| If you'll forgive my taking another bite at the apple...
I might say it this way: Apples, and other fruit increase in glycemic index as they ripen partly due to the reduction in acid which is known to slow digestion of starches and sugars, and partly because the starches are transformed to sugars as fruit ripens. Variation in blood glucose levels resulting from consumption of fruits is not limited just to categories of fruit e.g. apples versus oranges, varieties of apples vary considerably and even an individual apple will vary with time, fresh from the tree being best to keep blood sugars lower. Then there are the biological variations of persons consuming apples, physical and emotional states (e.g. stress), and what other foods are consumed at the same time, all of which effect the outcome to some degree or another.
__________________ T2 Dx 9/2007 A1c 8.8, 12/2007 6.0, 4/2008 5.7, 9/2008 6.1
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