Figure 3.

Food addiction-like score highly correlates with escalated intake, motivation for food, and compulsive-like eating. (a–c) Excessive intake, motivation for food, and compulsive-like eating as a function of the number of positive food addiction-like criteria met. The intensity of the three food addiction-like behaviors was proportional to the number of positive criteria met by the subjects. (d–f) The food addiction-like score highly correlated with excessive intake, motivation for food, and compulsive-like eating. n=29. Data show mean±SEM. ^$p⩽0.05, ^$$p⩽0.01, ^$$$p⩽0.001 vs zero criteria group.