NCT01830686

Metabolic Effects of Short Term Sugarcane Bagasse Supplementation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to help understand the benefits of eating food supplemented with fiber in the form of sugarcane bagasse (the leftover fiber after cane juice is extracted) on glucose metabolism and body weight.

Detailed description

The investigators will employ a double-blind randomized controlled study design with 3 arms such that obese, insulin resistant adults will be randomly selected to receive food made with 1) sugarcane bagasse, 2) non-caloric, non-fermentable fiber, or 3) a similar product with minimal fiber for 4 weeks. The intervention will be in the form of brownies and cookies and will look and taste nearly identical to each other. Caloric value will be constant with all three delivery systems. Subjects will have blood testing and body composition analysis before and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Insulin Resistance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Sugarcane bagasse	One brownie containing 10 g of sugarcane bagasse and 2 cookies containing 3 g of sugarcane bagasse (total of 13 g of sugarcane bagasse per day)
OTHER	Non-caloric, non-fermentable fiber	One brownie containing 10 g of fiber and 2 cookies containing 3 g of fiber (total of 13 g of non-caloric, non-fermentable fiber per day)
OTHER	Minimal fiber	One brownie containing 3g of fiber and two cookies containing 1g of fiber (total of 4 g of dietary fiber per day)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-01-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-04-12
• Last updated: 2016-02-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States