The Breakfast Study: How Different Aspects of Food Affect Eating
This study, called "The Breakfast Study," is looking at how different types of food, especially how they are processed, affect how full you feel. Researchers want to see if eating a breakfast made mostly of ultra-processed foods (UPF) or minimally processed foods (MPF) changes your feeling of fullness. You would eat one type of breakfast during your first visit and the other type during your second visit. The main goal is to measure the difference in how full you feel using a special scale. This study is for healthy individuals between 18 and 50 years old who regularly eat breakfast and are not allergic to the study foods. Forty people are planned to join this study.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 40 healthy individuals. Participants will receive either an UPF breakfast or an MPF breakfast at two separate visits.
- What's involved
- You would attend two in-person visits on a weekday and/or Saturday. During these visits, you will be provided with different types of breakfast.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your feeling of fullness will be measured at Day 1 and Day 15.
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The Breakfast Study: How Different Aspects of Food Affect Eating
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Julie Hess, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
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What this trial measures
- Difference in satiety as determined by visual analogue scales (VAS)Day 1, Day 15
Participants will complete visual analogue scales (VAS) on satiety measures during each study visit. VAS are represented by 100mm lines anchored at each end by descriptive extremes. For satiety, these extremes are statements about desire to eat (very weak; very strong), hunger (not hungry; as hungry as I've ever felt), fullness (not full; totally full), satisfied (completely empty; cannot eat another bite), prospective consumption (not at all; a large amount). Participants indicate via marks on the VAS line the extent to which they experience each sensation at a given timepoint. Measurements are tracked across time and plotted on a graph from baseline to the time preceding the next meal and the area under the curve above the baseline measurement is calculated.