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Energy balance
Energy density, hyper-palatability, protein content, and eating rate significantly contribute to energy intake during meals.
Practitioners should consider these meal characteristics when assessing energy intake.
StrongSupportsmedium confidence
All four meal characteristics significantly contributed to energy intake.
Why this rating
Based on the study design involving multiple meals and participants.
Source
A data-driven approach to quantifying meal characteristics influencing energy intake
Tera L. Fazzino et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
DOI 10.1101/2022.05.08.491083
cohort · n=35Cited 1×
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