Minimize Flavor Variety
I'm not talking about limiting flavor. Flavor is good. But variety? Does less variety mean more satiety?
Because I love frozen yogurt so much, I couldn't resist reading when I stumbled upon Glamour's The Dos and Don'ts of Frozen Yogurt. In it, Carolyn Brown (M.S., R.D.), Rachel Beller (M.S., R.D.) and other nutrition experts give great advice involving cup size, toppings, flavors, and more, but the one that most caught my attention was slide 7: Don't Mix Flavors.
"Sure, swirling your two favorite flavors sounds like a great idea, but there's a good reason to resist. 'We have a limit to where our taste buds start fatiguing on a certain flavor,' Blatner says. 'If you pick only one topping and flavor, you actually feel more satisfied than if you were picking multiple things.'"
Hm. Interesting. I thought about this for a while. I've done both ends of the spectrum; I've swirled 4 flavors into my single cup at 16 Handles, and other …
Because I love frozen yogurt so much, I couldn't resist reading when I stumbled upon Glamour's The Dos and Don'ts of Frozen Yogurt. In it, Carolyn Brown (M.S., R.D.), Rachel Beller (M.S., R.D.) and other nutrition experts give great advice involving cup size, toppings, flavors, and more, but the one that most caught my attention was slide 7: Don't Mix Flavors.
"Sure, swirling your two favorite flavors sounds like a great idea, but there's a good reason to resist. 'We have a limit to where our taste buds start fatiguing on a certain flavor,' Blatner says. 'If you pick only one topping and flavor, you actually feel more satisfied than if you were picking multiple things.'"
Hm. Interesting. I thought about this for a while. I've done both ends of the spectrum; I've swirled 4 flavors into my single cup at 16 Handles, and other …