What Enhances Food Intake? ¨C Silent Eating or Conversing while Eating with Others

Tomoko Osera^{1, 2}, Yoshiki Katayama¹, Yuki Mitsui¹, Yukiko Segawa², Saki Maruyama² and Nobutaka Kurihara^2,

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

Cite this paper:
Tomoko Osera, Yoshiki Katayama, Yuki Mitsui, Yukiko Segawa, Saki Maruyama and 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

Abstract

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:
silent eating group eating university students popcorn taste environment

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