Solid or Liquid Food-The Intention to Eat Different Foods under Negative Emotions

Food can relieve an individual's emotions, especially for emotional eaters. For instance, chewing alleviates negative emotions. Solid and liquid foods comprise a huge part of our daily lives, and the chewiness of solid foods is always high. Here, we explored whether people, especially emotional...

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Published in:Foods 2022-04, Vol.11 (9), p.1180
Main Authors: Wu, Chenjing, Huang, Chuangbing, Zhu, Hongyan, Yu, Yuanlin, Zhang, Caiyun, Zhang, Wei, He, Xianyou
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Carbohydrates
Eating
Eating behavior
emotional eater
Emotional regulation
Emotions
Experiments
Food
Food cans
Food preferences
Food science
liquid food
negative emotion
Questionnaires
solid food
Soybeans
the eating intention
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Summary:Food can relieve an individual's emotions, especially for emotional eaters. For instance, chewing alleviates negative emotions. Solid and liquid foods comprise a huge part of our daily lives, and the chewiness of solid foods is always high. Here, we explored whether people, especially emotional eaters, have higher eating intentions to eat highly chewy foods while experiencing negative emotions by comparing their eating intentions toward solid and liquid foods. To this end, we conducted a survey of 147 participants using a questionnaire (Experiment 1) to understand their eating intention toward five types of food (purple potato, maize, black soya bean, mango, and soybean; each food group contained a solid food and a liquid food) while experiencing negative emotions. The results showed that individuals exhibited higher eating intention toward solid food compared with liquid food while experiencing negative emotions. In Experiment 2, we selected 85 and 65 high-emotional and low-emotional eaters, respectively, and further explored their preference for solid foods. The results showed that individuals with high levels of emotional eating exhibited higher intentions toward solid food while experiencing negative emotions compared with those with low levels of emotional eating. In conclusion, this study proved that individuals' higher eating intentions toward highly chewable food were pronounced among individuals with high levels of emotional eating under negative emotion conditions.
ISSN:2304-8158
2304-8158
DOI:10.3390/foods11091180