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Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition? In 2019, researcher Patricia Jurado Gonzalez and food historian Nawal Nasrallah prepared a stew from a 4,000-year-old recipe found on a Mesopotamian clay tablet. When they tasted the dish, known as pašrūtum ('unwinding'), they found that it had a mild taste and inspired a sense of calm. ______ the researchers, knowing that dishes were sometimes named after their intended effects, theorized that the dish's name, 'unwinding,' referred to its function: to help ancient diners relax.