1Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Toyo University, 1-1-1 Izumino, Itakura-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma, Japan
2Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Life Science, Kobe Women¡¯s University, 2-1 Higashisuma-Aoyama, Suma, Kobe, Japan
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research.
2023,
Vol. 11 No. 5, 360-364
DOI: 10.12691/jfnr-11-5-4
Copyright © 2023 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Tomoko Osera, Yoshiki Katayama, Yuki Mitsui, Yukiko Segawa, Saki Maruyama, Nobutaka Kurihara. What Enhances Food Intake? ¨C Silent Eating or Conversing while Eating with Others.
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research. 2023; 11(5):360-364. doi: 10.12691/jfnr-11-5-4.
Correspondence to: Nobutaka Kurihara, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Life Science, Kobe Women¡¯s University, 2-1 Higashisuma-Aoyama, Suma, Kobe, Japan. Email:
kurihara@suma.kobe-wu.ac.jpAbstract
The social facilitation of public dining is important for healthy development. Unfortunately, this practice was, for many, temporarily interrupted by COVID-19. In this crossover study, we posit that two conditions¡ªsilent eating versus conversing while eating with cafeteria situation affects consumption and taste. In all, 11 students at a university in Japan served 10 g of popcorn each during a 90-s interval under these two conditions. The main outcome measures were consumption, the scores for which were significantly higher when eating with conversation. The results indicated that ambience and friendship affected eating rates are important for food consumption. This paper¡¯s result suggested the importance of eating with others. We need to conduct additional experiments in the future. However, this paper is necessary for future developments.
Keywords