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Glycaemic Index of foods
LOW less than 55 Choose most often
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MEDIUM 56 - 59 Choose more often
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HIGH 70 or more Choose less often
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Cereals
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AllBran, Fruit 'n oats, Toasted muesli*, Frosties, rolled oats, porridge, Guardian, oat bran, Komplete oven baked muesli, oat/rice bran, Special K
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Special K, untoasted muesli, Bran Buds, Just Right, Mini Wheats, Vitabrits, Nutrigrain, Sustain, Weetbix, Honey Smacks, untoasted muesli, shredded wheat
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Cornflakes, Sultana Bran, Branflakes, Cocopops, Puffed Wheat, Rice Bubbles, Rice Chex, Wheat bites, Breakfast bars,
Oat in honey bake, Team, Total, wheat bites, corn bran
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Breads
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Burgen Oat bran bread (31) or multigrain bread or soy-linseed bread (19) or fruit bread, kibbled barley, Holsom's wholemeal, 9 grain mutigrain, fruit loaf, pumpernickel, sourdough rye, stoneground wholemeal, Ploughman's loaf, Vogel Honey & Oat.
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Pita bread, croissant*, crumpet, white bread, hamburger bun, light rye bread, sourdough, rye, wholemeal bread, pizza.
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White, Bagels, waffles Wonderwhite, Dark Rye bread, French baguette, melba toast, Gluten-free bread.
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Crackers/Crispbreads/Biscuits/Cakes
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Jatz*, oatmeal, rich tea biscuits, banana cake, pound cake, apple muffin, sponge cake.
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Ryvita, Saos, Jatz, Breton wheat, stoned wheat thins, digestives,oatmeal, milk arrowroot, shredded wheatmeals, shortbread, flans, angel food cake* muesli bars with fruit, bran muffins, Blueberry muffin,
flaky pastry.
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Kavli, water crackers, rice cakes, pretzels, crackerbread, puffed crispbread, morning coffee, vanilla wafer, donuts (cinnamon).
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Grains/Pasta
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Wheat pasta, noodles, egg fettucine, vermicelli, meat ravioli, macaroni, tortellini, spaghetti, long grain white rice, pearl barley, buckwheat, bulgur, semolina, cracked wheat, popcorn.
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Buckwheat, brown rice, Doongara, Basmati rice, taco shells, gnocchi, couscous, maize cornmeal, macaroni cheese (packet).
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Sunbrown quick rice, Calrose shortgrain rice, Instant cooked, tapioca, Corn chips, millet, rice pasta.
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Legumes/nuts
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Soya beans, kidney beans, lentils, butter beans, chick peas, haricot beans, lentils, baked beans, bengal gram, blackeyed beans
all nuts
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Green gram dahl, green pea soup, split pea soup.
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Broad beans, lima beans, pinto beans.
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Vegetables
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Green peas, sweet corn, sweet potato, carrots.
potato crisps*
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New canned potatoes, new potatoes, beetroot.
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French fries*, baked potatoes, pumpkin, parsnip, potatoes (Pontiac, Sebago, Desiree, instant).
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Fruit
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Cherries, plums, grapefruit, peaches, apples, pears, dried apricots, grapes, kiwi fruit, oranges, jam.
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Mango, paw paw, sultanas, bananas (just ripe), raisins, rockmelon, pineapple, fresh apricots,
canned fruit in syrup.
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watermelon, very ripe "medium fruits".
dates
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Dairy Foods
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Whole milk, skim milk, chocolate milk, low fat flavoured yoghurt, artificially sweetened yoghurt, low fat ice-cream*, custard, soy milk
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Icecream (full fat).
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Tofu frozen dessert
Vitari frozen fruit
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Sugars
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Fructose (fruit sugar).
Nutella
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Lactose (milk sugar), Sucrose, honey.
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Glucose, Glucodin, jellybeans, lifesavers, maltose.
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Beverages
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Apple juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice, Sustagen.
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Cordial, Fanta.
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Lucozade, Gatorade, Sports Plus.
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* These foods have a high fat content and should be eaten only occasionally
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