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LOW GI |
VEGETABLES
Choose most often <30 Asparagus Beans Broccoli Cabbage Cauliflower Celery
Cucumber Eggplant Greens Lettuce Leeks Mushrooms
Okra Rapini Shallots Seaweed Snow Peas Spinach
Sprouts Sweet Potato Tomato Zucchini
Apple Banana (slightly
Raspberry, Blueberry, Loganberry, etc.)
Melon Orange Pears Peach Plum Lemon
Tropical fruit
Under-ripe)
FRUITS
BREAD & GRAINS
Berries: (Strawberry,
Cantaloupe Grapefruit Honeydew
Pumpernickle Bread (Dimflmeier) Heavy mixed grain bread Stone Mill Bakery Bread 100% Whole wheat bread Flaxseed/Linseed Bread 100% Whole grain Tortilla
Large flaked oats Steel cut oats Past (al dente or firm) Parboiled or converted rice Quinoa - Barely Oat bran - Bulgur
All bran Buds with Psyllium All Bran
Sweet peppers Cassava Sweet Corn Cherries Date Dried Temperate Fruit: (unsweetened)
Commercial rye bread (light/dark)
Whole grain rye bread (Dimpflmeier)
Couscous
VEGETABLES Dried Apricot Dried Figs Dried Peaches Dried Prunes
Lychee Papaya
Cream of wheat Doongara rice Millet Spelt bread Whole grain bread
Wild rice Basmati rice Brown Rice
LEGUMES
FRUITS
Grapenuts Popcorn Stoned Wheat Thins
Puffed Wheat Ryvita
Almond milk Chocolate ice cream Chocolate milk Custard
Frozen yogurt Ice cream Rice milk Soy milk, (Sweetened)
BREAD & GRAINS
COLD CEREALS & SNACKS
COLD CEREAL & SNACKS
MILK & DAIRY
| MED GI
Choose sometimes 50 - 70
MILK & DAIRY
Choose least often >70 |
Almond milk, unsweetened Cheese Cow milk (0%, 1%, 2% & whole) Soymilk, unsweetened Yogurt, unsweetened: (0%, 1%, 2% & whole) Baked beans Chickpeas Hummus Kidney beans Lentils/Dhal Mung beans
Romano beans Split peas Soybeans
Carrots, Parsnip Turnip/rutabaga Potato (white), Hot (mashed),
Fried (French fries)
Instant (white) potato
(boiled and baked),
Asian apples African cherry orange Banana
Grape Mango Persimmon
Pineapple, raw Pomegranate Watermelon
Bran Flaked Corn Flakes Rice Krispies
Potato chips Pretzels Rice Cakes
Soda Crackers Special K
Corn meal Cream of wheat (instant) Instant oatmeal Products made with white flour
HIGH GI
Whole wheat bread White and Whole wheat flat bread/ pita/naan/chapatti
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
COLD CEREALS & SNACKS
BREAD & GRAINS
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