Is low GI food healthier? Part 3 低GI食品是否更健康? (三)
- Nutriholic2020
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min read



Last time we’ve explained what is Glycemic index, and the significance of glycemic load (GL) over GI, especially for people with diabetes. Now let's go back to the question: are low GI food necessarily healthier? We would say that low GI food would be part of a balanced diet but "low GI" does not entail healthy⚠️ There are quite a number of factors that could affect GI - not only the proportion of carbs in food, but also (not limited to) proportion of fat and protein. Food with a higher percentage of fat and protein could also have a lower GI, as they could slow down food digestion and hence the glucose release into your blood stream. For example, dark chocolate🍫Another example is that potato chips have a lower GI than boiled potatoes. Hence, simply looking into GI might not be a good way to decide if a food is healthy or not 🔖 上次我們解釋了什麼是GI,以及血糖負荷(GL)(尤其是對於糖尿病患者)的重要性。現在讓我們回到這個問題:低GI食品一定更健康嗎? 我們可以說低GI食品是促成均衡飲食的一部分,但“低GI”並不一定代表健康⚠️ 有很多因素會影響GI,不止食物中糖分的比例,也包括(但不限於)脂肪和蛋白質的比例。脂肪和蛋白質含量較高的食物也可能有較低的GI,因為它們會減慢食物的消化速度,從而使葡萄糖更慢釋放到血液中。其中一個例子是黑朱古力🍫另外,薯片的GI比煮熟的馬鈴薯的GI低。因此,只根據GI不是判斷食物是否健康的好方法哦!🔖
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