Here's an interesting study reported on in the April 14,2007 issue of Appetite.
Researchers at Penn State investigated the effect that eating soup prior to a meal had on subsequent food intake during the meal. For one day a week for 5 weeks, 60 adults were given different forms of soup before eating lunch. The types of soup included broth and vegetables served separately, pureed vegetable soup, chunky-pureed vegetable soup and chunky vegetable soup.
Results were quite interesting.
Participants ate 20% fewer calories at each meal that followed eating soup, regardless of the type of soup eaten.
For those who want to cut calories...let them eat soup!
I have been reading about this technique in those "be French" diet/lifestyle books. It fills you up and it's satisfying. I get a little crazy at those "I'm on the chicken noodle diet" commercials... the canned soups can be plenty tasty, but even low sodium soups make me not able to wear rings or shoes. But it's so easy to make your own soup! Sometimes, I just take prepared broth and dump in a handful of chopped up leftover veggies and herbs. It takes mere minutes.
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Researchers at Penn State investigated the effect that eating soup prior to a meal had on subsequent food intake during the meal. For one day a week for 5 weeks, 60 adults were given different forms of soup before eating lunch. The types of soup included broth and vegetables served separately, pureed vegetable soup, chunky-pureed vegetable soup and chunky vegetable soup.
Results were quite interesting.
Participants ate 20% fewer calories at each meal that followed eating soup, regardless of the type of soup eaten.
For those who want to cut calories...let them eat soup!