Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer

Re:Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer by foooeee on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:53AM (#13828674)

Totally this. That's the problem I have with this trend for liquid food: you're eating food without chewing, and chewing is an essential part of the eating process as it gets saliva flowing, it exercises your jaw and sends signals to your digestive system to prepare.

And besides, texture is as much a part of food as taste and how it looks.

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Re:Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer by giardini on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:25PM (#13830865)

Any starches (complex sugars) in food are usually first broken down by saliva in the mouth while chewing. The enzyme amylase in saliva breaks starches into simpler sugars.

Drinking food likely reduces the amylase content of the bolus (dose of food entering stomach) and should consequently slow the digestion of starches and sugars in that food.

The pancreas secretes another form of amylase, so starches would eventually be digested anyway, just not as quickly. So your stomach would hold food longer and your pancreas would have to work a bit more.

Not a bad thing: I often eat only because "my stomach feels empty". Perhaps this would reduce that feeling.

"Amylase":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase

"Role of Amylase":

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/role-amylase-8526.html

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