NCT02090478

The Effect of Dietary Sugar Consumption on Sweet Taste Perception

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Monell Chemical Senses Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine how reducing the amount of simple sugars in the diet affects sweet taste perception. Healthy adult subjects will be assigned to either follow their usual diet, or to replace sugar calories with fats or starch. The investigators hypothesize that eating less sugar will: 1. cause foods and drinks with a given amount of sugar to taste sweeter 2. cause people to prefer lower levels of sugar in foods and drinks

Conditions

• Sweet Taste Perception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low sugar diet	All subjects followed their usual diet during month 1. For months 2-4: sham diet intervention for the control group, 40% reduction in sugar calories for the experimental group. All subjects were allowed to chose any diet they wished during month 5.
OTHER	Sham diet manipulation	Subjects in the control group will meet with a dietician and discuss diet records, but the dietician will not instruct the control subjects to reduce the number of calories from simple sugars in the diet

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2014-03-18
• Last updated: 2014-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States