Potion Making Meals Full Longer

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This is the dream of the woman who was doing the diet: food that makes them feel full longer thus helping to overcome the problem of obesity. These dreams seem to be immediately reached.

Scientists in England have developed a mixture of olive oil-based, which if added to milkshakes, will drastically reduce appetite. The dough is developed by researchers at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in Norwich is to use olive oil, water, and stabilizers used in the bread industry. These stabilizers are used to ensure that some of the dough can maintain a pregnancy. The test results show, a mixture of food with this dough will make the respondents feel more satiated tests during 12 hours after eating.

This three-year project found that the emulsion of olive oil and water-principle also applied to the salad dressing could be an alternative in influencing their reactions in the acidic environment of the stomach. The researchers developed two types of emulsions, which stabilized with different compounds commonly used in food industry, namely Tween 60 and Span 80. Tween oil and water to keep stable in the stomach, while the Span allows him to break the layer of water and oil layers.

This dough flavored coffee, and given as a milkshake-style drinks to 11 volunteers. Their stomachs were scanned every hour to see how the material remains. After one hour, the volume inside the stomach to be doubled, from eating the dough made from Tween, where water and oil are not separated. This is because when the water separating the water leaves the stomach faster. But the water mixed with oil will stay there longer, making the respondents feel more satisfied and reduces appetite.

Experts believe that more than half the adult population in England will be obese by 2050 if they do not change your diet or exercising more often. Failure to change this lifestyle will cause an increase in the number of patients with heart disease, stroke and cancer. But Martin Wickham, of IFR, said that the average dietary supplements containing these ingredients would require about five years to get into the supermarket.

"Keeping the weight increases are not that important, and (herb) is a way more acceptable than restricting food intake in the diet," he explained.

IFR team is now planning to add this emulsion on processed foods such as burgers, hot dogs, and fries, to see if the same effect.


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