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• The way the GI of a food is worked out doesn’t always relate to the amount of food we actually eat at one sitting (remember the parsnips!).

• GI can be very confusing.

• If you base your diet on low-GI, some very healthy foods are excluded, such as carrots, watermelon, parsnips, pumpkin and broad beans to name a few. These foods contain little carbohydrate per portion and have a low GL.

GI gives us the first part of the story. It tells us that not all carbohydrates are equal; some are absorbed more quickly than others. But it doesn’t take into account how much carbohydrate a food contains. This is where the Glycaemic Load or GL comes in.