Harvesting Health: Advancing Nutrition and Wellness for Moms and Babies

This study, called "Harvesting Health," is looking at whether providing personalized food kits to pregnant women can improve their diet quality and pregnancy outcomes. Researchers want to see if receiving these biweekly food kits, which contain fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, protein, and fats, is better than standard prenatal care alone. They will measure diet quality using the Healthy Eating Index from the beginning of the study until six weeks after you give birth. You might be able to join if you are a pregnant woman between 18 and 45 years old, 7-12 weeks pregnant with one baby, and live in the Dallas-Fort Worth or College Station areas. The study aims to enroll 800 participants, but its current recruitment status is unclear.

Study design
This is a randomized controlled trial, meaning you would be randomly assigned to either receive the food kit or not. It plans to enroll 800 participants.
What's involved
You would attend regular study visits for clinical data collection and complete questionnaires about your diet and health. If in the intervention group, you would order and receive a personalized food kit every two weeks.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Your diet quality will be measured from the start of the study until six weeks postpartum.

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NCT07659821

Harvesting Health: Advancing Nutrition and Wellness for Moms and Babies

Recruiting
NAAges 18–45InterventionalPrevention
Texas A&M University
~800 participants
Updated 2026-06-30 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Food Kit

At a glance

Recruiting sites
3 of 3 listed sites are recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Healthy Eating Index
Measured over Baseline to 6 weeks postpartum
Pregnant Women With Singleton Pregnancies

NCT07659821

Where you'd take part

This study runs at 3 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • Texas A&M AgriLife Research Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture

    College Station, Texasstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

  • Texas A&M AgriLife Research Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture

    Dallas, Texasstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

  • Texas A&M AgriLife Research Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture / Methodist Mansfield Medical Center

    Mansfield, Texasstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

  • Rebecca L Seguin-Fowler, PhD, RDN, LD, CSCS · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Texas A&M AgriLife Research
  • Erica Bender, MSN, CNM, NP-Ob/Gyn · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, PhD, RDN, LD, CSCS
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Pregnant individuals 7-12 weeks of gestation at the time of enrollment
Aged 18-45 years
Carrying a singleton pregnancy
Able to read and speak in English or Spanish
Reside and plan to receive prenatal and postpartum care within the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area or College Station area.
Willing to travel to Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, or Tarrant counties for in-person data collection visits
Willing to receive the food kit from local partners through delivery or in-person pick-up, as applicable
Verification of established or planned prenatal care with a prenatal healthcare provider
Access to a smartphone
Willing and able to provide informed consent

Exclusion

Diagnosis of pre-existing type 1 diabetes
Significant chronic medical conditions that might impact pregnancy outcomes or study participation (e.g., severe hypertension, renal disease)
Multiple gestation
Fetal anomaly
History of bariatric surgery or other conditions that affect nutrient absorption
Current eating disorder
Current use of exclusionary medications (i.e., systemic steroids or anti-seizure medications)
Continued use of weight loss medication
Substance use disorder
Current or planned enrollment in another intervention study of any type
Inability to comply with study procedures (e.g., cognitive impairment, plan to move away before study completion, loss of pregnancy)
  • Healthy Eating IndexBaseline to 6 weeks postpartum

    Ranging from 0 to 100, a higher Healthy Eating Index {HEI) score indicates a diet rich in healthy components (fruits, vegetables, whole grains) and lower in moderation components (sodium, added sugars, saturated fats). Calculated from 24-hour recalls collected via Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR).