Acknowledgements
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The authors would like to thank Sara Brown (David Greenfield Human Physiology Unit, University of Nottingham) and Lesley Martin (Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham) for their support in setting up the screening and study visits. The authors are grateful to Andrew Cooper, Jan Alappadan Paul, Mehri Kaviani and Chris Bradley (Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham) for the operation of the MRI scanner. The authors would like to thank Dr Elizabeth Simpson (School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham) for sharing her experience of using the foot hotbox in the MRI. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the participants who contributed to the study.This work was supported by KANEKA CORPORATION, Japan, financially and by support in kind by providing free of charge the two NGTF. M. Y. and H. I., who are employees of KANEKA CORPORATION, contributed to the study design, interpretation of the findings and preparation of the manuscript. M. Y. and H. I. also contributed the pre-work, demonstrated in Supplementary Item A. I. A. was supported by a PhD scholarship received from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Nigeria through Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria (AIA).H. I. and M. Y. are KANEKA CORPORATION Employees. IM was Professor of Metabolic Physiology at the University of Nottingham when this project was planned and when the research commenced. From August 2020 to 2022, he was Scientific Director of the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences and an employee of Société des Produits Nestlé SA, Switzerland, but had no direct involvement with the Clinical Nutrition aspects of Nestle.The study research question was established by G. P. A., M. C., H. I., I. A. M., L. M., M. A. T and M. Y.; the study was designed by A. I. A., M. C., S. M. C., C. L. H., I. A. M., L. M., A. N, M. A. T.; and with M. Y. and I. H. who also shared pre-work establishing the gelling properties of different commercial feeds; the study was undertaken by A. I. A., S. M. C., L. M., A. N. and M. A. T.; data analysis was undertaken by A. I. A., S. M. C., C. L. H., M. H. A., L. M. and M. A. T.; findings were interpreted by A. I. A., G. P. A., M. C., SC, H. I., I. A. M., L. M., M. A. T. and M. Y.; the first draft was prepared by A. I. A., A. N., S. M. C. and M. A. T.; all authors contributed to critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and approved the final version.A. I. A., G. P. A., M. H. A., S. M. C., C. L. H., A. N.: None.