New technology seeks to end hunger

• April 27, 2024

Nestlé researchers will try to create food based on the Stomach instinct . Not the rational instinct, but the sophisticated process that takes place in the digestive tract , which allows us to know if we have hungry, publishes the American newspaper Wall Street Journal.

Our enteric nervous system is responsible for controlling the digestive system , and has about 500 million nerve cells that work as a team and communicate, as do the neurons of our brain. It helps control muscle contractions in the digestive system, as well as the secretions of glands and cells, and is responsible for us feeling hunger or satiety .

Nestlé, one of the largest food companies in the world, hopes to develop new types of food that essentially seek to deceive the system. For example, cooking French fries with oil that is slowly digestible compared to ordinary oil could make you feel satisfied for more time , scientists speculate.

To study the above, Nestle and other food companies have created a model of the "human stomach brain" at a cost of one million dollars and the size of a refrigerator.The entire structure is controlled by a computer and calibrated to the same temperature that the human body contains valves and compartments that mimic the true.

The system works in a state of continuous hunger for default. With the aim of finding a balance between hunger and satiety, the "brain of the stomach" and the brain they communicate through neuronal signals . When food enters the stomach, it expands and sends a signal to the brain.

Scientists from the organization found that the simulation machine takes 8 times longer to digest the olive oil monoglyceride, compared to regular olive oil. This could delay the signal of satiety that is sent to the brain from the intestine.

The Wall Street Journal publishes in its article that Nestlé has indicated that with the help of its scientific advances new food products They could go to the market in 5 years.

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