Table 3.
Sweet potato varieties | Glycemic index | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boiled | Fried | Baked | Roasted | |||||
Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | |
Dor | 47a | 3 | 76b | 4 | 83c | 6 | 86c | 4 |
Quarter Million | 49a | 4 | 70b | 6 | 94c | 3 | 91c | 2 |
Yellow Belly | 50a | 3 | 72b | 4 | 86c | 2 | 85c | 2 |
Ganja | 41a | 5 | 69b | 3 | 82c | 3 | 79c | 4 |
Watson | 43a | 4 | 67b | 4 | 85c | 2 | 87c | 2 |
Clarendon | 46a | 5 | 73b | 3 | 83c | 3 | 81c | 4 |
Minda | 49a | 4 | 68b | 3 | 91c | 3 | 89c | 3 |
Ms Mac | 45a | 3 | 63b | 2 | 87c | 4 | 85c | 4 |
Eustace | 49a | 5 | 77b | 4 | 93c | 5 | 93c | 2 |
Fire on Land | 46a | 4 | 75b | 3 | 87c | 4 | 90c | 3 |
Superscripts in rows sharing different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05).
Values are means ± SEM for n = 10 subjects.
§Glycemic index for each sample was calculated by expressing the IAUC as a percentage of the mean response area of glucose as outlined by Wolever et al. [16].