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Table
of Glycaemic Index of Foods
A
high GI value is 70 or more
A medium GI value is 56-69
A low GI value is less than 55
*
= These
foods have a high fat content and should
be eaten only occasionally
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LOW
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MEDIUM
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HIGH
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Cereals
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AllBran, Fruit ‘n oats, Toasted muesli*,
Frosties, rolled oats, porridge, Guardian,
oat bran, Komplete oven baked muesli,
oat/rice bran, Special K,
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Special
K, untoasted muesli, Bran Buds, Just
Right, Mini Wheats, Vitabrits, Nutrigrain,
Sustain, Weetbix, Honey Smacks,
untoasted muesli, shredded wheat,
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Cornflakes,
Sultana Bran, Branflakes, Cocopops,
Puffed Wheat, Rice Bubbles, Rice Chex,
Wheat bites, Breakfast bars,
Oat in honey bake, Team, Total, wheat
bites, corn bran
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Breads
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Burgen
Oat bran bread (31) or multigrain
bread or soy-linseed bread (19) or
fruit bread, kibbled barley,
Holsom's wholemeal, 9 grain mutigrain,
fruit loaf, pumpernickel, sourdough
rye, stoneground wholemeal, Ploughman’s
loaf, Vogel Honey & Oat.
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Pita
bread, croissant*, crumpet, white
bread, hamburger bun, light rye bread,
sourdough, rye, wholemeal bread, pizza.
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White,
Bagels, waffles Wonderwhite, Dark
Rye bread, French baguette, melba
toast, Gluten-free bread.
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Crackers/Crispbreads/Biscuits/Cakes
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Jatz*,
oatmeal, rich tea biscuits, banana
cake, pound cake, apple muffin,
sponge cake.
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Ryvita,
Saos, Jatz, Breton wheat, stoned wheat
thins, digestives,oatmeal, milk
arrowroot, shredded wheatmeals, shortbread,
flans, angel food cake* muesli bars
with fruit, bran muffins, Blueberry
muffin,
flaky pastry.
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Kavli,
water crackers, rice cakes, pretzels,
crackerbread, puffed crispbread, morning
coffee, vanilla wafer, donuts (cinnamon).
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Grains/Pasta
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Wheat
pasta, noodles, egg fettucine, vermicelli,
meat ravioli, macaroni, tortellini,
spaghetti, long grain white rice,
pearl barley, buckwheat, bulgur, semolina,
cracked wheat, popcorn.
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Buckwheat,
brown rice, Doongara, Basmati rice,
taco shells, gnocchi, couscous, maize
cornmeal, macaroni cheese (packet).
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Sunbrown
quick rice, Calrose shortgrain rice,
Instant cooked, tapioca, Corn
chips, millet, rice pasta.
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Legumes/nuts
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Soya
beans, kidney beans, lentils, butter
beans, chick peas, haricot beans,
lentils, baked beans, bengal gram,
blackeyed beans
all nuts
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Green
gram dahl, green pea soup, split pea
soup.
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Broad
beans, lima beans, pinto beans.
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Vegetables
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Green
peas, sweet corn, sweet potato, carrots.
potato crisps*
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New
canned potatoes, new potatoes, beetroot.
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French
fries*, baked potatoes, pumpkin, parsnip,
potatoes (Pontiac, Sebago, Desiree,
instant).
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Fruit
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Cherries,
plums, grapefruit, peaches, apples,
pears, dried apricots, grapes,
kiwi fruit, oranges, jam.
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Mango,
paw paw, sultanas, bananas (just
ripe), raisins, rockmelon, pineapple,
fresh apricots,
canned fruit in syrup.
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watermelon,
very ripe “medium fruits”.
dates
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Dairy
Foods
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Whole
milk, skim milk, chocolate milk, low
fat flavoured yoghurt, artificially
sweetened yoghurt, low fat ice-cream*,
custard, soy milk
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Icecream
(full fat).
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Tofu
frozen dessert
Vitari frozen fruit
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Sugars
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Fructose
(fruit sugar).
Nutella
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Lactose
(milk sugar), Sucrose, honey.
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Glucose,
Glucodin, jellybeans, lifesavers,
maltose.
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Beverages
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Apple
juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice,
Sustagen.
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Cordial,
Fanta.
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Lucozade,
Gatorade, Sports Plus.
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*
These foods have a high fat content and
should be eaten only occasionally
See
also:
Glycemic index symbol
on food products
Last
Updated: June 2004
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