Ive been searching for something like this for nearly 18 months. I stumbled upon it looking at “Inulin” (thanks, you know who you are 
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This site has a searchable database for glycemic index. I cant vouch for its accuracy, but its a start.
If anyone knows of something similar for insulin response, please share.
There’s a study that evaluates foods based on the amount of insulin needed by T1Ds (who produce no insulin) to cover the response to food. Note: this is not the same as measuring the insulin response to a food, which will vary greatly from person to person if they aren’t a T1D.
Get file thesis2, go to Appendix 3 - FII database
https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/11945
Thank you! Unless somebody else beats me to it, I plan on converting that table in index 2 into a table compatible with the forum. This is extremely useful data. I cant thank you enough for this.
I might not be able to do this for a few days. I just started working again after a 3 year hiatus. Back to being a technician again. I had given up looking, and they came to me with the offer. So… I’m going to be all business all the time for a while
I will refer you to Optimizing Nutrition for that. But with the disclaimer that I disagree with some of his conclusions in various places being useful advice for insulin resistant people. His wife is a T1D and so he is looking at it from that angle.
Hmmmmm. Cheese has higher index than pasta? Eggs almost as much and peanuts lowest of all? Seems not sensible to me.
I think they’re usung caloric equivalent amounts or something, so I take their findings skeptically also.
It tells us little about how much insulin is produced endogenously in reaction to a specific food.
This insulin response to certain foods. We already know that sweet tasting food, even with zero glycemic index, can cause a spike in insulin. So I think it may be possible for some foods to cause unexpected insulin release.
But then again, has this been peer reviewed? Questioning it is the right thing to do. Dont we just wish Dr Keys research was questioned in the 1950’s instead of being accepted whole heartedly by medical experts?