Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02522559
Using Herbs and Spices to Increase Children's Acceptance and Intake of Vegetables in School Lunches
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 110 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Penn State University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 11 Years – 19 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Herbs and spices offer one potential solution to the recent decline in children taking school lunch because they can increase the palatability of foods without adding salt and fat. However, there is currently limited evidence on how to successfully integrate herbs and spices into the school lunch menu. Developing evidence-based methods to teach school cafeteria workers to prepare healthy and tasty vegetable dishes with the addition of herbs and spices is a research priority. The investigators hypothesize that herbs and spices can be used to increase acceptance, intake, and participation in the school lunch program among 6th - 12th grade students from Central Pennsylvania.
Detailed description
What this study will add to the literature: Herbs and spices offer one potential solution to the recent decline in children taking school lunch because they can increase the palatability of foods without adding salt and fat. However, there is currently limited evidence on how to successfully integrate herbs and spices into the school lunch menu. Developing evidence-based methods to teach school cafeteria workers to prepare healthy and tasty vegetable dishes with the addition of herbs and spices is a research priority. This research will provide evidence that herbs and spices can be used to increase acceptance, intake, and participation in the school lunch program among 6th - 12th grade students from Central Pennsylvania.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Spice Intervention | Spice Intervention:Novel herb and spice blends will be used in cafeteria recipes. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-04-14
- Primary completion
- 2017-12-22
- Completion
- 2017-12-22
- First posted
- 2015-08-13
- Last updated
- 2018-01-05
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02522559. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.