Determination of glycemic index of pumpkin flakes

Abstract

This randomize cross-over study was carried out to determine the gycemic index value of pumpkin flakes with skin (PFWS) and pumpkin flakes with flesh pumpkin (PFFP) among healthy young adult aged 22 to 24 years old. The assessment of the glycemic index (GI) seems to be an important parameter to take into account in order to better understand the physiologic effects of foods with high carbohydrate levels. This study also was carried out to observe the blood glucose response onto the subjects after consuming both of the flakes. Simple randomized sampling has been done among students from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). After 10 to 12 hours fasting, subjects were asked to eat each test meal and reference carbohydrate (glucose), at different time within 15 minutes. Finger-prick capillary blood samples were taken at 0, 15, 30, 45, 90 and 120 minutes after eating the meals.