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The interventions were taken every day before breakfast for 12 weeks. The Lund-based scientists recruited 38 overweight women aged between 40 and 65 and randomly assigned them to either the spinach extract group (5 grams per day) or placebo. Prof Erlanson-Albertsson is a scientific advisor for Greenleaf Medical AB. Greenleaf Medical is a Swedish company with a US subsidiary. The study used the commercially available Appethyl spinach extract, which is available globally from Greenleaf Medical. This means that we are able to stick to the diet we are meant for without snacks and unnecessary foods like sweets, crisps and such.”​ The thylakoids extend the digestion, producing a feeling of satiety and reducing hedonic hunger. There is nothing wrong with our digestive system, but it doesn’t work well with the modern ‘pre-chewed’ food. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden proposed that the green leaf membranes slow down the digestion process, thereby giving the intestinal hormones time to be released and communicate to the brain that we are satisfied.Ĭharlotte Erlanson-Albertsson, Professor of Medicine and Physiological Chemistry at Lund University and corresponding author on the study, said: “It is about making use of the time it takes to digest our food.