NCT01383902

Chocolate Meal Study

The Effect of Meal Type on the Rate of Gastric Emptying

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Quadram Institute Bioscience · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This comparative pilot study is designed to compare the rates of gastric emptying and by inference rates of digestion of challenge meals. Two types of meal will be compared, chocolate mousse style dessert and chocolate bars. The information from this study will then be compared to the elicitation times for both objective and subjective symptoms in the allergic patients who have been challenged in a different study using the same two meals.

Conditions

• Impact of Food Composition on Gastric Emptying

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Food type	1ml, 1ml, 5ml, 50ml, 6ml, 20ml, 60ml and 200ml of chocolate dessert or 1 g, 1 segment (5 segments to a bar) repeated 6 times, 2 bars repeated twice of chocolate bars

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-11-01
• First posted: 2011-06-28
• Last updated: 2011-06-28

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom