What surprising foods have recently been added to the glycemic index food list?”
Eating pure glucose is given a ranking of 100 — all other foods are in relation to this. So a food with a glycemic index of 95 raises blood sugar almost as much as pure glucose, but a food with a glycemic index of 20 doesn’t raise blood sugar much at all. It’s important to keep in mind, though, that the glycemic index does not take portion size into account. The actual amount any food raises blood sugar has to do both with how glycemic it is, and how much of it you eat. The glycemic load attempts to combine these concepts, and some diets are using the glycemic load for this reason. Why is there such a large range of numbers on many foods? Many factors influence how foods test, including differences between the people tested, the recipes, the laboratory techniques, and the fact that no two carrots are exactly alike. When there is a single number after a food, that means that only one study was done of that food (it could have been a study from anywhere in the world). That number is an
