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Originally Posted by sapiens
Satiation tends to be sensory specific. Eat a greater variety of food and your appetite should increase. (Google "sensory specific satiety". There are many studies on the topic.)
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I like this answer, and I'll expand a bit based on my experience. If you happen to eat a good portion of fruit throughout the day, unless it is the filling kind, like a banana, (which contains certain starches and minute complex-carbohydrates) your body's chemistry registers the food intake more as just a mix of water and nutritional fructose/sucrose. If you eat enough of said fruit, it will provide you with an assumed "full feeling", but within a few hours, you'll sorely feel hungry again if you have eaten nothing other than handfuls of fruit the entire day. Fruit makes a great snack throughout the day because it provides needed calories and nutritional value, fiber, vitamins, etc., but also due to the fact that once processed by the digestive system, it is seen as nothing more than water, trace amount of starches, and natural sugars.