Q & A Thursday: the GI of different rices
Posted by kathryn in Carbohydrates and Q & A Thursday
As I mentioned in the last post , different rices have different GI values:
- Basmati rice = 58
- Brown rice = 60
- Arborio rice = 69
- Sunbrown Quick rice = 80
- Calrose = 83
- Glutinous rice = 98
- Jasmine = 109
In terms of comparison, a low GI value is below 55. A medium GI is 56 – 69, while a high GI food is anything over 70.
07 June, 2007
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That’s amazing… how come basmati and jasmine are so different?
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Stephanie, see the trackback, just above this comment, for your answer.
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