The glycemic index

HIGH GLYCEMIC INDEX FOODS

Grains

Rice

• Glutinous rice
  
• Instant rice
  
• Jasmine rice
  
• Parboiled rice
  
• White rice
  

Grain Products

Breads (almost all breads)

• Bagel
  
• Baguette, white
  
• English Muffin
  
• Kaiser bread rolls
  
• White bread
  
• Wonder Bread™
  

Breakfast Cereals (almost all cereals)

• Cheerios™
  
• Coco Pops™
  
• Corn Chex™
  
• Corn Pops™
  
• Cornflakes™
  
• Crispix™
  
• Grapenuts Flakes™
  
• Instant Cream of Wheat
  
• Rice Chex™
  
• Rice Krispies™
  
• Shredded Wheat™
  
• Special K™
  
• Total™
  

Crackers and Chips (almost all)

• Pretzels
  
• Puffed rice cakes
  
• Rice cracker
  
• Soda Crackers
  
• Water crackers
  

Other Breakfast Foods

• Cupcake
  
• Doughnut
  
• Pancakes
  
• Pop Tarts™
  
• Waffles
  

Other

• Rice pasta
  
• Popcorn
  

Vegetables

• Carrots, boiled
  
• French fries
  
• Parsnips
  
• Potato: Baked Potato, Instant, Mashed
  
• Pumpkin
  
• Sweet potato
  
• Tapioca
  

Fruits

• Dates, dried
  
• Watermelon
  

Fruit Products

• Fruit Roll-Ups®
  
• Processed fruit bars, fruit wraps…
  

Sugars

• Most sugary snacks
  
• Sucrose (25 g test portion)
  
• Glucose (50 g test portion)
  
• Honey
  
• Jelly beans
  

Drinks

• Gatorade®
  

Dairy

• Yoghurt, low fat
  

Beans

• Broad beans
  
• Kidney beans
  

MEDIUM GLYCEMIC INDEX FOODS

Grains

• Brown rice
  
• Long grain rice
  
• Sweet corn
  

Grain Products

Breads (almost all)

• Blueberry muffin
  
• Bran muffin
  
• Whole Grain bread
  
• Corn tortilla
  

Breakfast Cereals (almost all)

• Grapenuts™
  
• Life ™
  
• Quick Oatmeal
  
• Raisin Bran™
  
• Special K™
  

Crackers and Chips (almost all)

• Potato chips
  
• Corn chips
  

Other Breakfast Foods

• Croissant
  
• Oatmeal muffin
  

Cakes

• Almost all cakes
  
• Angel food cake
  

Fruits

• Banana
  
• Cherries, dark
  
• Grapes, black
  
• Mango
  
• Peach
  
• Pineapple
  
• Raisins
  

Sugars

• Most sugary snacks
  
• Snickers Bar®
  

Drinks

• Cranberry juice cocktail
  
• Coca Cola®
  
• Almost all Sodas
  
• Almost all fruit juices
  

Dairy

• Ice cream
  

Other

• Macaroni and Cheese
  
• Pizza, cheese
  
• Soup, split pea
  
• Soup, green pea
  

LOW GLYCEMIC INDEX FOODS

Grains

Pearl barley

Wild rice

Grain Products

Fettucine, egg

Lasagna

Linguine

Macaroni

Ravioli

Spaghetti

Fruits

Apple

Blackberries

Blueberries

Cherries

Dried apricots

Grapes

Kiwi fruit

Orange

Pear

Plums

Raspberries

Strawberries

Vegetables

Carrots, raw

Squash (most)

Tomatoes

Tomato Juice

Tomato soup

Yam (Canada)

Beans

Baked Beans

Black eyed beans

Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans)

Lentils, red

Pinto beans

Red Kidney Beans

Romano beans

Soya beans

Dairy

Full-fat cows’ milk

Nuts

Cashews

Mixed nuts, roasted and salted

Peanuts

Peanut butter

Other

Chicken nuggets

Hummus (chickpea salad dip)

Pizza with meat

Sausages

BELOW GLYCEMIC INDEX FOODS

Vegetables

• Avocados
  
• Broccoli
  
• Brussels sprout
  
• Cabbage
  
• Cauliflower
  
• Celery
  
• Chard
  
• Eggplant
  
• Garlic
  
• Kale
  
• Onions
  
• Radish
  
• Sprouts
  

Lettuce of all kinds

• Green leaf
  
• Iceberg
  
• Red leaf…
  

Mixed greens

• Arugula
  
• Beet greens
  
• Collard Greens
  
• Dandelion greens
  
• Endive
  
• Escarole
  
• Radicchio
  
• Red mustard
  
• Spinach
  

Meat

• Beef
  
• Chicken
  
• Fish
  
• Pork
  
• Wild game
  

Other

• Eggs
  

Mushrooms

• Maitake
  
• Reishi
  
• Shitake…