Rosi A, et al. - Given that regular breakfast consumption is associated with better health status and healthier food intake throughout the day, researchers assessed how nutritional and cognitive-perceived characteristics of breakfast could influence the metabolic and behavioral variables associated with food intake in a randomized, crossover, controlled trial, with four experimental conditions consisting of three iso-energetic breakfasts and one energy-free control meal. Participants were 15 healthy normal-weight men (mean±standard deviation; age, 24±2 years; body mass index 23.4±1.6 kg/m²). Researchers found that postprandial satiety was similar for the three energy-containing breakfasts but higher when compared with the energy-free control, and concluded that minor differences in nutritional and perceived characteristics of breakfast were of limited importance in relation to medium-term energy intake in healthy men.