Does watermelon have a high glycemic index? “Yes, it’s true: watermelon has a high glycemic index, but—let me say once and for all—using the glycemic index as the sole criterion for evaluating whether a food is “good” or “bad” makes little sense, especially if taken alone, outside of the context of a meal,” Gabrielli points out.
The glycemic index measures how quickly a food raises blood sugar, but it does not take into account the quantity actually consumed (for that there is the glycemic load, a certainly more useful parameter), nor does it take into account the fact that in real life we eat this, or other fruits, within a meal or snack, perhaps after vegetables, proteins and fats, macronutrients that naturally modulate the absorption of sugars.
Compared to other fruits , such as mandarins, grapes, bananas and figs, watermelon also boasts a very small quantity of simple sugars : we are talking about 3-5 g per 100 g of edible pulp, depending on the type.
