Clark SL, et al. – Via assessing a sample of healthy adults, researchers determined how satiety, test-meal food intake, and 24-hour energy intake is altered by replacing wheat and rice with two lentil varieties within muffins and chilies. In two randomized crossover studies, healthy adults were asked to consume muffins or chilies in which wheat or rice was replaced with green (61.8 g) or red (54 g) lentils (muffin study: n=24, mean ± SE age: 25.4 ± 0.9 years, body mass index, kg/m²: 23.2 ± 0.5; chili study: n=24, age: 25.7 ± 1.0 years, body mass index, kg/m²: 23.2 ± 0.5). An increase in satiety—but no decrease in food intake—was observed when rice was replaced with green, but not red lentils within chili. The investigators also found that satiety did not increase and food intake was not decreased by replacing wheat with lentils within muffins.