Introducing Glycemic Lookup
Introducing Glycemic Lookup

A banana, strawberry and pineapple smoothy would improve anyone's day. Or would it?

Disclaimer: I built this tool because I was frustrated by looking at tiny, difficult to read PDF’s of GI tables on my phone. I am not a medical profession — and I relied on Wikipedia for a lot of the info in this post.

If you’re unsure or concerned about anything I’ve raised in this post, please see a physician.

Raise your hand if you’ve had lunch and had your productivity completed removed, with a sluggish, unproductive afternoon ahead of you.

Or maybe you didn’t quite get time to eat your lunch, and you started to feel faint.

You might know these situations are related to the amount of sugar in your blood. Maybe you recognise this as your blood glucose level. From Wikipedia, glucose is a sugar present in the blood of humans and animals. On average, 4grams of glucose is present in the blood of a 70kg (150lb) human.

However, this won’t always be the case. Whether you have diabetes, are fasting, or are experiencing other health factors, you may find your blood sugar level varies over time. Blood sugar levels in part a result of the food you eat. Blood sugar level changes are measured with a score known as the Glycemic Index.

Glycemic index (also known as a GI number) is a scoring system that highlights the impacts of on your blood sugar level from the carbohydrates in certain foods. By understanding these numbers, you can follow the effects that food will have on your blood sugar levels.

The GI describes how an individuals blood sugar level will change two after hours after eating a particular food. GI has a range of 0–100. A GI of 0 indicates zero carbohydrates present in that food, while 100 means the food is pure glucose. These scores can also be used in a related measure to calculate the Glycemic Load of different food groups, which tracks the precise amount of carbohydrates consumed in a particular meal.
['Jason Crabtree']
['Health', 'Diabetes', 'Food', 'Blood Sugar', 'Technology']