Sunchoke
Enjoy Sunchoke
(Helianthus tuberosus)
Girasole
Jerusalem artichokes
Another food which helps regulate blood glucose is sunchokes or Jerusalem artichokes. It is high in inulin. Inulin belongs to a class of dietary fibers known as fructans. Inulin is used by some plants as a means of storing energy and is typically found in roots or rhizomes. Using inulin to measure renal function is the gold standard for comparison with other means of estimating creatinine clearance.
While taking octreotide for liver cysts you may notice your blood sugar going a little awry. Eating sunchokes might help this along with a common herb called cinnamon.
Sunchokes are available May through November, are easy to grow at home, even in a sand box. Sunchokes can be eaten raw or baked or roasted or boiled or steamed or wrapped in patapar paper and then steamed. Their taste is like a cross between a potato and an artichoke when roasted; when eaten raw the taste is similar to jicama; boiled and made into a soup their taste is similar to turnips. These are a vegetable that is very good for improving liver, kidney and pancreas functioning. Sunchokes are a prebiotic.
Girasole is the Italian word for Jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes. In Italian this word sounds a bit like Jerusalem.
Enjoy Inulin
Urinary clearance of inulin, a 5200 Da inert polymer of fructose derived from plant tubers, is considered the gold standard measurement of GFR.
Effects of IGF-I on renal function in patients with chronic renal failure
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 264: F917-F922, 1993; 0363-6127/93
AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 5 917-F922, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society
M. H. O'Shea, S. B. Miller and M. R. Hammerman
