Sensa, better known to some as “The Sprinkle Diet”.

The Sensa weight loss diet is not necessarily a “diet”, but it is known as “The Sprinkle Diet”.

This is a diet where you don’t count calories, you have no cravings and you are not deprived of food. Sensa is food flakes made from maltodextrin, tricalcium phosphate, carmine, soy, and milk. You sprinkle them on everything you eat and sniff them and they enhance the scent and add mild salty or sweet flavoring. The flavors are cheddar cheese, onion, horseradish, ranch dressing, taco and Parmesan cheese. Sweetflavors are cocoa, banana strawberry, spearmint, malt and raspberry.

The “Sprinkle Diet” was founded by Alan Hirsch, MD. Hirsch is the director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
The sprinkles are sugar free, sodium free and gluten free.

Sensa works with your sense of smell which fools your brain and stomach into believing that you are full. “The flavors may make people focus on the sensory characteristics of food — smell and taste — and can actually cause a change in eating habits and behavior,” Hirsch tells sources.

Diet and fitness expert, Pamela Peeke, MD says, “This is not a magic bullet. There is no magic sprinkle. This isn’t even a diet. It oversimplifies the complex physiology and psychology associated with appetite.” However, Hirsch did a “clinical” study, but it was never validated or published in a medical journal. Peeke went on to say that there is nothing unique in the tastants.

The lack of diet and fitness guidelines raises a red flag with experts.

Experts recommend that you stick with a traditional diet plan that involves less food and more exercise until more evidence is available for this product. You can burn 250 additional calories per day while cutting 250 calories per day from your diet. This will make you loose around 50 pounds per year.