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Re:Thoughts on the potato diet by oarabbus_ on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:42AM (#32066423)
>Potatoes are the highest scoring food on the satiety index. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/15-incredibly-filling-f...

They certainly didn't calculate this index by weight, because per gram eggs are far more filling than potatoes

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Re:Thoughts on the potato diet by bckygldstn on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:54AM (#32066506)
Satiety index is normalised by calories rather than weight [1]. If it were normalised by weight, calorie density would dominate any satiety effect.

[1] http://www.ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload...

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