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Researchers have [discovered / discovering] that people eat more vegetables if the veggies have [trend / trendy] labels. A research team from Stanford University in the USA found [what / that] sales of vegetables increased by 25 per cent after they were [given / giving] trendy-sounding names. The researchers conducted their research [in / on] 600 diners for several months at the university canteen. They labeled all vegetable dishes [in / on] four different [ways / weighs] each day. [Diners / Donors] could select vegetable dishes with a "basic" label (for example with [justly / just] the word "carrots"), a "healthy restrictive" label ("carrots with sugar-free citrus dressing"), a "health positive" label ("smart-choice vitamin C citrus carrots") [or / on] a trendy label ("twisted citrus-glazed carrots").

Researchers gave diners a wide [choice / choose] of vegetables to see how effective the trendy labels [be / were] . They used beetroot, butternut squash, carrots, corn, courgettes, green beans and sweet potato [in / by] their test. These had [named / names] like "twisted garlic-ginger butternut squash wedges," or "dynamite chilli," and "tangy lime-seasoned beets". They [funded / found] that the vegetable dishes with the trendy labels were [by / at] far the most popular. These [dishes / dish] were 25 per cent more popular than those with the "basic" labelling, and 41 per cent more [populated / popular] than [them / those] with the "healthy restrictive" labelling. A researcher said: "Labels really can influence our sensory experience, affecting how [tasty / tasted] and filling we think food will be."

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