Vitamins and Diabetes

The usual diabetic diet including fruit, green vegetables both raw and cooked, flesh foods and fat are rich in vitamins. The greater amount of vitamin C is obtained from oranges and lemons, but if plenty of vegetables are eaten especially salads, sufficient vitamin C will be obtained. As I have posted in the vitamin section of this website vitamin C is a water based vitamin and prolonged cooking of veg. that contain this vitamin will destroy it, so freshness and a quick cooking period will give greater amounts.

Foods rich in vitamin C are:

• Cabbage, Kohlrabi (cabbage family), turnip tops, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, parsley, broccoli tops, Cress, spinach, watercress, tomatoes, mustard
• Blackcurrants, strawberries, gooseberries, grapefruit, oranges

Vitamins A and D are richly contained in animal fats, cod-liver oil, butter and also in green vegetables excellent for growth and bone formation in the young.

British margarine is fortified with added vitamin A and D.

Vitamin B is present in the husk, or grain and is lost in the making of refined white flour and bread. Wholemeal bread has an advantage over white bread by being rich in vitamin B.

It appear that recent research suggests that Evening Primrose Oil could help sufferers of diabetes and eczema (check with your doctor). Other foods that are particularly rich in this vitamin are kidneys, liver and egg yolks.