Toasting Bread, does it alter the GI & GL?

[rt567]

Hiya

Many thanks in advance to those that are going to help.

If I was to medium plus toast my Burgens linseed and soya bread, and put on flora margarine and make into a tuan sandwich, is the GI &GL higher or lower than none toasted or lightly toasted bread?

 

[Patch]

Great question.

No idea.

 

[catherinecherub]

I have found one study that thinks it does if it has been frozen. This does refer to white bread so whether the answers would be the same for grained bread, who knows?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17426743

 

[noblehead]

Hiya

Many thanks in advance to those that are going to help.

If I was to medium plus toast my Burgens linseed and soya bread, and put on flora margarine and make into a tuan sandwich, is the GI &GL higher or lower than none toasted or lightly toasted bread?

Not sure but I expect it will (hopefully Phoenix will see this and provide the answer).

I do like my Burgen Soya & Linseed toasted, it awakens the flavour of the seeds

 

[carty]

The thing to do probably is to test to see if there is a difference in BGs
CAROL

 

[phoenix]

Preserving amylase foods for long periods at low temperatures (41° Fahrenheit) stimulates retrogradation. Something similar occurs with food drying processes. Dry bread, for example, loses its humidity and stimulates starch retrogradation, as in the case of toasted bread.

Although retrogradation does not wholly reverse food gelatinization, it does contribute to lowering foodstuffs’ Glycemic Indexes. Spaghetti (even white refined), for example, will have a 35 Glycemic Index if cooked al dente and eaten cold (in salads).

As we can see, the same bread (made from the same flour) can have a different GI depending on how it is prepared: freshly baked and still oven hot, dried or toasted. Fresh bread when frozen and thawed out at room temperature will also have a much lower GI.

http://www.montignac.com/en/the-factors ... c-indexes/

 

[Squire Fulwood]

Hiya

Many thanks in advance to those that are going to help.

If I was to medium plus toast my Burgens linseed and soya bread, and put on flora margarine and make into a tuan sandwich, is the GI &GL higher or lower than none toasted or lightly toasted bread?

So the question is...Does toasting something make it better. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................No.

 

[xyzzy]

Fresh bread when frozen and thawed out at room temperature will also have a much lower GI.

Agree on that. I only eat Burgen soya bread that's come out of the the freezer becuase I find the retrograding effect is quite significant. Straight from its frozen state then toasted and then you can lower the GI even more by scoring it and covering it with some real butter

 

[rt567]

Ok, thanks to all.
i did some hours research and came up with the "white bread" bit.

I'm feeling quiet thick, so to confirm, is the consensus that Burgens bread from frozen to toasted is much lower GI?
Thanks again.