American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 76, No. 1, 5-56, July 2002
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International table of glycemic index and glycemic load values: 20021,2
Kaye Foster-Powell, Susanna HA Holt and Janette C Brand-Miller
1 From the Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial
Biosciences, University of Sydney, Australia.


Reliable tables of glycemic index (GI) compiled from the scientific
literature are instrumental in improving the quality of research examining
the relation between GI, glycemic load, and health. The GI has proven to be
a more useful nutritional concept than is the chemical classification of
carbohydrate (as simple or complex, as sugars or starches, or as available
or unavailable), permitting new insights into the relation between the
physiologic effects of carbohydrate-rich foods and health. Several
prospective observational studies have shown that the chronic consumption of
a diet with a high glycemic load (GI x dietary carbohydrate content) is
independently associated with an increased risk of developing type 2
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers. This revised table
contains almost 3 times the number of foods listed in the original table
(first published in this Journal in 1995) and contains nearly 1300 data
entries derived from published and unpublished verified sources,
representing > 750 different types of foods tested with the use of standard
methods. The revised table also lists the glycemic load associated with the
consumption of specified serving sizes of different foods.