Compulsive grazing is accompanied by the feeling that the person is not able to resist going back to repetitively snack on the desired food.
[3][4] Several terms such as picking, nibbling, and snacking have been used indiscriminately in the literature to characterize grazing-type patterns of repetitive eating in humans.
[1][2][5] In 2014, Eva Conceição and colleagues proposed a consensual definition for grazing based on the opinion of various experts in the field.
[2] It is considered as a risk behavior for adults undergoing weight loss treatment[1][2][5][6][7] due to its associations with Body Mass Index and a great variability on weight-loss trajectories after bariatric surgery.
[6] Respondents rate the frequency of grazing eating behaviors in the previous month using a Likert scale ranging from 0 (never) to 6 (every day).