Yacon and Increased Satiety Sensation

• Acute postprandial effect of yacon syrup ingestion on appetite: A double blind randomized crossover clinical trial.

  • 2020-09-03
  • RCT
  • Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) 137
  • • Lia Silveira Adriano
    • Ana Paula Dionísio
    • Fernando Antônio Pinto de Abreu
    • Nedio Jair Wurlitzer
    • Bárbara Rebeca Cordeiro de Melo
    • Antônio Augusto Ferreira Carioca
    • Helena Alves de Carvalho Sampaio

  • PubMed: 33233227
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109648

  6 Insights on

  • Increased Satiety Sensation

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The effect of yacon syrup on postprandial subjective sensations of hunger, satiety, fullness, and desire to eat was not evident in the total group of women evaluated and even after BMI stratification.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  40 g (containing 14 g FOS)