What has the highest
#satiety per calorie out of these four proteins: Shrimp, chicken breast, ribeye or bacon? 🍤🥩🐔🥓
When we asked the other day, most people correctly identified the LOWEST score (bacon) but missed on the highest one.
First, these foods all have a balanced or high
@JoinHava satiety score; none are low. They can all be good choices.
Most people chose ribeye as the most satiating food when asked, which is understandable but incorrect.
One ribeye likely does give more satiety than a chicken breast or a few shrimp... but the ribeye also has a lot of calories.
Percentage-wise, it's lower in protein and has a higher energy density, compared to the chicken or the shrimp.
In other words, you'd have to eat a mountain of shrimp to get the same calories as in one ribeye steak. You'd likely stop eating before that.
What does this mean? Well, if you enjoy ribeye feel free to keep doing that, it's a fine meal, and it is also scoring relatively high. Higher than most foods.
However, if you want to get really lean or rapidly reverse type 2 diabetes, ribeye may not be the most effective choice. Bacon even less so.
According to our
@JoinHava satiety algorithm, the high score is an almost even race between shrimp and chicken breast, but the shrimp takes the top spot thanks to an extremely high protein percentage (80%!) and a very low energy density.
Go shrimp. 🍤👑
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