Glycemic index of cereals and tubers produced in China

Table 1 Glycemic index of some sugars (mean ± SD)

Name	n	GI
Glucose	10	65.0 ± 6.3
Fructose	10	23.0 ± 4.6
Lactose	10	46.0 ± 3.2
Chocolate	10	49.0 ± 8.0
Maltose	10	105.0 ± 5.7
Maltose 2	10	75.0 ± 20.3
White sugar	10	83.8 ± 12.1
Honey	10	73.5 ± 13.3

Table 2 Glycemic index of cereal products (mean ± SD)

Food name	n	GI	Food name	n	GI
Cooked rice	12	83.2 ± 3.1	Steamed bread (refined)	9	88.1 ± 20.2
Brown rice (cooked)	10	87.0 ± 5.0	Wheat pancake	10	79.6 ± 11.5
Sticky rice (cooked)	10	87.0 ± 7.0	Wheat dough, deep-fried	8	74.9 ± 21.0
Sticky rice2 (cooked)	9	88.0 ± 5.6	Bread (refined wheat)	10	87.9 ± 10.2
Sticky rice (higher amylose)	10	50.0 ± 6.0	Bread (whole wheat)	10	69.0 ± 10.4
Rice porridge	10	69.4 ± 18.5	Bread (whole wheat with dried fruit)	10	47.0 ± 7.0
Sticky rice porridge	9	65.3 ± 20.6	Wheat Noodle( dried)	10	46.0 ± 5.8
Black rice porridge	9	42.3 ± 9.0	Wheat Noodle( fresh)	8	81.6 ± 19.1
Rice bran porridge	9	19.0 ± 3.0	Dumpling (shallot + meat)	10	28.0 ± 9.9
			Steamed stuffed bun (shallot + meat)	10	39.1 ± 13.0
Rice cake	8	82.0 ± 7.2	Biscuit (thin)	9	81.0 ± 7.5
Instant rice (in hot water 3 min)	10	46.0 ± 8.5	Biscuit	9	72.0 ± 15.5
Instant rice (cooked 6 min)	10	87.0 ± 5.5	Danone biscuit 1	9	47.1 ± 12.4
Corn powder porridge	10	68.0 ± 10.6	Danone biscuit 2	9	39.3 ± 11.8
Corn granule	10	51.8 ± 9.2	Cake crisp	10	59.0 ± 6.0
Corn flake	9	78.5 ± 12.2	Powder (buckwheat)	8	54.0 ± 3.0
Corn flake 2	9	74.0 ± 10.0	Noodle (buckwheat)	9	59.3 ± 3.0
Oatmeal (unpackaged)	9	55.0 ± 6.1	Bread (buckwheat)	8	66.7 ± 6.0
Oatmeal	8	83.0 ± 18.7	Instant noodle (buckwheat)	8	53.2 ± 5.0
Porridge (instant)	8	69.4 ± 7.2	Millet porridge	8	61.5 ± 9.0
Popcorn	6	55.0 ± 2.0	Powder (various cereals)	9	57.9 ± 3.5
Sweet corn (cooked)	10	55.0 ± 5.0	Whole wheat powder	10	42.0 ± 7.5
Oat biscuit	10	55.0 ± 2.5	Nutritional pancake	8	65.7 ± 5.3
Barley flake	7	69.0 ± 7.3	Biscuit	7	70.0 ± 8.3
Rice (S+R) porridge	9	65.5 ± 16.0	WoTao (Corn+wheat)	10	64.9 ± 16.5

Table 3 Glycemic index of tubers (mean ± SD)

Food	n	GI
Potato (cooked)	10	66.4 ± 3.8
Potato (steam)	10	62.0 ± 5.7
Potato crisp (oil fry)	10	60.3 ± 7.0
Potato noodle (with meat)	9	16.7 ± 10.4
Cake (Cushawand potato)	8	108.0 ± 13.4
Yam (steam)	10	51.0 ± 12.0
Yam (cooked)	10	54.0 ± 5.5
Potato mashed	10	73.0 ± 9.2
Potato noodle	9	13.6 ± 2.1
Sweet potato (red, cooked)	8	76.7 ± 12.3
Taro (cooked)	7	47.7 ± 12.7
Pill potato+yam powder	9	34.5 ± 11.7
Lotus root powder	8	32.6 ± 17.0