United StatesGIGL is an offline, accessible resource for glycemic indices and glycemic loads for diabetics, pre-diabetics or those on a ketogenic diet. All data is from the University of Sydney's Glycemic Index database, and the app provides links to the original records on glycemicindex.com.
If you need info on the foods this lists, then you aren’t interested in your health.
2,000 entries total they say. But I was only able to find 37 “raw” foods. Those were all fruits. Mostly this lists processed foods. For example, one of the items that came up when I searched for “raw” was cupcakes. There’s nothing raw or whole food about cup cakes. The idea behind this app is excellent. But it’s like whoever developed the database has heard the terms glycemic impact and glycemic load but doesn’t really understand what’s useful. Most people who need this information are not shopping in the center of the supermarket. They aren’t pickup up boxed cake mixes or Mac and Cheese. This seems like a good app for teenagers who are sitting around at a slumber party trying to look up all the junk food they are eating. Here’s the thing. This app could have a global reach. But processed foods in the US are different from those in India. And those are different from the ones in China. Or Africa. But what is the same everywhere are the raw ingredients that go into our food. Wheat flour is basically the same globally. Same for lentils. Same for black beans, rice, fruit, meat. But folks in China don’t need to know about a brand of bread in the US. I’m more than a little be judgy when I say that if you are looking for glycemic impact or glycemic load info on prepared foods, then you’ve already lost the battle and should just make sure your insurance premiums are paid up. Because you can’t be healthy and eat the processed stuff. And by extension, this app can’t really help you get healthy.
United StatesCould not find any foods only products
I really need an app that allows me to find the GI and GL for a variety of foods. All I could find here is processed, packaged foods, and most of those I don’t even know if they’re sold in the U.S. For example, typed in peanut butter. This app only showed a bunch of products that apparently contain peanut butter. Useless to me. Searched for cucumbers, bell peppers found no information at all. Had to delete app.
United StatesFoods not listed
I cannot find many vegetables that I searched. Example: cucumber & bell peppers. And when I tried to compare types of food (gala vs red delicious), I could not find them. The idea is great and what I need, however, execution was poor.
United StatesThis app gives wrong info
This app is awful. The glycemic load is wrong on just about every food. If GL is GI x carb grams in listed serving size divided by 100. It is severely overestimating GL. For example, special k is GI of 61 x 21 grams carb in a 30 gram or 1 ounce portion = 1281 divided by 100 = 12.8 GL. NOT the 42.7 listed!! Am I missing something? The app comes with no alternative explanation. If you click on the more info link on the bottom of the page it takes you to Glycemicindex.com where the info is correct.
United States
We've corrected our GL calculation to use the same method as Sydney Uni's. We previously adjusted for serving size (to prevent sugary foods with a small serving size from appearing healthy) but this confused a few of our users so we do everything by the book, the Sydney Uni way now.
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