People who are trying hard to lose weight consider bread, especially whitebread, as one of their enemy foods. This is because bread is known to contain lots of carbohydrate that makes losing weight harder.

Actually, carbohydrate per se, is not the culprit but simple carbohydrates. If you’d like to lose weight, aim for complex carbohydrates. But there’s also something interesting about food rich in protein making one lose weight more than food rich in carbohydrates.

Working with researchers from University of WA, a Fremantle bakery called Bodi’s Bakehouse made a bread that’s dubbed as Slimmer’s Choice. This weight loss bread is rich in protein but not in carbohydrate, making people who eat it feel full longer compared with ordinary breads.

Made from lupins, a legume, the bread has been found by a University of WA study to help people consume up to 30 per cent less energy during a meal.

One study participant recorded weight loss of about 4kg over four weeks.

The researchers studied 16 people with a body mass index of more than 25 who were given lupin and regular white bread sandwiches for breakfast and lunch over four weeks.

Leader of the study Jonathan Hodgson said that when people consumed the lupin bread, they ate between 25 and 30 per cent less energy during the meal. This was after they had been asked to eat until they were comfortably full.

Full report here.

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Tags: carbohydrate, protein, Lupin bread