Drinking soup rich in umami savoury taste before meal may help in promoting healthy eating behaviours and food choices.<\/p>\n
Scientists have found that soup causes changes in the brain that promote healthy eating behaviours and food choices, especially in those at risk of obesity.<\/p>\n
Umami is a Japanese word to express a delicious, savoury meal, and it represents one of the five basic tastes, together with sweet, salty, bitter and sour.<\/p>\n
A key component of umami taste is glutamate, a naturally occurring non-essential amino acid that can be found in nearly all foods, and especially in foods high in protein such as dairy products, fish, and meat.<\/p>\n
“Many cultures around the world advocate drinking a broth before a meal. Our study suggests the possibility that people at high risk of obesity could benefit from an umami-rich broth before a meal to facilitate healthy eating and healthy food choice,” said senior author Miguel Alonso-Alonso, from Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center .<\/p>\n
People drinking the umami-rich broth before meal demonstrated improved self-regulation of eating, more focused gazes during the meal, as well as more engagement of a brain area that is linked to successful self-regulation during food choice.<\/p>\n
After consuming the umami-rich broth, those at higher risk of obesity consumed less saturated fat during the meal, the findings showed.<\/p>\n
The results, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, may open new ways to facilitate healthy eating and reduce food intake in the general population.<\/p>\n
“However, here we only evaluated immediate effects and in a laboratory context. Future research should address whether these observed changes can accumulate and affect food intake over time and\/or whether they can be leveraged to help people lose weight more successfully,” Alonso-Alonso said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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