Fullness Factor

A comment left on a previous entry got me to researching, and my research turned up a cool thing.

I have a link to NutritionData already in my sidebar, but I never explored the Fullness Factor<tm> tab before finding a link to it while looking up the Satiety Factor information.

The NutritionData peeps do a good job of explaining it, so I won't repeat all that here. The Satiety study had given boiled potatoes a very high satiation value, however, and my long-necked friend had commented that that was interesting.

I'm thinking "Boiled 'taters, Ew." and, sure 'nuf, the ND folk think that might be a bit off, too.

Note, however, that the methodology of this particular study may have contributed to an artificially high satiety value for potatoes. Per the study's design, the participants were separately fed 220-Calorie servings of each food. A 220-Calorie serving of plain potatoes is larger and much less palatable than the other foods studied. The size of this serving may have influenced a repulsion to this test food that goes beyond the normal satiating response.

I sincerely nope there are more, scientifically based studies regarding satiety and foods, using the usual standards of controls and large scale groups. The more we understand, the better we'll be, is what I say.