Even though your body burns more calories digesting a sandwich made with real ingredients, you don’t feel any fuller than if you ate one made with processed ingredients.

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Postprandial energy expenditure in whole-food and processed-food meals: implications for daily energy expenditure

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2010 Jul 2

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Postprandial energy expenditure in whole-food and processed-food meals: implications for daily energy expenditure

Score: 51

DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v54i0.5144

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Even though one sandwich is made with real ingredients and the other with processed stuff, people feel just as full after eating both — so the extra calories burned after the whole-food sandwich isn’t because they felt fuller.

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Even though one sandwich is made with real ingredients and the other with processed stuff, people feel just as full after eating both — so the difference in calorie burning isn’t because one makes you feel fuller.

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Even though one sandwich is made with real ingredients and the other with processed stuff, people feel just as full after eating both — the body doesn’t tell the difference in fullness.

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Your body keeps burning calories longer after eating a sandwich made with real ingredients than one made with processed stuff — about an extra hour.

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Even though the whole-food sandwich had a bit more protein (which burns more calories), that alone couldn’t explain why it burned almost twice as many calories — so the processing must be the real reason.

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