Below you can find a complete chart for American Indian/Alaska Native Foods with its estimated glycemic index and glycemic load ranks.
Name | GI | GL |
Moose, meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Mashu roots, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Moose, liver, braised (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oil, bearded seal (Oogruk) (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oopah (tunicate), whole animal (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Owl, horned, flesh, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, smoked and canned (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, smoked, brined (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Duck, scoter, white-winged, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sea cucumber, yane (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Squirrel, ground, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Tea, tundra, herb and laborador combination (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Walrus, meat, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Deer (venison), sitka, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, bowhead, subcutaneous fat (blubber) (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, bowhead, skin and subcutaneous fat (muktuk) (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oil, whale, bowhead (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, whitefish, broad, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Mush, blue corn with ash (Navajo) | low | medium |
Cornmeal, blue (Navajo) | high | high |
Melon, banana (Navajo) | low | medium |
Chilchen (Red Berry Beverage) (Navajo) | low | low |
Corn, dried (Navajo) | high | high |
Squash, Indian, cooked, boiled (Navajo) | low | low |
Bread, kneel down (Navajo) | high | medium |
Mutton, cooked, roasted (Navajo) | low | low |
Frybread, made with lard (Navajo) | low | medium |
Tamales (Navajo) | high | medium |
Stew, steamed corn (Navajo) | low | high |
Fish, halibut, raw, with skin (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, coho (silver), raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Blueberries, wild, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oil, spotted seal (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, red, canned, bones removed (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, whitefish, eggs (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, rump meat, half dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), canned, smoked (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), kippered (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king, with skin, kippered, (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, sheefish, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, raw (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, partially dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, cooked (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, raw (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Corn, dried, yellow (Northern Plains Indians) | high | high |
Smelt, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Frybread, made with lard (Apache) | low | low |
Corned beef and potatoes in tortilla (Apache) | high | medium |
Mouse nuts, roots (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Mouse nuts, seedlings (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Octopus (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, pike, northern, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Rhubarb, wild, leaves (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, tipnuk, fermented (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, kippered, canned (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, ringed, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, ringed, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Soup, fish, homemade (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sourdock, young leaves (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Walrus, meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Walrus, meat and subcutaneous fat raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Walrus, liver, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oil, walrus (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, whitefish, mixed species, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, whitefish, broad, head, eyes, cheeks and soft bones (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Willow, leaves in oil (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Willow, young leaves, chopped (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Corn, white, steamed (Navajo) | high | high |
Cornmeal, white (Navajo) | high | high |
Cornmeal, yellow (Navajo) | high | high |
Squash, Indian, raw (Navajo) | low | low |
Tortilla, includes plain and from mutton sandwich (Navajo) | low | high |
Stew, dumpling with mutton (Navajo) | low | medium |
Stew, hominy with mutton (Navajo) | low | medium |
Stew, mutton, corn, squash (Navajo) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, sockeye (red), raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, Salmon, Chum, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, king (chinook), raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Salmonberries, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, shoulder meat, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, hind quarter meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, dried, in oil (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, whitefish, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, low quadrant, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, salmon, chum, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Elk, free range, ground, cooked patties (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Elk, free range, ground, raw (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, cooked (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Chokecherries, raw, pitted (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Steelhead trout, dried, flesh (Shoshone Bannock) | low | low |
Steelhead trout, boiled, canned (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Acorn stew (Apache) | low | low |
Agutuk, fish/berry with seal oil (Alaskan ice cream) (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Agutuk, meat-caribou (Alaskan ice cream) (Alaska Native) | medium | low |
Ascidians (tunughnak) (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, beluga, flipper, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, beluga, liver, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Oil, beluga, whale (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Blackberries, wild, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, liver, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Stew/soup, caribou (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, tongue, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Chiton, leathery, gumboots (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, devilfish, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fireweed, young leaves, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, herring eggs on giant kelp, Pacific (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, herring eggs, Pacific, dry (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Stew, moose (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Agave, cooked (Southwest) | low | medium |
Agave, dried (Southwest) | high | high |
Cattail, Narrow Leaf Shoots (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Lambsquarters, raw (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Prairie Turnips, boiled (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Raspberries, wild (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Rose Hips, wild (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Chokecherries, raw, pitted (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Sea lion, Steller, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sea lion, Steller, kidney (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sea lion, Steller, heart (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sea lion, Steller, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Piki bread, made from blue cornmeal (Hopi) | high | high |
Wocas, tuber, cooked, Oregon, yellow pond lily (Klamath) | low | low |
Stew, pinto bean and hominy, badufsuki (Hopi) | low | low |
Tamales, masa and pork filling (Hopi) | low | low |
Bear, black, meat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Bear, polar, meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, beluga, meat, dried (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, beluga, eyes (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Whale, beluga, meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, blackfish, whole (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Blueberries, wild, frozen (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, bone marrow, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Caribou, eye, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Cloudberries, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Cockles, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Cranberries, wild, bush, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Cranberry, low bush or lingenberry, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, herring eggs, Pacific, plain (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, herring, Pacific, flesh, air-dried, packed in oil (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Huckleberries, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, lingcod, meat, raw (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Fish, lingcod, liver (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Tennis Bread, plain (Apache) | high | high |
Fish, halibut, cooked, with skin (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Salmon, red (sockeye), filets with skin, smoked (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Agave, raw (Southwest) | low | low |
Lambsquarters, steamed (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Prickly pears, raw (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Prickly pears, broiled (Northern Plains Indians) | low | low |
Prairie Turnips, raw (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Stinging Nettles, blanched (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Plums, wild (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Pinon Nuts, roasted (Navajo) | low | low |
Caribou, hind quarter, meat, cooked (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Agutuk, fish with shortening (Alaskan ice cream) (Alaska Native) | medium | medium |
Sea lion, Steller, meat with fat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Sea lion, Steller, fat (Alaska Native) | low | low |
Wocas, dried seeds, Oregon, yellow pond lily (Klamath) | high | high |
Hazelnuts, beaked (Northern Plains Indians) | medium | low |
Tea, herbal, brewed, Hohoysi (Hopi) | low | low |
Tortilla, blue corn, Sakwavikaviki (Hopi) | low | high |
Bread, blue corn, somiviki (Hopi) | low | high |