A Scent that Triggers Satiety Successfully Created by Scientist

Amsterdam, Just by chewing something, a person may feel satiety. That's the latest invention is successfully developed Dutch researchers. Scientists create food with the scent that can suppress hunger.

The discovery is expected to help those who are difficult to control appetite and also obese.

Rianne Ruijschop and his colleagues have long design that can overcome food hunger and enhance satiety without adding calories to the body. And finally after several years of study, the food was finally realized.

Food that will trigger satiety due to be released during the chew-containing scent molecules that can send the current satiety and full signals to the brain.

"So, just by chewing, feeling of fullness was already arising," he said as quoted Ruijschop from HealthDay, Tuesday (22/12/2009).

In his study, found that the smell Ruijschop synthesis made in the laboratory was able to persuade a person's brain to stop eating.

Although proven to reduce hunger in some panelists, but hoping to do Ruijschop clinical studies on a larger scale.

Another expectation is that the scent triggers satiety that can be applied successfully made the producers of the food industry in order to suppress the growing obesity rate increasing in number day.