NCT01667549

Sensitive Periods in Human Flavor Learning

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: Monell Chemical Senses Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Weeks – 3 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goals of the proposed research are to specify the timing and consequences of the sensitive period for flavor learning in infants who are being breastfed or formula fed. The investigators will conduct a randomized within- and between-subject study of women and their infants during a 15-month window.

Detailed description

This is a randomized clinical trial on both breastfeeding and formula feeding infants to determine the effects of the timing of flavor experiences on subsequent food acceptance in both members of the dyad.

Conditions

• Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Timing of Diet and Flavor Experience	Groups differ in the timing and duration of exposure to flavored food experience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-11-30
• First posted: 2012-08-17
• Last updated: 2019-12-09
• Results posted: 2019-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States