The Claim

In healthy adults with elevated fasting glucose, consuming 10 grams of resistant maltodextrin with a 75-gram carbohydrate rice meal significantly enhances subjective satiety over 180 minutes without significantly altering glucose, insulin, or GLP-1 responses.

Source: Differential Modulation of Postprandial Glycemic, Incretin, and Satiety Responses by Low-Digestible Carbohydrates in Humans: An Exploratory Investigation

What the research says

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In plain English

In adults with high fasting blood sugar, eating 10 grams of resistant maltodextrin with a rice meal increases feelings of fullness for three hours without changing blood sugar, insulin, or GLP-1 levels.

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In healthy adults with elevated fasting glucose, consuming 10 grams of resistant maltodextrin with a 75-gram carbohydrate rice meal significantly enhances subjective satiety over 180 minutes without significantly altering glucose, insulin, or GLP-1 responses, suggesting a mechanical rather than hormonal mechanism.

Why this might work

When resistant maltodextrin is eaten with a meal, it absorbs water and swells in the stomach, making the stomach stretch more than usual. This stretch activates sensors in the stomach wall that send signals through nerves to the brain, telling it the person is full. These signals last for hours, so the person feels less hungry even though blood sugar and hunger hormones stay the same.

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What the research says

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  1. Study: Differential Modulation of Postprandial Glycemic, Incretin, and Satiety Responses by Low-Digestible Carbohydrates in Humans: An Exploratory Investigation

    When people with slightly high blood sugar ate rice with 10 grams of resistant maltodextrin, they felt fuller for longer — but their blood sugar, insulin, and fullness hormones didn’t change. This suggests the fiber just made their stomach feel fuller, not that it changed their body chemistry.

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