X-Message-Number: 17693 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:17:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: 4'th update on food satiation experiments This is the forth update on my food satiation experiments, in which I compare the ad libitum calorie intake of various foods over a period of one day. I ate turkey/mustard sandwiches, using the same rye bread, which tested out by itself to yield a daily intake of 1388 calories. These sandwiches fell into the medium palatibility group. Possibly due to this increased palatibility, intake jumped significantly to 2371 calories. Next I tried rice cakes, also with turkey and mustard on them. Although this tasted okay, the texture of the rice cakes resembled styrofoam, and because of this this palatability was low. Intake was 1602 calories, which is similar to other low palatability foods. Finally I tried angel food cake, with raspberry jam on top. I selected this as a food with high air, and low calorie content per volume. This turned out to very palatable. However the cake proved to be very compressible during mastigation, and although the quantity looked like a lot on a plate, it proved not to be very filling. Intake was 2936 calories. At least this is still 1000 calories less than cookies. (LOW PALATABILITY) FOOD DAILY CALORIE INTAKE ___________________________________________ rye bread 1388 Gala apples 1413 chicken breast 1478 rye crispbread 1564 rice cake with turkey, mustard 1602 vegetables/cottage cheese 1768 potato 2179 (skipped lunch next day) MEDIUM PALATABILITY) FOOD DAILY CALORIE INTAKE ___________________________________________ yogurt, fruit, aspartame & Gala apples 1976 2% fat chocolate milk 2100 yogurt, fruit, sugar 2354 rye sandwich with turkey, mustard 2371 peanuts 2689 (malabsorption) (HIGH PALATABILITY) FOOD DAILY CALORIE INTAKE ___________________________________________ yogurt, fruit, aspartame 1483 angel food cake, jam 2936 cookies & chili 4055 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17693