Browsing by Subject "Satiety"

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    Effect of gazpacho, hummus and ajoblanco on satiety and appetite in adult humans: a randomised crossover study
    (MDPI, 2021-03-12) Gaspar Ros Berruezo; Rubén López Nicolás; Planes Muñoz, David; Frontela Saseta, María del Carmen; Ros Berruezo, Gaspar; López Nicolás, Rubén; Tecnología de Alimentos, Nutrición y Bromatología
    Nowadays, overweight and obesity has reached an epidemic level around the world. With the aim to tackle them, an interesting strategy is the study of food and ingredients with satiety properties. In addition to reducing food and/or calorie intake, this type of foods must be included as part of a healthy diet. With regard to this, it is well known that the Mediterranean Diet (MD) is a feeding pattern that helps us to maintain good health, providing an adequate intake of micronutrients and active compounds. With this background, the main aim of this research was to identify MD foods with a high satiating potential capacity. For this purpose, three typical foods of the Mediterranean region, mainly based on vegetables, were selected: hummus, ajoblanco and gazpacho. As a control, white bread was used. Twenty-four human healthy volunteers consumed a standard breakfast followed by the different typical Mediterranean foods, and then the subjective sensation of hunger and satiety for each food was assessed by visual analogue scales (VAS) during 3 h. Subsequently, volunteers had ad libitum access to a standard meal. The results indicate that gazpacho showed the highest satiating scores, despite the fact that it was not the food that provided the highest protein or fibre amount. More studies of this type are needed to determine the proportion and/or combination of ingredients from these classical Mediterranean recipes that could enhance human satiety.
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    Empleo de semillas como ingrediente saciante: chía y sésamo
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de publicaciones, 2021) Gil Gallego, María Teresa; Planes Muñoz, David; López Nicolás, Rubén
    Debido al gran aumento de la prevalencia del sobrepeso y obesidad en todo el mundo, ha aumentado el inte-rés de estudio de los mecanismos que llevan a la población a un desequilibrio energético, aumentando su peso corporal de forma excesiva. El control de la ingesta de energía va determinado por la percepción de la saciedad durante y después de las comidas. Hay ciertos alimentos que por sus características nutricionales (cantidad de fibra, hidratos de carbono, proteína y grasa) pueden influenciar de forma positiva sobre el apetito (disminuyen-do el deseo por la comida). Por ello sería una buena estrategia nutricional ver cuáles de los alimentos presenta mayor relación sobre la saciedad. Realizamos un ensayo clínico cruzado aleatorizado con un periodo de lavado de 5 días, como mínimo. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar el efecto de las semillas de sésamo y chía (por su gran cantidad de fibra soluble) sobre la saciedad (introducidas junto con yogur en el desayuno). La muestra estaba formada por 18 voluntarios. Cada voluntario realizó los 3 tipos de desayunos de forma aleatoria: (café con leche o té con leche + tostada con aceite de oliva y sal) + (yogur, yogur con chía o yogur con sésamo). Antes del desayuno tuvieron que rellenar una encuesta sobre apetito (VAS) y después 7 más (a los 15, 45, 75, 105, 135, 165 y 195 minutos tras el desayuno). Para valorar el efecto saciante de las semillas, se analizaron las preguntas del VAS que presentan relación directa con la saciedad, y se realizó un ANOVA. Los resultados mos-traron que no había diferencias estadísticamente significativas (p>0.05) entre las semillas estudiadas
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    The Iron and Calcium Availability and the Satiating Effect of Different Biscuits
    (MDPI, 2023-09-15) Martínez-Martínez, Antonio; Planes Muñoz, David; Ros Berruezo, Gaspar; López Nicolás, Rubén; Frontela Saseta, María del Carmen; Tecnología de Alimentos, Nutrición y Bromatología
    Biscuits are bakery products made with wheat flour. Wheat is a good source of minerals and dietary fibre, although the presence of phytate or other components could modify mineral availability. In addition, cereal-based products are usually characterised by high fibre content that can influence satiety. The objectives of this study were to evaluate both the iron and calcium availability and the satiety effect of different types of biscuits (traditional recipe vs. “Digestive”) sold in the Spanish market, identifying whether the biscuit type could have effects on these parameters. Nutritional composition and the use of the generic descriptor “Digestive” of biscuits were collected from labels. Phytate and mineral contents were also measured. All samples were previously digested by a simulated process of the gastrointestinal conditions. The satiating effect of biscuits was evaluated according to VAS questionnaires. Results indicated that the mineral content and availability were different between types of biscuits (the traditional recipe showed the highest calcium concentration, while iron was higher in the “Digestive” type). However, mineral availability showed the highest percentages for both minerals, calciumand iron, in the Maria-type samples. Regardless of the different fibre content of both types of biscuits, and despite being higher in the Digestive type than in the Maria type, the satiety measures indicated that the Maria type had more effect on the food intake control. Thus, the descriptor “Digestive¨ in biscuits does not seem to be a marker of better nutritional quality, including parameters of effects on health such as mineral availability or satiety.