What are the types of food groups?

So the main five food groups that we talk about when we're mentioning about management of type 2 diabetes starts off with carbohydrates, then fruits and vegetables, protein, dairies and fats. But we're going to focus a lot more on carbohydrates because carbohydrates is the the food groups that has the most impact on blood glucose. This is because carbohydrates, which is basically a complex molecules joined together of starch molecules, break down into a single molecule of glucose. And if we take in too much glucose into our blood, that immediately has an impact on our blood glucose. And when we say talk about carbohydrates, what we mean is foods such as pasta, bread, potato, rice, spaghetti, even foods like cereals and some fruits will have carbohydrates. So that's the first food group, which we need to talk about when we're managing our type two diabetes. The second food group, which is the most commonly eaten food group is the fruits and vegetables. And fruits and vegetables are really important in type two diabetes, because often people get confused about whether they should be eating fruit or not. Whereas actually fruits have huge amounts of benefits to our health. So fruits and vegetables we need to understand what type of fruits are good for us and how much. And what we should be avoiding is really the fruit juices because once we process a fruit and we liquidize it, we often lose a lot of the fiber. And when we lose fiber, we lose a lot of the other nutrients as well. So fruits and vegetables should be eaten in ample. We shouldn't really restrict these in our diet. Moving on from there, the third most important fruit group is protein. Protein has very little impact on our blood glucose because there's no glucose here. Protein is really important for our muscles, for our growth, for repair, but also what we've learned in the last couple of years is that protein foods has very little impact on blood glucose. We don't produce lots of insulin, which is the hormone that breaks down the glucose. The fourth food group is the dairy foods. Again, lots and lots of research coming out on having lots of live dairy products, so live bacteria, which has huge benefits in terms of how we process our foods. We know that foods such as there's been bad press around whether we should be eating cheese or yogurts and milk, but this food group is really important for calcium as well. And then lastly is the fats and the sugars. And this is something that we don't really talk about much about in terms of quantity, but what we've learned over the years that there is huge benefits of eating good fats. So such as monounsaturated fats from foods such as olives, avocado, good fats from olive oils, oily fish, nuts and seeds is really, really useful for us. And processed foods, which is things like takeaways, you know, frozen meals or ready-made meals, they have something called saturated fats and we should really be avoiding these. So over the last 10 years, what we've learned is that there are some really good fats for us, which we should increase in our diet. And there are some bad fats, which are the saturated fats. And often people get confused about which type of oils to have, which types of butter and ghee, but ultimately the advice is to increase your good fats, which is from monounsaturated fats, and reduce your processed fats, such as palm oil and saturated fats, which is readily available in processed foods.