The invention provides a formulation for a special prandial food, which contains short peptides and is provided for diabetics to eat. The food uses food-originated short peptides as raw materials which are added with extracts of medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines such as yams, mulberry leaves, kudzuvine roots, rhizoma polygonati, corn silks, tuckahoes, ebonies, polygonatums, and the like, and are supplemented with oligosaccharides, vitamins and minerals to form a compound formulation. With the
food formulation, powdered or granular foods can be prepared and are dissolved with
warm water to eat. The food prepared according to the formulation is easy to dissolve, can be absorbed and utilized quickly, provides a high quality
nitrogen source for organisms, supplements various vitamins and minerals necessary for a
human body, is advantageous to improve the
nutritional status of the diabetics, and can play a role in reducing the
blood sugar and controlling the
blood sugar level of the diabetics, improving
organism immunity and preventing diabetes complicating diseases through the combined action of various factors such as bioactive components, the oligosaccharides, and the like in the food-originated short peptides and the extracts of the medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines, thus the food is suitable for the diabetics to eat.