Table 2.

Overview of the daily diets for each of the four study conditions, including the type of texture manipulation

Meal	Unprocessed		(Ultra-)processed		Type of texture manipulation
	Hard	Soft	Hard	Soft
Breakfast	Fresh mixed fruit	Homemade smoothie	Canned mixed fruit	Store bought smoothie	Solid/liquid
Morning snack	Apple pieces	Apple sauce -no additives	Apple pieces	Store bought Apple juice	Solid/semi-solid/liquid
Lunch	Fresh Tagliatelle pasta with homemade tomato sauce, hard-steamed vegetables and large pieces of chicken fillet	Fresh tagliatelle pasta with homemade tomato sauce, soft-steamed vegetables and homemade pulled chicken	Store bought, pork meat tortellini with pre-canned tomato sauce, hard-cooked vegetables and grated cheese	Ready-to-eat macaroni Bolognese with grated cheese	Hardness and piece size
Afternoon snack	Dried mango	Raisins	Muesli bar pieces	Fruit bar pieces	Elasticity and hardness
Dinner	Potato parts with large pieces of pork fillet and whole hard-steamed green beans	Homemade mashed potato with eggs small pieces of soft-steamed green beans	Pre-flavoured and baked potato parts with large pieces of chicken schnitzel and whole, hard-steamed green beans	Mashed potato with chicken meatballs and small pieces of soft-steamed green beans	Hardness piece size
Dessert	Dried figs and almonds	Curd with added honey and crushed pecan nuts	Mass produced fig bread	Walnut and honey flavoured yoghurt	Solid versus semi-solid