Insulin-Index

The insulin index describes the typical effect of different foods on insulin levels. The insulin index is similar to the Glycemic Index, but it is not related to blood sugar levels, but the associated increase in insulin levels. The advantage of this scale is that a variety of foods such as meat or cheese cause an increase in insulin, although no carbohydrates are included. Some foods also produce insulin reactions, which are not the carbohydrate content or glycemic index ( GI ) is proportional.

Holt et al. found that the glycemic index and insulin index in most foods is strongly related, but that generate some foods with a lot of protein or highly refined carbohydrates a disproportionate increase of insulin.

Examples

White bread is given the value of 100 in the insulin index (as in the Glycemic Index ) by definition. Particularly high insulin increases are in potatoes (121 ), white beans (120) and gummy bears recorded (160). In comparison to the amount of carbohydrates particularly low insulin increases are recorded for ( white ) noodles ( 40) and rice (79). Unexpectedly, meat ( with virtually no carbohydrates) an insulin index of 51 and cheese 45 result.