An oatmeal breakfast enhances feelings of fullness and helps curb hunger to a significantly greater extent than a leading oat-based ready-to-eat cereal.
April 22/Boston/Press Release -- New research presented at Experimental Biology 2013 in Boston reveals that an oatmeal breakfast enhances feelings of fullness and helps curb hunger to a significantly greater extent than a leading oat-based ready-to-eat cereal (RTEC).
Candida Rebello, RD, MS, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La., presented research on the impact of eating oatmeal versus a RTEC of equal calories. The statistically significant results show that oatmeal enhances satiety, feelings of fullness and reduces the desire to eat more than RTEC. Rebello also reported laboratory results suggesting that the processing of RTEC may cause changes in oat fiber that potentially reduces its ability to enhance satiety.