Therefore, if you want to use the glycaemic index as a means of losing weight, you should focus on eating 3-5 serves of brightly coloured vegetables (not starchy ones like potato) every day. You should also choose starchy carbohydrates, which are low glycaemic index, such as low GI rices, rolled oats for porridge or muesli, and grains such as barley, buckwheat, bulgur, quinoa, or whole wheat kernels, you could also serve your pasta al dente.

Please let me know if this doesn’t make sense.

Marilyn – Thank you for your question. In order to ’score’ glycaemic index foods scientists use pure glucose as a reference point, giving it a GI score of 100. Foods that cause blood sugar levels to rise quickly are given a higher GI score. Foods that cause a slow increase in blood sugar levels are considered to be low GI foods.

Therefore, for this reason we do not have any values for the GI of white flour, or whole wheat flour, as these are not foods of themselves. The only figures (at least that I know of) would be those of breads using whole wheat flour etc.

The GI value of:

White flour bread is 71
Whole wheat flour bread is 67
Whole grain bread 51
Wheat bread made with cracked wheat kernals 48
Mixed grain bread 40

I don’t know if this helps. Please let me know if you need further clarrification.