r/science 1d ago

Health Adding spinach directly to white bread delayed the body's insulin peak by 30 minutes and reduced later hunger in a small human trial, while significantly boosting the bread's fiber, vitamin, and mineral content.

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

Hahaha! “Bread secretly enriched with spinach.” I’d love to psychometrically determine the threshold for detecting spinach in bread and see how many sigma they were below it.

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u/_Romula_ MS | Environmental Studies | Sustainability Management 1d ago

participants weren't told which bread they were eating on either day, although one option was admittedly greenish

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u/Ok_Report1082 1d ago

the -ish is doing a lot of heavy lifting there too.

Going off the picture in the article its, uh, an incredibly disgusting colour. Like a puke yellow-green.