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Why would one high-carb food have a different GL than another? Why does white rice, for instance, have a higher GL than, say, honey? It has to do with the way nature constructed them. Carbohydrates consist of starches and sugars. Starch -- think of starchy foods like beans and potatoes -- is made up of sugar molecules bound together in long chains. When you eat a carbohydrate- rich food, your body converts those starches and sugars into glucose, or blood sugar.Some starches, like those in white rice, are extremely easy for the body to convert, and therefore blood sugar levels rise like a hot temper after you eat them. Others, like those in beans, take a lot more work to break down, so blood sugar levels simmer rather than explode.
Four factors determine how fast the body breaks down carbohydrate.
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