The sandwich made with real bread and cheese has about three times more fiber than the one made with white bread and processed cheese — and that extra fiber might make your body work harder to digest it.

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

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2010 Jul 2

The study found that eating a whole-food cheese sandwich burns more calories after eating than a processed one, but it never measured how much fiber each sandwich had — so we can’t say the fiber difference is why.

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

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DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v54i0.5144

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The processed sandwich has way less fiber than the whole-food one — about one-third — which might make it easier for your body to digest and burn fewer calories.

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