NCT01145963

Pasta Formulations and Their Effect on Appetite

Understanding Pasta Formulations on Satiation in Healthy Weight Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology · Industry
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Investigators are interested in learning how appetite responds to pasta containing different amounts of protein and fiber. In this research study, subjects will be asked to eat as much as they want of pasta containing different amounts of protein and fiber mixtures, thereafter subjects will describe their feelings of hunger, fullness and desire to eat for 3 hours afterwards. Subjects will be asked to do this on three separate occasions.

Detailed description

The study is a randomized, 3-arm, treatment-controlled, within-subjects, 3-hour postprandial crossover study to evaluate the satiation effects of pasta formulations on lunch intake in healthy weight women. The study design will test 3 varying pasta formulations (2 experimental and 1 standard control) in a lunch setting in relatively healthy unrestrained women. This study will require one initial screening visit (approximately 1 hour) and three study visits each lasting approximately 4 hours. All visits should be done in 1 month. We are looking for healthy, non-smoking women older than 18 years of age with no significant medical history. The initial screening visit will determine subject eligibility through height, weight and waist circumference measurements, blood glucose test (finger prick) and eating, health, exercise and mood surveys. If willing and eligible to participate, subjects will have 3 study visits. At each visits, subjects will be asked to consume as much as they would like of the pasta meal and beverage in a lunch setting and thereafter will be followed for 3 hours assessing subjective feelings of satiety. The lunch meal will be provided 5 hours after a standardized breakfast (usual breakfast for each subject at the same time of day on each study visit day). During the course of the study, subjects will be instructed to maintain their usual level of activity and diet. Four day food records will be maintained throughout the course of the study.

Conditions

• Appetite

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Control pasta	control pasta
OTHER	Experimental pasta B	experimental pasta
OTHER	Experimental pasta C	experimental pasta

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-19
• Completion: 2018-12-19
• First posted: 2010-06-17
• Last updated: 2021-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States