Jowar idli (sorghum idli)
Measured glycemic index 61.3 ± 5.1 — medium — from Indian J Med Res 2022.
Reported value — glycemic index
61.3± 5.1 SD
Jowar idli (sorghum idli) was assayed at 61.3 ± 5.1 against glucose as 100, which places it in the medium band on the published divisions. The preparation tested was described as “Sorghum idli”.
For two idli, about 80 g, carrying about 22.1 g of available carbohydrate, the glycemic load works out at about 13.5 — medium for that portion.
The band describes the food. It is a group mean from a feeding study, not a prediction of what this food will do in your blood.
SOURCE·Indian J Med Res 2022·assayed preparation: Sorghum idli·REVIEWED JUL 2026
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How a glycemic index is assayed
- Volunteers eat a portion of the test food containing exactly 50 g of available carbohydrate — whatever weight of that food that turns out to be.
- Their blood glucose is sampled repeatedly over the following two hours, and the area under that curve is measured.
- The same people are tested against 50 g of pure glucose, which scores 100 by definition. The test food's area is expressed as a percentage of it.
- The published value is the group mean, and it carries a standard deviation — several of the Indian values on this site have one of five points or more.
- Nothing in that sequence can be shortcut. A glycemic index cannot be derived from a composition table, so a food with no study has no glycemic index here.
GI = (area under the food's 2 h glucose curve
/ area under 50 g glucose) x 100
GL = GI x available carbohydrate in the portion (g) / 100
Bands: low 0-55 | medium 56-69 | high 70+
Assay record
The measured value
| Glycemic index (glucose = 100) | 61.3 ± 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Category | Medium — 56 to 69 |
| Preparation tested | Sorghum idli |
| Available carbohydrate reported | 27.6 g per 100 g |
| Glycemic load, two idli, about 80 g | 13.5 (medium) |
| Measured by | Shobana S, Geetha G, Ramya Bai M, et al. Carbohydrate profiling & glycaemic indices of selected traditional Indian foods. Indian J Med Res 2022;155(1):56–65. |
Glycemic load arithmetic: 61.3 × 22.1 g ÷ 100 = 13.5. The carbohydrate figure comes from the same study, so the calculation stays inside one dataset.
SOURCE·Indian J Med Res 2022·single-study record; no figure borrowed from another dataset·REVIEWED JUL 2026
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SOURCE·Published reference ranges + GI tables·REVIEWED JUL 2026
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