- People who eat avocado with lunch feel 40% less desire to snack
- They also feel more satisfied for the three hours after their lunch
- Eating an avocado with lunch increases calorie and carbohydrate intake at that meal but does not increase blood sugar levels
Eating half an avocado at lunchtime can boost feelings of fullness and reduce the temptation to snack between meals, experts claim.
Their study compared the effects of incorporating a fresh avocado into a lunch with the effects of eating a standard lunch.
They aimed to determine how avocado consumption would influence satiety, blood sugar, insulin response and snacking.
The researchers studied 26 healthy but overweight adults.
They found that participants who added half a fresh avocado to their lunch reported 40 per cent decreased desire to eat in the following three hours as well as a 28 per cent reduced desire to eat over the subsequent five hours. Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536448/Want-stop-snacking-Eat-half-AVOCADO-lunch-banish-hunger-pangs.html
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