1. Results from Unrestricted Intake Experiments
N= 20 Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats
Food deprivation 24 hours prior to each of the 4 trials conducted at one week intervals during the 1st hour of Lights On.
Provided Froot Loops one at a time until rat terminates meal (defined as not consuming for 10 minutes)
Measurements
Time to consume each Froot Loop (sec) (data not shown)
Meal duration in seconds
Number of Froot Loops consumed
Grams of Froot Loops consumed
Rate of Froot Loop consumption (sec/FL)

2. ● = different from Trial 4

5. ● = different from Trial 4

6. ● = different from Trial 4

7. ● = different from Trial 4

10. Conclusion: The slower a rat eats, the less it consumes or said in another way “The faster a rat eats, the more it consumes.”
Caution: Three rats consistently tend to eat dramatically slower than the other eighteen.