Smart food will make you feel full faster
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Scientists plan to create chemical additives that will make a person's brain feel saturated sooner - researchers expect that "smart" food can accustom people to moderation in food.
The study is conducted by an international team of specialists who work under the Full4Health project, initiated by the European Union.
"Intelligent" food that we plan to create will be able to persuade people to moderate at the chemical level, "said Julian Mercer, a researcher at the University of Aberdeen (UK), whose words are contained in the report.
According to the scientist, the food will contain substances that usually cause the brain to generate a sense of satiety, and this feeling will not come late, as happens when eating ordinary food, but exactly at the moment when a person receives enough calories.
According to the concept that researchers intend to apply in practice, "smart" food will contain special chemicals, similar to hormones-saturation indicators, whose concentration in the blood plasma of a person increases after eating.
"It is known that nutrients from food interact with intestinal cells at the chemical level.As a result, hormones are released that serve as chemical" messengers, "reporting to the brain the message" the stomach is full, "explained Jens Holst, an employee of the University of Copenhagen (Jens Holst), who is quoted by the newspaper.
Knowing the principle of the work of this "chemical mail", scientists were able to decode "messages." For the regulation of appetite meet the molecules of entero-glucagon (it is also called glucagon-like peptide-1), the content of which in human blood plasma increases after eating five to ten times.
"There are a number of chemicals -" saturation hormones ", whose concentration in the blood plasma sharply increases after eating, we know only a few chemicals in the food that make them energize, based on them we hope to create an artificial supplement that can be add to the food, "- added Mercer.