Allopathy Doctors discourage eating Bananas since high sugar content. For type 2 diabetic patients is it banned. Please advise.

Dr. Jasneer NpGeneral Physician6yrs exp

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All fresh fruit is packed with vitamins and fiber, making them a healthy part of any diet. However, some fruits contain more sugar. "Bananas, melons, and stone fruits like peaches and nectarines are on the high-sugar side, says Cathy Doria-Medina, M.D. A Los Angeles endocrinologist. These may cause blood sugar spikes more than other fruit, although this may not be true for everyone. 

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Dr. Prabhakar Laxman JatharEndocrinologist46yrs exp

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The reason for advising that is, banana contains high concentration of sugar, gets rapidly converted to glucose and raises blood glucose fairly rapidly. Eating a small banana once a while is ok. But regular consumption is not advised. Fruits like mango, banana, grapes and chikkoo as those are too sweet, hence better to be avoided. Other fruits like papaya, pomegranate, pear, guava, apple, water melon, orange, sweet lime and other melons are allowed. But only about 100 g a day should be taken with good control of blood glucose. 

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Dr. Gopala Krishnam Raju AmbatiDiabetologist9yrs exp

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Hahahaha you can eat but do workouts. 

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