When you eat fruits, your body absorbs their fructose. However, your cells can’t use fructose as a source of energy, as they prefer the form of blood sugar called glucose. To fix this problem, enzymes in your liver convert much of the fructose in fruit to glucose, which is then releas...
Bell peppers have a glycemic index of 401. Foods with a GI of 55 or less are considered low glycemic index foods, according to the University of Sydney, Australia1. If a food has a GI of 56 to 69 it’s a medium-GI food and if it has a value of 70 it is a high-GI food. Fe...