Re: GI of banana bread(to Jodi)
From: maria (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 29 May 2002 15:37:34 -0500 (CDT)
my numbers are from this link which list GI for diff. foods:
http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
At Wed, 29 May 2002, jodi wrote:
>
>Where are you getting these numbers from???
>
>When I make banana bread - my mother's recipe - I use: bananas (duh),
>sugar, flour, crisco, and eggs. (It's been a while since I made it, but
>I believe those are all the ingredients.)
>
>Bananas, being a fruit, are (I think) a low-mid GI food. (I'm not
>really a huge plain banana fan so this is actually a number I never
>looked at too closely) Sugar and flour are both high GI foods.
>(Sometimes I have experimented, using whole wheat flour or honey...
>sometimes I have made some pretty nice messes in the kitchen...) Crisco,
>being pure FAT, and eggs, being fat + protein, are low GI foods. So in
>your banana bread, you've got some higher GI foods, some medium GI
>foods, and a good amount of fat along with a little protein. I would
>say that fat and protein bring down the overall blood-sugar raising
>properties of the finished product.
>
>Were you to make low-fat banana bread, it would be a different story.
>
>So... as for why a banana has a higher GI than banana bread, there is
>no fat/protein to offset the carbs. If you were to butter your banana,
>the GI would probably drop... but as far as I know, most normal people
>are not in the habit of buttering their bananas... though I did once
>know a girl who ate hers with ketchup...
>
>I can't imagine why banana bread made without sugar would be higher
>GI... only thing I can think of is, maybe the comparisons are for a
>regular banana bread and a dietetic banana bread, which might be fat
>free in addition to sugar free?
>
>At Wed, 29 May 2002, maria wrote:
>>
>>This doesn't make sense. If I make banana bread with sugar, it has a
>>lower GI than banana bread w/o sugar. And plain bananas have an even
>>higher GI???
>>
>>What is going on?
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