The invention relates to a food product inducing satiety with the aim of contributing to weight management. The product contains as its essential ingredients viscous soluble dietary fibre or other thickening agent and fat or fatty acids. A preferred component contained in the product is a barley or oat bran concentrate rich in .beta.-glucan. The product may have a pasty consistency, or it may have a particulate consistency and can be turned to a paste by addition of water.
