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a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.

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Words nearby glycemic index

glycaemia, glycaemic index, glycaemic load, glycation, glycemia, glycemic index, glyceraldehyde, glyceric, glyceric acid, glyceride, glycerin

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How to use glycemic index in a sentence

“Just keep a healthy low glycemic index diet, in general,” says Gohara.
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Its selling points were the product’s extremely low glycemic index and its ability to be manufactured from waste plant fibers, which means that it ultimately can be produced at a lower cost, according to Senkut.
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A helpful pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects.
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There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
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He stuck his index finger in the red welt around the spot where bin Laden shot me.
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The country was ranked 144 of 177 nations surveyed by Transparency International in its 2013 graft perception index.
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He soon invents the “Efram Daniels Expulsion Index (EDEI) … a hybrid futures and prediction market.”
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The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
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Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
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A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
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The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
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The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
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Scientific definitions for glycemic index

glycemic index

[ glī-sē′mĭk ]

A numerical index given to a carbohydrate-rich food that is based on the average increase in blood glucose levels occurring after the food is eaten.