Foods GI Serve(g) Carb/serve(g) GL Vegetables and Vegetables Products White potato, cooked 41 150 30 12 Ga Kenkey, prepared from fermented cornmeal (Zea mays) (Ghana) 44 150 41 18 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), boiled 44 150 25 11 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) 44 150 25 11 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), peeled, cubed, boiled 30 min 46 150 32 15 Cassava, boiled, with salt (Kenya) 46 100 27 12 Sweet corn, whole kernel, dietpack, Featherweight, canned, drained, heated 46 80 14 6 Cassava, boiled, with salt (Kenya, Africa) 46 100 27 12 Sweet corn, frozen, heated in microwave (Green Giant, Pillsbury Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada) 47 80 15 7 New potato 47 150 21 10 Sweet potato, NS 48 150 34 16 Taro 48 150 8 4 Gari, roasted cassava dough (Manihot utilissima) (Ghana) 49 100 27 13 Potatoes boiled 49 150 30 15 Tannia, peeled, boiled 30 min, uncrushed (whole), refrigerated, reheated for 1 min 50 150 56 28 Yam 51 150 36 18 Butternut pumpkin, boiled 51 80 6 3 Yam, steamed 51 150 36 18 Parsnips, peeled, boiled 52 80 8 4 Steamed potato dumplings (60% white potatoes, 40% white wheat flour, boiled in salted water), consumed with olive oil, tomato sauce and parmesan cheese 52 150 45 23 Sweet corn, cooked 52 150 33 17 Tannia, peeled, boiled 30 min, crushed, refrigerated, reheated for 1 min 52 150 56 29 Taro (Colocasia esculenta) peeled, boiled 54 150 8 4 New potato 54 150 21 11 Potato, Type NS, peeled, boiled and then cooled to 26oC 54 150 30 16 White potato, boiled 54 150 27 15 Taro (Colocasia esculenta) peeled, boiled 54 150 8 4 Yam 54 150 36 19
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