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NutrInsight • Satiety: from appetite sciences to food application
Conclusion
Foods and dietary patterns that enhance satiety may provide benefits to consumers. The scientific literature contains convincing evidence of short-term satiety benefits, but only probable evidence for longer-term benefits to hunger management, possible evidence of benefits to mood, and inadequate evidence that satiety enhancement can promote weight loss.
The notion that enhanced satiety could only benefit consumers by a direct effect on food intake should be rejected. Instead there is a variety of routes through which enhanced satiety could indirectly benefit dietary control, weight management, or healthy lifestyle goals. These routes include providing appetite control strategies for consumers generally and for those who are highly responsive to food cues, offering pleasure and satisfaction associated with low-energy/healthier versions of foods without feeling “deprived”, reducing dysphoric mood associated with hunger especially during energy restriction, and improved compliance with healthy eating or weight management efforts.
• Satiety enhancement is desirable to consumers.
• Satiety promotion may strengthen the internal satiety cues and offer dieters pleasure without deprivation.
• Satiety could assist consumers with compliance (healthy diet or weight loss) since perceived hunger is a barrier to dietary compliance.
• Enhanced satiety may confer consumer benefits including those related to weight management.
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