{"id":329619,"date":"2025-08-09T04:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:09:08","slug":"meghan-markles-super-healthy-favourite-snack-that-tricks-the-brain-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329619\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle’s super healthy favourite snack that ‘tricks the brain’ | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle<\/a> is a well-known foodie, and one of her favourite snacks<\/a> is not only particularly healthy but affordable, with a clever twist, too. The Duchess of Sussex has long spoken about her love of food<\/a>, both during her career as an actress<\/a> and after her departure from the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

More recently, Meghan’s passion was on full display as she released a whole series on Netflix<\/a> focusing on hosting, in which she showed some of her favourite recipes to friends. But years before she even met Prince Harry<\/a>, the Duchess would rely on one particular snack to keep her on track.<\/p>\n

Meghan revealed that she would always carry this particular set with her at work or when she’s at home – watermelon with cinnamon.<\/p>\n

She said on the Today Show in 2012: “On set and at home, I try to always have a container of watermelon sprinkled with cinnamon because it elevates the flavour just a notch, and makes it feel special.”<\/p>\n

A food expert praised the weird combination and stressed how it “tricks the brain” to fight sugar cravings.<\/p>\n

Renae Smith, a PR expert who is also a consultant and MasterChef contestant, told Hello!<\/a> magazine: “While it might sound unusual at first, Meghan\u2019s go-to snack of watermelon dusted with cinnamon actually makes sense from both a flavour and nutrition perspective.<\/p>\n

“Watermelon is naturally sweet and hydrating, and it does have vitamin C and antioxidants.”<\/p>\n

Ms Smith spoke about the benefits of cinnamon, saying that it can aid in regulating blood sugar and may even have anti-inflammatory properties.<\/p>\n

She explained: “What’s really clever about cinnamon, too, is that cinnamon enhances the perception of sweetness without adding sugar.<\/p>\n

“It works by subtly tricking the brain into experiencing a more intense flavour. Vanilla does the same, so it’s not just a refreshing snack, it’s a bit of a hack too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle is a well-known foodie, and one of her favourite snacks is not only particularly healthy but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,8009,20412,8010,7720,1281,118612,118610,1487,8003,1488,118611,56207,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-329619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-harry-and-meghan","13":"tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","14":"tag-harry-and-meghan-news","15":"tag-meghan","16":"tag-meghan-markle","17":"tag-meghan-markle-favourite-snack","18":"tag-meghan-markle-food","19":"tag-meghan-markle-latest","20":"tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","21":"tag-meghan-markle-news","22":"tag-meghan-markle-snack","23":"tag-meghan-markle-update","24":"tag-prince-harry","25":"tag-royal-families","26":"tag-royal-family","27":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114996849201973187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}