Table 4.
Total energy intake, energy from hyper-palatable foods and consumption of carbohydrates and lipids from HPF during subjective binge eating episodes across binge eating spectrum disorders.
| SBE | BED (n = 9) | BN (n = 10) | RBE (n = 27) | BED vs. BN BED vs. RBE BN vs. RBE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SE) |
95%CI | Mean (SE) |
95%CI | Mean (SE) |
95%CI | * t | p | |
| Total kcal/SBE | 710 (127.3) |
399–1022 | 954 (217.5) |
422–1487 | 639 (57.9) |
497–780 | −1.1 0.3 1.4 |
0.30 0.78 0.20 |
| HPF kcal/SBE | 466 (34.4) |
382–550 | 461 (89.9) |
241–681 | 439 (54.9) |
305–574 | 0.4 0.7 0.1 |
0.71 0.51 0.93 |
| % of kcal from HPF/SBE | 76 | 54–98 | 50 | 29–72 | 72 | 55–90 | 2.0 0.4 −1.7 |
0.08 0.72 0.15 |
| % of kcal from HPF from carbohydrates/ SBE |
46 | 36–56 | 72 | 56–88 | 54 | 42–67 | −3.1 −1.3 1.5 |
0.03 0.23 0.20 |
| % of kcal from HPF from lipids/SBE |
36 | 30–43 | 20 | 7–32 | 29 | 21–37 | 2.9 2.1 −1.2 |
0.03 0.08 0.27 |
Notes: * t-test; SBE: subjective binge eating episodes; BED: binge eating disorder; BN: bulimia nervosa; RBE: recurrent binge eating; SE: standard error; CI: confidence interval; HPF: hyper-palatable foods.