Alternative Protein Short Chronic Study

Participants were instructed to consume only the meals that were provided to them during the study days. The breakfast, lunch and dinner meals of the diets were designed to contain 30% fat, 15% protein, and 55% carbohydrate, and seven different menus (1500, 1750, 2000, 2250, 2500, 2750 and 3000 Kcal) to deliver the closest energy requirements of the volunteers. For the intervention diets, all the meat was replaced with fava bean food products, serving the same amount of buckwheat and fava bean food products for all the volunteers independently of their energy requirements. During the intervention diets, all the drinks, such as coffee, juice and tea, were restricted and provided by the Human Nutrition Unit at the Rowett Institute; the volunteers were allowed to drink only water ad libitum. Alcoholic drinks were not allowed to be consumed during the intervention diet weeks.

Participants were instructed to consume only the meals that were provided to them during the study days. The breakfast, lunch and dinner meals of the diets were designed to contain 30% fat, 15% protein, and 55% carbohydrate, and seven different menus (1500, 1750, 2000, 2250, 2500, 2750 and 3000 Kcal) to deliver the closest energy requirements of the volunteers. For the intervention diets, all the meat was replaced with buckwheat food products, serving the same amount of buckwheat and fava bean food products for all the volunteers independently of their energy requirements. During the intervention diets, all the drinks, such as coffee, juice and tea, were restricted and provided by the Human Nutrition Unit at the Rowett Institute; the volunteers were allowed to drink only water ad libitum. Alcoholic drinks were not allowed to be consumed during the intervention diet weeks.