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Categories: Diabetes, Endocrinology
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glycemic index  Gi Diet  GI-index  GI index  GI value
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The glycemic index is a number from 0 to 100 assigned to a food, with pure glucose arbitrarily given the value of 100, which represents the relative rise in the blood glucose level two hours after consuming that food. Wikipedia
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The glycemic index is a number from 0 to 100 assigned to a food, with pure glucose arbitrarily given the value of 100, which represents the relative rise in the blood glucose level two hours after consuming that food. Wikipedia
Measuring a food's effect on blood glucose Wikipedia Disambiguation
A measure of how quickly blood sugar levels rise after eating a particular type of food, on a scale where the index of glucose or ordinary table sugar is 100. Wiktionary