Breads & grains
Instant oats
Pre-cooked and finely cut, they digest much faster than rolled oats.
- Glycemic index
- 79
- High GI
- Glycemic load
- 21
- High load
- Serving
- 1/2 cup dry
- 27 g carbohydrate
What this means
Instant oats is high-GI, so on its own it can raise glucose quickly. That doesn't make it off-limits: the portion size (its glycemic load) and what you eat alongside it matter just as much as the index.
Glycemic index measures speed; glycemic load measures the impact of the amount you actually eat. The best read is your own: a post-meal reading shows how your body handled it.
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GI is a rounded published reference and shifts with ripeness, processing, and the rest of your meal. General information, not medical advice.
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