TABLE 1.

Subjective comments of participants after preload consumption¹

Preloads	Participant comments
L-L	“This didn't fill me up at all.”
	“It went right through me, I am so hungry.”
	“It seems less thick than a regular drink.”
	“Not filling!”
L-S	“It feels like I swallowed a rock.”
	“I could barely swallow the liquid it was so thick.”
	“When I push on my stomach, it feels harder.”
	“It is very surprising—I feel like I ate a large meal.”
	“I am so full I can barely finish the glass.”
	“My stomach normally doesn't react to a lot, but I can definitely feel the liquid turning to solid.”
	“This is definitely thicker than regular drinks.”
	“It sits like a solid in your stomach.”
	“It came out like a solid, too.” (ie, feces appeared to be affected)
S-L	“I felt full at first, but it immediately went away when the cubes turned to liquid in my stomach.”
	“It hardly feels like I ate anything.”
	“It feels like I drank a bunch of liquid.”
	“I knew it was a solid, but my body was tricked—it felt like a liquid.”
	“I was afraid I would be really full, but the feeling quickly disappeared.”
S-S	“I can't remember ever being so full.”
	“My stomach feels so heavy.”
	“I feel like I just ate an entire buffet.”
	“These cubes are harder to chew than the ‘S-L’ cubes.”
	“It is sitting very heavy in my stomach.”
	“These cubes are extremely dense.”
	“I felt the same sensation when the liquid turned to solid in my stomach—it feels very hard.”

¹The recorded comments were made freely by participants and were not solicited by the researchers. L-L, oral liquid/perceived gastric liquid; L-S, oral liquid/perceived gastric solid; S-L, oral solid/perceived gastric liquid; S-S, oral solid/perceived gastric solid.