ArticleJournal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association2019
Food craving in daily life: comparison of overweight and normal-weight participants with ecological momentary assessment.
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- Identifying Dietary Triggers Among Individuals with Overweight and Obesity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Beyond general food craving: sex differences in food-specific craving identified using item response theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Trait food craving predicts functional connectivity between dopaminergic midbrain and the fusiform food area during eating imagery.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Adaptation of Food Craving Inventory to Turkish culture: a validity and reliability study.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Optimizing a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention to Improve Dietary Adherence in Behavioral Obesity Treatment: Protocol for a Microrandomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- The food craving inventory in an Iranian population: post-hoc validation and individual differences.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Sweet/Fat Preference Taste in Subjects Who are Lean, Obese and Very Obese.Pharmaceutical research · 2020Article
- Food craving in daily life: comparison of overweight and normal-weight participants with ecological momentary assessment.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe present study examined food cravings in daily life by comparing overweight and normal-weight participants right before eating events and at non-eating moments. It was hypothesised that overweight participants would have (i) more frequent, (ii) stronger and (iii) a greater variety of high-caloric palatable food cravings, and also would (iv) consume more high-caloric palatable foods, than normal-weight participants.
methodsEcological momentary assessment (EMA) was used to assess food craving strength and frequency, variety of specific food cravings, and food intake. Fifty-seven overweight and 43 normal-weight adult participants were assessed at eating events and at an average of eight random non-eating moments per day for 2 weeks. Foods were categorised as: high-caloric high palatable foods (HCHP), fruits and salads, staple food dishes and sandwiches, and soups and yoghurts.
resultsOverweight participants reported more frequent HCHP food cravings specifically at non-eating moments than did normal-weight participants. Normal-weight participants reported more food cravings for staple foods, specifically at eating events. Moreover, overweight participants craved a greater variety of HCHP foods than normal-weight participants at both eating events and random non-eating moments. No other significant between-group differences were found.
conclusionsThe results highlight the importance for obesity interventions (i) to specifically target high-caloric palatable food cravings that are experienced during the day and are not tied to eating moments and (ii) to aim for a reduction in the variety of high-caloric palatable food cravings. It might be fruitful to deliver treatment aimed at reducing cravings via mobile devices because this allows for easy individual tailoring and timing of interventions.
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