Barley bread containing lactic acid improves glucose
tolerance at a subsequent meal in healthy men and women
Not exact matches
Encouraging results were reached by the use of low - GI (LGI) foods to improve glucose
tolerance, both immediately after consumption and
at the
subsequent meal.
Jenkins et al (4) and Wolever et al (5) described this phenomenon as «the second -
meal effect» (SME) and identified the GI of the
meal preceding the second
meal as the determinant of the improved glucose
tolerance observed
at the
subsequent food consumption.