“…The hallmark of the JSSMR protocol is its simplicity: the test meal is a ready-made liquid, which is sanitary and easy to prepare; in busy clinicial settings, the foreshoetened 90-min version is also available, by which clinicians can discriminate between normal and abnormal gastric emptying based on the visually determined Tmax and its reference values (23.3-64.5 min). Recently, clinical and experimental studies using the JSSMR protocol have increasingly been published (Takahashi et al, 2006;Iwase et al, 2009;Shindo et al, 2009;Mishima et al, 2009 (Table 3). The attempt to standardize a solid test meal has resulted in admirable success by adopting a manufactured muffin meal, which can be prepared with minimally complicated procedures.…”