What is the glycemic index?
Report: glycemic index is the measurement of how quickly a particular food you eat turns into sugar and how quickly is it absorbed by your body and resulting in an increase in blood sugar. Every person is different and reacts differently to different foods. Thus, the reaction may vary. When we talk about sugar, we mean everything that will eventually be converted to glucose by our body. Thus vegetables also have a glycemic index. These have a very low index as they have a high amount of fibre and are non-starchy. Those foods which don't have any carbohydrates in them have close to zero glycemic indexes. To give you a round-off figure, a high glycemic index is considered to be above 70. A medium glycemic index is between 56 to 70. A low or good glycemic index is anything below 56.
