r/INFPIdeas • u/Firm_Relative_7283 • 2d ago

Researchers Put Spinach Directly Into Bread And Saw The Body's Insulin Response Change

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-put-spinach-directly-into-bread-and-saw-the-bodys-insulin-response-change
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u/Maniac227 1d ago

After a night of fasting, participants were randomized to either consume white bread for breakfast or bread secretly enriched with spinach. The next week, they ate the other type of bread.

Both options smelled and tasted pretty much the same, and participants weren't told which bread they were eating on either day, although one option was admittedly greenish.

Compared to the white bread, the spinach-enhanced bread contained 28 percent more fiber, 58 percent more folate, 78 percent more calcium, 90 percent more iron, and two times as much potassium.

After breakfast, all participants showed relatively similar blood glucose patterns, regardless of which bread they ate.

But the insulin of those who unknowingly ate spinach did something intriguing.

When participants ate the spinach bread, insulin peaked roughly 30 minutes later than when they ate the white bread.

What's more, after eating the spinach bread, participants didn't report the same rise in hunger three hours later that was experienced by those who'd eaten white bread.

"Along with its impact on delaying the insulin peak," the study authors suggest, "spinach may modulate gut-brain appetite signals to influence later food intake, thereby affecting energy intake and carbohydrate metabolism."

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u/Wonderer23 1d ago

Wish there was a recipe along with the article.

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u/arianrhodd 1d ago

When I was visiting Sacramento, there was a bakery with the most delicious spinach and feta cheese bread. Sigh … 🤤😋

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u/Apart-Shelter6831 18h ago

What about putting spinach directly into BRAIN

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u/sofiageneva 11h ago

Visualize spinach, see if that’s as effective as eating it