Nutrition

New Zealand chocolate manufacturer reports low glycemic values for its chocolate

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 6th, 2004

Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ:SPEX) announced that the world's first tagatose-containing chocolate, Miada ChocoLite, is very low in Glycemic Load (GL) and estimated relative Glycemic Index (GI), according to newly performed studies.

Miada Corporation Limited's recent press release, stated that research commissioned by Miada and conducted by leading nutrition researcher Dr. Alison Wallace at the New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Ltd., showed that the chocolate tested had a GL of 1 and an estimated GI of 8. Readings below 10 for GL and below 55 for GI are considered low.

Earlier this year, Sydney University's Glycaemic Index Research...

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