Snacks provide, on average, about one-fourth of most people's daily calories. With nearly one in three adults in the United States overweight and more than two in five with obesity, according to the National Institutes of Health, researchers in the Penn State Sensory Evaluation Center are investigating how Americans can snack smarter.
Penn StateAug 2 2024 Snacks provide, on average, about one-fourth of most people's daily calories. With nearly one in three adults in the United States overweight and more than two in five with obesity, according to the National Institutes of Health, researchers in the Penn State Sensory Evaluation Center are investigating how Americans can snack smarter.
The most striking findings of our study is that people didn't eat fewer chips when dip was available -; they ate the same amount of chips, plus the dip. This lack of compensation means that adding dip to chips can substantially increase overall energy intake without people realizing it. Intuitively, many people would guess that if we add something extra to a snack, like dip, people will compensate, and eat less of the main item, Hayes explained.
Their intake was measured, and all eating sessions were video recorded and annotated for number of bites and active eating time. Researchers used that information to calculate measures of "eating microstructure," including eating rate and bite size. "Clearly, it has an influence on food intake, especially while snacking," she said. "However, in this chips-and-dip snack, the greater intake resulting from dip inclusion may have been facilitated by a larger total snack bite size, as opposed to faster chip eating rate."
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