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When food is gooey, we assume it's more fattening than harder foods.
當食物有黏黏的感覺，我們就認為它們比那些硬食含更多脂肪。
For instance, most people guess that a soft, warm cookie has more calories than a cooled-down, crunchier version.
比如，大部分人們都覺得一塊軟軟的熱曲奇餅相比冷掉的含有更多的熱量，盡管硬的更有嚼勁。
New research confirms that food's texture in your mouth—also called “mouthfeel” or “oral haptics”—influences estimates of calorie counts.
現在一項新的研究確認你口中的食物組織結構—也叫“口感”或者“口腔觸覺”—能夠影響你對食物熱量值的判斷。
And thus affects total food consumption.
而對熱量值影響著咽下食物的多少。
The study is in the Journal of Consumer Research.
這項研究已在《消費者研究》雜志上發表。
Scientists offered brownies to volunteers.
科學家們使用布朗尼蛋糕對志愿者們進行了相關測試。
Half got hard brownies.
一半人拿到的是變硬的布朗尼。
The other half got softer ones.
另一半人得到的則是軟的。
They all had to guess the number of calories in each sample.
兩組人都需要估計自己得到蛋糕的熱量。
And the group that ate the softer brownies produced estimates for their caloric value 55 percent higher than the estimates for the hard brownies by the subjects who ate them.
軟布朗尼蛋糕組比硬蛋糕那組人估計出的熱量值高55%。
The hard brownie group also ate more brownies.
而硬蛋糕組吃掉的也更多。
Probably because they thought they were getting a caloric bargain due to mouth feel.
或許他們自認為根據口感判斷這硬蛋糕熱量也并不是很高。
The researchers also offered brownies to a second group of volunteers.
研究人員又對第二批志愿者進行了同樣的蛋糕測試實驗。
Again, half received hard brownies, the other half got soft ones.
同樣是分為軟硬蛋糕兩組。
But this time participants were not asked to estimate calories.
但這次他們不需要估算熱量值。
This group gobbled up significantly more of the softer brownies.
而硬蛋糕組還是吃掉了更多的蛋糕。
Presumably because they were considered tastier.
或許他們認為冷食更是獨具風味。
So remember: the cookie might be crunchy…but the calories are still gooey.
所以需要記住的是：曲奇也有松脆口感的，但熱量問題依舊讓人擔心。
