Glycemic response of volunteers to the consumption of supplements and food formulas for oral and/or enteral nutrition

The objective of this study was to determine the glycemic index (GI) and load (GL) three products from Brazilian market used as a supplement food formula for oral and/or enteral nutrition. volunteers (n = 16) attended Food Research Center weekly six weeks after 10–12-h overnight fasting. Blood sampled in fasting state (t 0) at 15 min, 30 45 60 90 120 min starting eat each evaluated meal: glucose solution (reference food, times) products: Cubitan® vanilla (specific wounds healing), Diasip® chocolate, (diabetic supplements). GI determined by calculating area under response curve using trapezoidal rule ignoring areas below line considering be 100. To GL, it considered amount carbohydrates available standard serving product GI. studied showed low GL (Cubitan® 35, 6; chocolate 49, 7; 47, 7), with significant differences those reference but no difference between them. Similar results were also observed blood peak, which occurred consumption all products. considerably lower than food. presented response, shown slightly accentuated shape high peaks.