GIGL 4+

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.

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.

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.