date:Feb 25, 2013
t a standard 50 g amount of each food item, seven of which were tested over five consecutive days. Video recordings of the volunteers eating the food were then used to calculate the eating rate (g/min), chew rate (chews/min), average bite size (g/bite), average chews/bite and overall oral duration time (seconds) for each of the 35 test foods.
Data revealed surprising differences in the way foods were consumed. For example, the average number of bites for each food varied from five bites (raw to