Glycemic Index : How Low Can You Go?

Glycemic Index (GI) is a value used to measure how much a food has an effect on increasing blood sugar. The scale is 0–100, below 55 is low, 55–69 is moderate and 70 and above is high.

It is very important for a combination of foods that tend to be low in GI, because this has an impact on lower blood sugar, controlled weight and lower cholesterol.

Foods that do not contain carbohydrates such as meat, fish, chicken and oil have no impact on the GI. Some types of fruit such as berries, grapes, oranges and vegetables generally have a low GI value — so they are good for controlling blood sugar, weight and cholesterol.

The problem, of course, is that we don’t feel enough of these kinds of foods only. We feel we haven’t eaten if we haven’t eaten rice or bread, it’s not good drink if it’s not sweet, the average cake is considered bad if it doesn’t have sweetness and so on.

There is nothing wrong with loving these sweet foods, because the Prophet also liked sweet foods. It’s just that the source of the sweet taste of the Prophet’s era, of course, did not come from sugar as we use today. The source of the natural sweetness is in fruits.

That’s the concept we are trying to bring back with what we call Fruitener — Fresh Fruit Sweetener. With UASE (Ultrasound Assisted Solvent Extraction) technology, we can present the sweet taste of these real fruits with a very low GI, which is in the range of 12.

Even subsequent efforts with modifications to the ingredients can produce a very-very low fruit sweetness in the range of the GI number 4. Actually, it can also be reduced further to 0 (nul) GI, but only the sweet taste remains, the sensation of fruit taste and other ingredients are lost.

In essence, this is good news for sweet taste lovers, you don’t have to give up the whole enjoyment of this one taste, you just need to be selective in choosing the sweetness sources— choose those with very low GI value.