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. 2015 Apr 29;145(6):1170–1177. doi: 10.3945/jn.114.204339

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

The upper part of the panel shows typical balanced turbo field echo (water) images taken across the stomach of the same healthy young adult at time t = 2 h after consumption of each of the 3 test meals containing a 20% sunflower oil in water emulsion on the 3 separate study days: Coarse, Coarse+LBG, and Fine+LBG. The lower part of the panel shows the corresponding fat-only images. These show that the LBG-stabilized emulsions did not phase separate in the stomach, whereas the Coarse meal shows a clear creamed fat layer on top of the stomach contents. Coarse, 20% oil and water emulsion with 6-μm mean droplet size; Coarse+LBG, 20% oil and water emulsion with 6-μm mean droplet size and 0.5% locust bean gum; Fine+LBG, 20% oil and water emulsion with 0.4-μm mean droplet size and 0.5% locust bean gum; LBG, locust bean gum.