A FULL English breakfast could boost your sex appeal, scientists say.
A study suggests women are more likely to fancy a man with a sausage on his plate than one who starts the day with jam on toast.
Men who eat more refined carbohydrates, found in white bread, sugary cereals, pastries and fruit juice, are rated less manly and less attractive.
Women are also not as dishy if they eat a lot of sugar, the study found.
It added that the same effect is true long term, with cake and doughnut lovers more of a turn-off than people who stick to meat and veg with fruit and nuts for snacks.
Breakfasts resulting in an increase in attractiveness comprised mainly fats and proteins
Claire Berticat
Experts at the University of Montpellier in France said junk food causes subtle changes to someone’s face right after they eat as well as long-term weight gain.
Writing in the journal Plos One, study author Claire Berticat said: “The breakfast consumed just before a photo session had a significant effect on attractiveness for both sexes.
“Men with a higher breakfast energy intake were perceived as more masculine by women but a high glycemic breakfast decreases facial attractiveness for both men and women.
“Breakfasts resulting in an increase in attractiveness comprised mainly fats and proteins, such as dairy, with few refined carbohydrates.”
The theory was tested on 102 French men and women of about equal attractiveness.
Passport-style photos were taken two hours after breakfast and rated by 250 strangers in the street.
The test found that a breakfast’s glycemic index, which measures how much it changes blood sugar levels, was linked to how much people fancied the person who ate it.
White bread with jam, a glass of fruit juice and tea or coffee with sugar were linked to lower sex appeal than brown bread with butter and cheese, an orange or apple and a hot drink with no sugar.
Full English ingredients are low in sugar so likely to land diners in the more attractive group.
A fry-up typically has bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms, tomato and baked beans with a piece of toast.
It is regularly crowned Brits’ favourite way to start the day and we eat more than 10million cooked breakfasts every year.
