2.4. Interventions and Test Meals
Volunteers attended the laboratory daily to consume the test preparations (breakfast cereal with milk or dairy product, or a drink) at breakfast and guided to follow a 500 kcal/day caloric restriction diet. On the weekends, the volunteers consumed the meals at home. The volunteers were instructed to consume the entire amount of test food provided. Thus, meals were offered to both groups in the form of breakfast cereal (extruded sorghum × wheat) added with whole milk or light whole yogurt, or a drink (extruded flours were mixed with skimmed milk powder, powdered juice, and sweetener) (