes and put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Bake in an oven preheated to + 200 ° C for 30–40 minutes.
Important! As sweeteners, diabetics can use natural substances (xylitol, fructose, stevia or sorbitol). Among the synthetic substances they are allowed to use saccharin, aspartame, potassium acesulfame, sucralose.
With cheese
300 g 40 min.
oatmeal "Hercules"
100 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Mix the Hercules flour and flakes.
- Soften the oil and add it to the mixture with soda.
- Grate the cheese and put it in the mixture.
- Stir the ingredients and pour milk into them gradually. Knead the dough.
- Roll out the dough into a layer and cut a glass of mug.
- Put cookies on a greased form. Cover the top with raw yolk.
- Bake in an oven preheated to + 200 ° C for 25 minutes.
For type 1 diabetics
650 g35 min.
oatmeal "Hercules"
100 g
whole grain wheat flour
100 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Grind the Hercules flakes into flour on a coffee grinder and mix with flour, baking powder and stevia.
- Add kefir and eggs to the mixture.
- Wash the lemon well, cut into pieces, remove the seeds and grind in a blender.
- Add the citrus puree to the rest of the ingredients and knead the dough.
- Form cookies and place on a baking sheet with parchment for baking.
- Keep in oven preheated to + 200 ° С for 15 minutes.
Did you know? Hercules oatmeal contains half the daily dose of selenium (in 100 grams). This microelement is very important for the work of the body's defenses and contributes to the preservation of youth.
For type 2 diabetics
880 g40 min.
oatmeal "Hercules"
250 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Melt the butter in a water bath and mix with oatmeal.
- Squeeze juice out of half a lemon and extinguish soda. Then mix with starch and flour.
- Add eggs and cream, salt and zest, grated from the crust of half a lemon to the flour mixture.
- Combine the mass with cereal, and knead the dough. It should be similar in consistency to sour cream.
- Put the dough with a tablespoon on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Put the cookies in the oven preheated to + 180 ° С and bake for 25 minutes.
Oatmeal cookies for diabetics can be bought at the store, but it is better to bake this pastry at home. Baking can be done using familiar Hercules flakes. This is a great addition to tea.
