The glycemic index of raw carrots is 47. Kind of on the medium low side.

To calculate the glycemic load you divide the glycemic index by 100. Then you multiply the answer by the carbohydrate content in grams of the portion.

So say you eat about 10 mediumish carrots and thats about 65 grams of carbohydrate. That gives you a glycemic load of 30. Pretty low.

I think people may get the values for raw carrots and cooked carrots mixed up. For low glycemic raw carrots are good. Cooked carrots the number can go way higher. Say about 85...so that's quite a change.

One thing I think happens when people publish "diets" and give lists of exceptable and unexceptable foods based on GI values is that some of the foods of the 'bad' list are put there as much based on other prejudices against the food rather than the purported GI value. For instance grapes are low GI but they are always finding their way onto the "bad" list based on assumptions about sugar content and fruit making you fat...

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.