In rats fed high-energy diets, taste, rather than fat content, is the key factor increasing food intake: a comparison of a cafeteria and a lipid-supplemented standard diet (2017)

. 2017; 5: e3697.

Published online 2017 Sep 13. doi:  10.7717/peerj.3697

PMCID: PMC5600723

Academic Editor: Jara Pérez-Jiménez

Abstract

Background

Food selection and ingestion both in humans and rodents, often is a critical factor in determining excess energy intake and its related disorders.

Methods

Two different concepts of high-fat diets were tested for their obesogenic effects in rats; in both cases, lipids constituted about 40% of their energy intake. The main difference with controls fed standard lab chow, was, precisely, the lipid content. Cafeteria diets (K) were self-selected diets devised to be desirable to the rats, mainly because of its diverse mix of tastes, particularly salty and sweet. This diet was compared with another, more classical high-fat (HF) diet, devised not to be as tasty as K, and prepared by supplementing standard chow pellets with fat. We also analysed the influence of sex on the effects of the diets.

Results

K rats grew faster because of a high lipid, sugar and protein intake, especially the males, while females showed lower weight but higher proportion of body lipid. In contrast, the weight of HF groups were not different from controls. Individual nutrient’s intake were analysed, and we found that K rats ingested large amounts of both disaccharides and salt, with scant differences of other nutrients’ proportion between the three groups. The results suggest that the key differential factor of the diet eliciting excess energy intake was the massive presence of sweet and salty tasting food.

Conclusions

The significant presence of sugar and salt appears as a powerful inducer of excess food intake, more effective than a simple (albeit large) increase in the diet’s lipid content. These effects appeared already after a relatively short treatment. The differential effects of sex agree with their different hedonic and obesogenic response to diet.

Keywords: High-fat diet, Cafeteria diet, Taste, Food intake, Rat

Introduction

Fat intake is correlated with weight gain and increased body fat content (). The use of different diets with high energy content has been widely used to determine the conditions eliciting overweight or obesity (). Obesogenic diets have been used to provoke important changes in rodents, especially those related to adipose tissue growth and, as a consequence, their increased involvement in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism (; ). A wide variety of high-energy diets have been used, in which the high lipid content is the common link, thus indicating that dietary fat is a critical factor for fat accumulation (). However, there is considerable variability in the composition of the high-fat diets (HF) used in different obesity models, since the proportion of lipids and their fatty acid composition make these diets highly heterogeneous (; ), by far, different from controls on standard chow. In addition, most HF diets contain high fructose or sucrose to enhance their obesogenic effects. They are often simplified (standardized), using a single fat and/or protein source (). The metabolic effects of these diets are variable depending on several factors, such as the age of the animals (), the duration course of the intervention (), the energy density of the diet and, especially, sex ().

The cafeteria diet is a palatable food diet model in which the range (and variety of tastes and texture) of the foods offered induce a marked hedonic-driven increase in food (and thus energy) consumption (; ). This consequent excess of energy intake results in the excessive accrual of fat, despite the homoeostatic response to lower food intake and increased thermogenesis (). Cafeteria diets have been widely used to fatten rats, but a number of Authors tend to consider that the variability attributed to self-selection by taste may be a serious handicap of this model (). Cafeteria diets are very effective creating a model of metabolic syndrome (), which can cause oxidative damage in adipose tissues (), although it also lowers the anxiety of rats () attenuating their response to stress () because of the “comfort food effect” (). On the other hand, the analysis of what food items were selected by the rats is laborious, but the results obtained are precise, and may allow us to measure the change with exposure time during different phases of development (; ). The fact remains that cafeteria diets are more obesogenic than standard high-lipid diets with equivalent energy content; despite the variability associated to selection, the actual precise and statistically invariable nutrient intake () overcomes the rat strict energy intake control. The consequence is a higher lipid deposition, metabolic change and inflammation (; ).

A critical difference between cafeteria diet and “fixed composition” HF diets, in spite of their equivalence in lipid-derived energy, is the (constant) abundance of at least two key tasty components, salt and sugar, which enhance the appetite for food, and consequently increase energy intake (; ). A number of HF diets are also additionally sugar-laden, being very effective in eliciting fat deposition ().

In this study, we used a model of HF diet matched in composition (except fat) to the standard rat chow. We used coconut oil (rich in saturated fat), that has a moderate obesogenic capacity (; ) when not supplemented with sucrose. This fat content was selected to coincide with the known “usual” percentage of fat self-selected by rats using our simplified cafeteria diet model (ca. 40%) (; ). The proportion of essential lipids in control diet and our HF diet was the same (i.e., PUFA), being the difference essentially C12–C16 (saturated and monounsaturated) fatty acids. The uniformity in the energy derived from lipids between HF diet vs. cafeteria, and the equivalence in everything else except lipid between control diet and HF diet allowed us to establish comparisons based on comparable facts, a point that, as far as we know, has not been previously attempted.

We tried to analyse the influence of tasty food (and consequent activation of the satisfaction circuits) on body energy balance and the known metabolic alterations induced by hyperlipidic diets. Our aim was to determine whether a relatively short treatment is sufficient to show the hedonic response to diet on increased food (and energy) consumption and lipid deposition, taking into account the influence of sex.

Materials & Methods

Diets

Standard diet (C) (Teklad 2014, Teklad diets, Madison WI, USA) contained 20% of digestible energy derived from protein, 13% from lipids, and 67% from carbohydrates (including 0.10% oligosaccharides). This diet essentially contained plant-derived foods.

The high-fat diet (HF) was prepared by the addition of coconut oil (Escuder, Rubí, Spain) to coarsely ground standard chow. The mix, containing 33 parts (by weight) of standard chow, 4 of coconut oil, and 16 parts of water, was thoroughly kneaded, to form a rough paste which was extruded using cut-end syringes to form 1 × 6 cm cylindrical pellets which were dried at 40 °C for 24 h. This diet contained 14.5% of digestible energy derived from protein, 37.0% from lipids, and 48.5% from carbohydrates. Aversion tests to this diet gave negative results, i.e., not different from control diet.

The simplified cafeteria diet (K) was formed by excess offering of the standard chow pellets, plain cookies spread with liver pâté, bacon, water and milk, which was supplemented with 300 g/L sucrose and 30 g/L of a mineral and vitamin supplement (Meritene, Nestlé, Esplugues, Spain) (; ). All components were kept fresh (i.e., renewed daily). From the analysis (a posteriori) of the ingested items and diet composition, we calculated that approximately 41% of ingested energy was derived from lipids, 12% from protein, and 47% of energy was derived from carbohydrates (23% oligosaccharides and 24% starches), with fair uniformity between sexes (p > 0.05).

Table 1 presents the composition of the diets used. For K rats we used the actual food consumption data. Both, crude and digestible energy content per g were higher in the HF diet, since it contains more energy per g than the C and K diets. Cafeteria diet had the lowest crude energy value because of its low content of fibre, although its digestible energy was similar to that of control chow. The diet fat content was essentially the same for K and HF diets, i.e., 3-fold higher than that of C diet.

Table 1 

Diet composition.

Animals and experimental setup

All animal handling procedures and the experimental setup were carried out in accordance with the animal handling guidelines of the European, Spanish and Catalan Authorities. The Committee on Animal Experimentation of the University of Barcelona authorized the specific procedures used (# DAAM 6911).

Ten-week-old male and female Wistar rats (Janvier, Le-Genest-Saint-Isle, France) were used (N = 39). The animals were randomly divided in three groups (n = 6–8 for each sex) and were fed ad libitum for 30 days, either standard rat chow, oil-enriched rat chow (HF) or a simplified cafeteria diet (K). All animals had free access to water. They were housed (in same-sex pairs) in solid-bottom cages with wood shards as bedding material and were kept in a controlled environment (lights on from 08:00 to 20:00, temperature 21.5–22.5 °C, and 50–60% humidity). Body weight and food consumption were recorded daily. Calculation of ingested food in cafeteria diet fed rats was done as previously described by weighing the differences in food offered and debris left (), correcting for dehydration.

On day 30, at the beginning of light cycle, the rats were anesthetized with isoflurane and then killed by exsanguination through the exposed aorta using a dry-heparinized syringe. Plasma was obtained by centrifugation and kept at −20 °C until processed. The carcass (and remaining blood and debris) were sealed in polyethylene bags, which were subsequently autoclaved at 120 °C for 2 h (); the bag contents were weighed and then minced to a smooth paste with a blender (thus obtaining a total rat homogenate).

Analytical procedures

Diet components were used for nitrogen, lipid and energy analyses. Nitrogen content was measured with a semi-automatic Kjeldahl procedure using a ProNitro S system (JP Selecta, Abrera, Spain), whereas lipid content was measured with a solvent extraction method (trichloromethane/methanol 2:1 v/v) (). These procedures were also used for the determination of carcass lipid and protein content determination. The energy content of diet components and rat carcasses were determined using a bomb calorimeter (C7000, Ika, Staufen, Germany).

Glucose in plasma was measured under controlled conditions (15 min, 30 °C) with a glucose oxidase kit #11504 (Biosystems, Barcelona, Spain) supplemented with mutarotase (490 nkat/mL of reagent) (Calzyme, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA). Mutarotase was added to speed up epimerization equilibrium of α- and β-D-glucose and thus facilitate the oxidation of β-D-glucose by glucose oxidase (; ). Other plasma parameters were measured with commercial kits; thus urea was measured with kit #11537, total cholesterol with kit #11505, creatinine with kit #11802 and triacylglycerols with kit #11528 (all from BioSystems, Barcelona, Spain). Lactate was measured with kit #1001330 (Spinreact, Sant Esteve d’en Bas, Spain) and non-esterified fatty acids with kit NEFA-HR (Wako, Neuss, Germany); 3-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate were estimated with a ketone bodies kit (Biosentec, Toulouse, France) based on 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase. Total plasma protein was measured using the Folin-phenol reagent ().

Calculations and statistical procedures

Energy intake was calculated from daily food consumption converted with the energy equivalence of the different foods and components measured with the bomb calorimeter. Energy expenditure was calculated as previously described () from the difference between the ingested energy and the increase in body energy content of the animals. Energy content increase was estimated using reference data from our previous studies using rats of the same stock, age and sex (; ). Sodium (salt) intake was calculated from food intake and the sodium content of the different food components used ().

Statistical comparisons were done with two-way ANOVA analyses (diet and time for weight changes, and sex and diet for the other data) and the post hoc Bonferroni test, using the Prism 5.0 program (GraphPad Software Inc, La Jolla CA, USA). Differences were considered significant when p value was <0.05.

Results

Figure 1 presents the changes on rat body weight after one-month of exposure to the diets. The males fed the cafeteria diet showed a significant weight gain (35%) with 1 month treatment; C and HF groups showed a similar, albeit lower, weight gain (18% and 22% respectively). The female K group showed the same pattern as males did (increase of 36%), but differences between K and C (16%) or HF (15%) groups were more marked than in males. There were no differences between C and HF groups. Nevertheless, K and C male weights were different from day 25 onwards. In females, the K group differed from HF from day 12 onwards, and the control group from day 19 onwards. Cafeteria-fed groups showed higher in vivo weight increases (males: 126 ± 3 g; females: 74 ± 7 g) than C (males: 79 ± 8 g; females: 40 ± 4 g) and HF (males: 83 ± 6 g; females: 28 ± 2 g) groups (Two-way ANOVA: Sex =p < 0.0001; Diet =p < 0.0001).

Figure 1 

Rat weight changes through 30-days of dietary treatment.

Table 2 shows the concentration of plasma metabolites. Female HF rats had lower glycaemia than C. When compared with controls, HF elicited a significantly higher lactate levels in both males and females. This HF diet also lowered cholesterol levels vs. controls irrespective of sex, but only males showed high triacylglycerols similar to those found in K. Compared with controls, the K males (but not females) showed higher free fatty acids. Urea levels were lower in K males vs. C, in contrast with females, which HF group also showed higher urea levels than C. Ketone bodies, especially 3-hydroxybutyrate levels, were affected by diet tending to show higher levels in the HF groups.

Table 2 

Plasma parameters of rats fed Standard diet (C), High-fat diet (HF) or Cafeteria diet (K).

Figure 2 shows that the percentage of body lipid was increased in both male and female cafeteria-fed rats, whereas there were no differences between the C and HF groups. The same pattern was observed when body lipid content was expressed in absolute values. Thus, body lipid was a main determinant of absolute body weight gain.

Figure 2 

Body lipid content, expressed as a percentage of body weight, and in absolute values.

Figure 3 shows the daily energy intake and estimated energy expenditure of rats fed the three experimental diets. Cafeteria fed groups showed the highest values for both daily energy intake and energy expenditure. No differences were found between C and HF, in spite of the significantly lower polysaccharide and protein intake and higher lipid ingestion of the HF groups. The energy values for the different components were balanced, and thus the total energy intake was similar for C and HF groups. Cafeteria-fed rats showed significant increases in the energy intake derived from all diet components, especially for oligosaccharides, which represented 47 ± 2% of carbohydrate energy intake for males and 53 ± 2% for females (ns). Protein, lipid and polysaccharide intake showed different values (p < 0.0001) for diet and sex. Lipid and polysaccharide intake also showed statistically significant interaction between diet and sex (p = 0.0030).

Figure 3 

Total daily nutrient intake and estimated daily energy expenditure of rats treated for 30-days with standard, high-fat or cafeteria diets.

Figure 4 shows the mean daily rat intake of sugar and salt. The differences in sugar (either lactose or sucrose) intake were considerable, since C and HF intake (only sucrose) was very low compared with that ingested by the K groups. There were no differences between sexes. The daily salt intake was also higher in cafeteria groups (higher in males than in females), and a significant interaction with sex was observed. However, when expressed in mg/g of accrued weight, female rats ingested more salt than males (39 ± 0.7 in males and 56 ± 1.2 in females; p = 0.0061).

Figure 4 

Sugar and salt intakes of rats treated for 30-days with standard, high-fat or cafeteria diets.

Discussion

The main finding of this study is that, paradoxically, 30-day exposure to two types of high fat diet, with similar fat content but markedly different taste, texture and food variety, elicited widely different effects in body weight. The gain in weight shown by the HF-diet fed animals was similar to that of controls on fed standard food pellets, and agrees with data previously described for rats of the same-age kept on a standard diet (; ), although the results were also influenced by sex. The known obesogenic effects of cafeteria diets resulted in a significant increase in body weight in a relatively short-term (). This increase was largely caused by the accumulation of fat, mainly in adipose tissue, although the increase in fat content is generalized to all tissues (). Body lipid accrual was more marked in males. The absence of significant water retention again confirms that the main cause of weight increase was a consequence of the massive lipid accretion. Both high-lipid diets contained the same proportion of fat and had a similar proportion of the other macronutrients, but HF did not elicit an increase in body weight as K did. The difference was in the higher overall amount of energy ingested by the rats in the K group.

The differences in energy intake between HF and K groups were not caused by the dissimilar fibre content, since energy intake is a function of energy density irrespective of the presence of fibre content (). High fibre content induces a drastic reduction of food intake (and body weight) in rats previously fattened with high fat diet (), probably as a consequence of lower diet energy density. The scant differences in digestible energy content between C and K, for instance, is an additional argument to assume that fibre has a minimal effect on food consumption in our model.

Tasty components of the diet have been considered as the main agents responsible of cafeteria diets overcoming the rat strict control on energy intake of cafeteria diets (; ), and also of decreasing their satiety threshold (), even with relatively short periods of exposure. These effects may help explain the hyperphagia (causing the increased energy intake) observed in the rats fed a cafeteria diet, since its effects on appetite are mediated by a short-term increase in sympathetic activity (). The effect of the high energy density of the diet, tending to decrease the overall food intake (), seems not to be effective in the K groups. Thus, the acknowledged taste components of cafeteria diet (essentially sugar and salt, i.e., sweet and salty) seem to be more effective agents acting on the control of appetite than the possible palatability of fats (and fatty acids) also present in the HF diet in amounts similar to those of cafeteria diet. This factor should be considered with the context of both the induction of food intake caused by variety (and novelty) of foods and tastes (), which in part exploits the “explorative” drive shared by rats and humans. In addition, the intake of pleasing food (such as sweets), lowers the levels of anxiety (), and is used (by humans and experimental animals alike) as “comfort food” () to escape of conflict situations, or simply for pleasure ().

The estimated values for energy expenditure and the percentage of body lipid content indicate that HF rats closely paralleled the energy balance of the control diet groups, and differ markedly from those fed K diet. The lower lipid storage in the HF rats, despite their high intake of lipids (largely consisting in saturated fatty acids and the PUFA from the standard diet from which HF diet was fabricated) suggests that in HF rats, dietary lipids were oxidized almost quantitatively. Their energy simply compensated the decreased carbohydrate utilization due to the compounded effect of its lower presence in the diet and lower food intake.

It must be taken into account that the lipids ingested were almost exclusively as acylglycerols, not free fatty acids, and thus it is unlikely that the actions on lingual fatty acid receptors () could play a significant role in the taste of this diet.

Nevertheless, the greasy texture that lipid confer to high-fat diets seems to be attractive for rats () (as in humans ()). Notwithstanding, our data showed that rats fed HF diet did not show a higher food intake than controls, which seems to just eliminate the “lipid taste” as a critical factor for hyperphagia. This conclusion may be an unexpected consequence of the HF diet formulation we used, being essentially the standard diet with added fat, and not a wholly different diet, formed by a few simple components (protein, starches, sugars and fats), as those commonly used for studies on obesity ().

Our data help clarify the situation, since they prove that fat (alone) could not be the key factor eliciting a higher food (energy) intake. The case in point being the sucrose-oil HF diets commonly used to induce obesity in rodents () even when coconut oil was used (; ). Probably, in these diets, the sugar plays a deeper effect on the obesogenic properties of diet than usually assumed (). The significant increase in 3-hydroxybutyrate levels caused by diet (indicating active fatty acid disposal), especially marked in HF rats, may act also as a satiety signal (), thus helping maintain food intake in an already relatively low setting. This was compounded mainly in females, by an efficient catabolic use of lipids.

The results obtained using this model, proved that fat alone was not the main inducer of hyperphagia. Consequently, we should determine what other dietary factors could justify the marked differences in food (and energy) intake between HF and K diets (sharing a similar proportion of dietary fat content). We postulate that this difference should be attributed to the massive intake of sugar and salt in addition to other psychological variables such as variety and comfort. These nutrients are present in relatively large proportions in all cafeteria diet formulations, and are often absent or in low proportion in most standard rodent diets, much closer to natural life conditions. Up to now, these components have received only scant attention as inducers of cafeteria diet-driven hyperphagia. Sugar (sweet taste) causes pleasurable sensations in rodents due to their oral sensory properties () that seek and stimulate the consumption of sweet foods, an intake that can be modulated with exposure () associated to the energy that the sugars provide (). The increase in sucrose (energy) ingestion may contribute to increase fat deposition, since fructose has been recognized as highly obesogenic (). Fructose (largely as sucrose) is widely present in many Western diets and can induce obesity, including prenatal obesity (). In rodents, a sucrose-rich diet can rapidly induce a pathologic condition comparable to human metabolic syndrome (). We assume that the effect of sweet taste may complement the flavour of fat texture, in K, despite fatty acids with more powerful “fat taste” not being directly available ().

Rats, like humans, prefer to drink sweet or salty solutions rather than plain water (). We can add that salt is known for its taste-enhancing properties, thus increasing the taste effects of all diet components, as well as a reward response, since preferences for both, sweet and salty tastes are mediated by endogenous opioids (). In fact, the contrast sweet/salty is one of the key factors establishing the powerful drive to eat, elicited (in humans, at least) by varied food offerings (), thus the factor “variety” could largely be correlated with the presence of these main ancestral sought-for tastes (). Sweets are the most classical “comfort food” (). In humans this slot is covered largely by sweet chocolate, but previous experiments showed that rats do not like the bitter taste of chocolate (), thus sugared milk may be a very good substitute.

Sodium is an essential element actively sought and massively consumed by animals (and evidently including humans) when found (), hence our evolutionary drive to consume salt in excess (). The maintenance of normal plasma protein levels suggest limited, if any, effects of high salt intake on the rat water balance, as previously found (). Despite these antecedents, salt intake has not been described as an essential factor eliciting hyperphagia of cafeteria diets. In the case of humans, it is almost impossible to avoid even minimal amounts of salt in present-day diets, whereas its presence in foods akin to cafeteria diets points to a relevant role in the hyperphagia. Furthermore, the effects of salt intake on the renin-angiotensin system (), and their effect on corticosteroid secretion along the corticosterone-aldosterone axis have seldom been taken into account in this context. We can speculate that the increased secretion of corticoids as a response to salt () may help elicit metabolic changes that favour the development of the conditions driving to metabolic syndrome (), and the consequent increased lipid deposition ().

There were distinctive differences between sexes in taste preferences when the rats were allowed to select foods, as is the case of cafeteria diets. Female rats ingested almost 40% more salt than males when the intake was expressed with respect to body weight increase. These data confirm that female rats show a higher preference for salt than males (). Furthermore, female rats also ingested more sugar, either in absolute or in relative values (i.e., g ingested per g of body weight increase) than males. The preferences of female rats for these nutrients, however, did not result in increased weight, in part because of their higher energy expenditure () even after correction of size by an allometric factor (). These sex differences could be traced to sex-specific factors of architecture and maturation of the reward system (). In this context, we have no data about the implication of lactose in taste, although it is well known that the intake of milk (for its taste) also implies the consumption of other milk components, such as active peptides and oestrone () responsible for higher efficiency in energy deposition during lactation. Furthermore, female rats showed lower increases in circulating triacylglycerols, and lower urea levels than males, in agreement with previous reports (), being largely “protected” from excess fat deposition by oestrogens ().

In this study we assumed that the contribution of protein taste (umami) to food consumption increase can be considered minimal, since the presence of protein (and its quality) was similar (and more than enough in quantities) in all diets; but essentially because dietary protein limits food intake () in part due to its high satiating effect (). The possible effect of protein on food intake in HF groups was, probably, of limited extent, since it was the same (albeit partially diluted) protein of the control diet, and the lack of differences C vs. HF prove that they did not act as a differential inductor of satiety as in other models (). Conversely, the higher intake of protein in cafeteria groups should elicit a higher satiating effect of proteins; opposing, in fact, the combined actions of sugar and salt (and fat taste) inducing higher food intake. The balance of these opposing effects did not support a significant role of protein in the control of food intake in this model, being superseded by the hedonic influence of more intense tastes (sweet-salty) of food. To our knowledge, no effects of salt enhancing the properties on amino acid and umami taste has been described, so far, in rats ().

Conclusions

The data presented confirm the higher taste-induced appetite of rats for cafeteria diets, which we can also describe as multichoice high-fat, high-sugar and high-salt compared with most high-fat diets. The higher overall energy intake, in part a consequence of the attenuated satiation mechanisms, the increased variety of food items, and the comfort-food effect (the latter—probably largely as a consequence of the admixture and abundance of sweet-salty taste of food items) enhance the effect of the cafeteria diet to rapidly increase body energy stores. These combined actions favour the development of metabolic syndrome. The perils linked to cafeteria diets are not, thus, limited to high dietary fat content and energy density, but largely to a powerful hedonic component (taste) which can effectively override the normal mechanisms, controlling food (energy) intake.

Funding Statement

This study was initially developed with the partial support of grant AGL-2011-23635 of the Plan Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos of the Government of Spain. The CIBER-OBN Research Net also contributed to support the study. There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Laia Oliva performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Tània Aranda, Giada Caviola and Anna Fernández-Bernal performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Marià Alemany analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

José Antonio Fernández-López analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Xavier Remesar conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The Committee on Animal Experimentation of the University of Barcelona authorized the specific procedures used: Procedure DAAM 6911.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

University of Barcelona institutional repository:

http://hdl.handle.net/2445/111074.

 

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