Consumers are looking for healthier food product attributes, even in indulgent snacks, cookies and crackers. That rising demand has formulators turning to more functional starches.
Increased market demands for functional food products pose a dilemma for R&D experts: How to make products more nutritious but not sacrifice taste or quality, especially when it comes to the typically indulgent snack foods?
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 23, 2013
Results showed that when subjects ate oatmeal, they reported increases in overall fullness, as well as stomach fullness, and reductions in hunger and the desire to eat.