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Self Selection of Diet

VIII. Appetite for Fats1

Two Figures

E. M. Scott and Ethel L. Verney

Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hydrogenated vegetable oil was more generally liked by young rats than butterfat or corn or cottonseed oils. When an unpopular fat was given as a choice, the rats selected much more casein and sucrose than when the choice was hydrogenated fat. It was concluded that choice of foods when components of a diet were offered was not related to the nutritional nature of the choices (i.e., whether a given choice was fat, carbohydrate, or protein), but was more probably dependent on the animals' subjective response to each particular choice.

1 Contribution no. 667 from the Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh. Aided by grants of the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and of the Buhl Foundation.

Manuscript received 27 February 1948.




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