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Abstract:
A table which shows the glycemic index (GI) for 150 common foodstuffs.
Glycemic index (GI) shows how much our blood sugar level increases after a meal, compared to 100 for how much our blood sugar level increases when we eat white bread.
If you want to lose weight, or avoid gaining weight, you need to eat food with a low GI, as the ones in the beginning of the table below:
Soft drinks, diet | 0 |
Lemonade, diet | 0 |
Lemon | 20 |
Fungus | 20 |
Yoghurt, with fruit, no sugar added | 20 |
Soya beans, preserved | 30 |
Fruit sugar (fructose) | 32 |
Plum | 34 |
Marmalade, no sugar added | 35 |
Grapefruit | 36 |
Grain, whole | 36 |
Red lentils | 36 |
Spaghetti, protein enriched | 38 |
Grainbread, with whole grain | 39 - 66 |
Milk, 3% fat | 39 |
Hot dog | 40 |
Peach | 40 |
Soya yoghurt (vitari) | 40 |
White beans | 40 |
Green lentils | 42 |
Banana, green (unriped) | 43 |
Kidney beans | 43 |
Peach, preserved, no sugar added | 43 |
Soya milk | 43 |
Apricots, dried | 44 |
Vax beans | 44 |
Strawberries | 45 |
Fettucini with eggs | 46 |
Lima beans, frozen | 46 |
Non fat milk | 46 |
Nutella | 46 |
Chick peas | 47 |
Youghurt, with fruit, sweetened | 47 |
Rye, whole grain | 48 |
Ice cream | 51 - 114 |
Pear | 50 |
Yoghurt, natural | 51 |
Spaghetti, wheat, boiled 5 minutes | 52 |
Apple | 52 |
Spagetti, whole grain | 53 |
Fish fingers | 54 |
Haricot verts, green beans | 54 |
Tomato soup | 54 |
Pinto beans | 55 |
Ravioli | 56 |
Apple juice | 58 |
Black-eye beans | 59 |
Spaghetti, thick, boiled 15 minutes | 59 |
Wheat, whole grain | 59 |
All bran | 60 |
Branflakes | 60 |
Chick peas, preserved | 60 |
Müsli, depending on brand | 60 - 94 |
Orange | 62 |
Lentil soup | 63 |
Pears, preserved, no suggar added | 63 |
Bread, from four seeds | 64 |
Macaronis | 64 |
Pinto beans, preserved | 64 |
Pineapple juice | 66 |
Bread, containing dried fruit | 67 |
Corn, fozen | 67 |
Noodles, short boiling time | 67 |
Spaghetti, wheat, boiled 12 minutes | 67 |
Green peas | 68 |
Rice, parboiled | 68 |
Rye bread, with whole grain | 68 |
Wheat bread with approximately 50% oats | 68 |
Beans, baked beans | 69 |
Grapefruitjuice | 69 |
Oatmeal porridge | 70 |
Linguine with eggs | 70 |
White beans, preserved | 70 |
Tortellini, with cheese | 71 |
Cajun rice (Uncle Bens) | 72 |
Orange juice | 74 |
Banana, brown (riped for a long time) | 74 |
Green lentils, preserved | 74 |
Kidney beans, preserved | 74 |
Peach preserved, less sweetened (light) | 74 |
Kiwi fruit | 75 |
Special K | 77 |
Sweet potato | 77 |
Buckwheat | 78 |
Branoats | 78 |
Linguine, thin | 78 |
Rye bread with flax seed | 78 |
Fruit cocktail, preserved | 79 |
Rice, brown | 79 |
Honey | 80 - 126 |
Corn, preserved | 80 |
Mango | 80 |
Potato, baked, Russet | 80 |
Potato, Pontiac (firm) | 80 |
Potato, fresh | 81 |
Rice, jasmin | 81 |
Unpolished rice | 81 |
Papaya | 83 |
Peach, preserved, sweetened | 83 |
Rice, Basmati | 83 |
Bred from rye sour dough | 83 |
Banana, yellow (riped) | 84 |
Pea soup | 86 |
Potato, preserved | 87 |
Rolled oats, unboiled | 89 |
Rye bread, whole grain | 89 |
Potato, King Edward | 90 |
Apricots, preserved | 91 |
Beetroots, boiled | 91 |
Chiabatta | 92 |
Corn bread | 92 |
Sugar (sacharos) | 92 |
Couscous | 93 |
Fruit cake | 93 |
Melon (cantaloupe) | 93 |
Potato, steam boiled | 93 |
Raisins | 93 |
Ryvita (crispbread) | 93 |
Pineapple | 94 |
Nectar | 94 |
Lemonade | 94 |
Porridge, short boiling time | 94 |
Pea soup, with green peas | 94 |
Gnocchi | 95 |
Crispbread, mean coarse | 95 |
Corn bread | 95 |
Soft drinks | 97 |
Corn flour | 97 |
Taco shell | 97 |
Wheat bread (whole grain) | 97 |
Tea round loaf | 98 |
Melba toast | 100 |
Carrots, boiled | 101 |
Swedish turnip | 103 |
Water melon | 103 |
Pumpkin | 107 |
Weetabix | 109 |
Potato, baked in microwave | 117 |
Rice Crispies (Kellog's) | 117 |
Rice cake, ordinary | 117 |
Mashed potatoes, made from powder | 118 |
Corn flakes | 121 |
Crispis (Kellog's) | 124 |
Rice, short boiling time | 128 |
Bread free from gluten | 129 |
Ricepasta (platen noodles) | 131 |
Rice crispies | 132 |
Potato, baked | 135 |
Baguette | 136 |
Energy drink | 136 |
Parsnip, boiled | 139 |
Dextrose | 146 |