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The avocado is widely hailed as a super food. With its creamy green flesh, it adorns dishes of all varieties and features in breakfasts,
lunches, and dinners.
The fruit contains a rare combination of healthful fats and fiber and is associated with a host of health benefits.
A new study in the journal Nutrients now adds more evidence to consider, by showing that overweight or obese volunteers who had eaten avocado as part of a meal felt less hungry after six hours, compared with those who had eaten a low-fat, high-carbohydrate meal.
But there is a rub. This study received funding from the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) and is not the first of its kind with such backing.
But should this deter us from swapping carbohydrate for avocado?
Meals with avocados reduced hunger
Britt Burton-Freeman, Ph.D., an associate professor of food science and nutrition and director of the Center for Nutrition Research at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago, is the senior study author.
The team set out to test the effects of replacing carbohydrate with avocado in a meal on satiety, which is the feeling of fullness and reduction in appetite that we experience when we eat.
The study included 31 participants who were overweight or obese. The volunteers ate a breakfast meal consisting of a bagel sandwich, honeydew melon, oatmeal, and a lemonade-flavored drink on three separate occasions.
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