Understanding glycemic index
What is the Glycemic Index?
The Glycemic Index (GI) is the scientifically proven way of ranking carbohydrates, like breads, breakfast cereals, rice, pasta, noodles, fruit, starchy vegetables, legumes, milk and yoghurt according to how they affect your blood glucose (sugar) levels.
Most people don’t eat too much carbohydrate. In fact, most people just eat the wrong kind of carbohydrates. And that’s where GI comes in.
Not all carbohydrates are created equal
Carbohydrates with a low GI (55 or less) will make your blood glucose rise slowly and fall gently over a longer time. Carbohydrates with a high GI (70 or more) are digested and absorbed quickly causing your blood glucose levels to spike and then crash.
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