Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population, glycemic load, and meal consumption.

	Medium-high GI (n = 95)			High-medium GI (n = 94)
	Period 1	Period 2	p	Period 1	Period 2	p
Age (years), mean ± SD	11.8 ± 0.7			11.7 ± 0.8
Female, n (%)	43 (45)			41 (44)
Glycemic load	68 ± 34	103 ± 51	<0.001	111 ± 62	66 ± 37	<0.001
Meal consumption (g)	266 ± 147	264 ± 133	0.89	292 ± 162	270 ± 155	0.08

Sequence medium-high GI: participants received lunch with medium GI rice in the first period and high GI rice in the second period; sequence high-medium GI: vice versa, paired t test, mean ± SD, p < 0.05.

GI glycemic index.