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[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Why is it when we have Chineese for lunch I'm starving again in about an hour? And not like a little hungry like eat a couch hungry.

Originally Posted by Snowflake

MSG? No that's a headache?

No idea, I guess this is not an urban legend? Wonder if we can look this kind of information up?

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

mostly veggies in the chinese food? I think a lot of the time the cooked veggies start to digest and reduce down a little faster than a more meat and carb based foods, leaving the stomach empty earlier in the cycle.

yeah, Ive thought about this at length. /shrug
guess I could look it up..but nah. this is more fun

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

It's common enough that comedians make jokes about it.

We were talking about this on Saturday. Chicken is chicken. So why is it, when I eat Chinese food with chicken and veggies I am hungry an hour later, but when I eat grilled chicken with veggies I'm not? Same amount of chicken too.

[lizziebith]

We always theorized it was the bite-sized morselization of the chicken and veggies in Chinese that led to faster digestion. Of course there's always the chewing factor, too...do you chew morsels more thoroughly that sliced-up bits?