NCT02908854

Using Spices and Herbs to Increase Vegetable Intake Among Urban High School Students

Using Spices and Herbs to Increase Vegetable Intake Among Urban High School Students in the National School Lunch Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A two-phase, school-based intervention will be conducted at a high school in Baltimore to evaluate whether the addition of spices and herbs to vegetable dishes in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) can increase vegetable intake among students in an urban and predominantly African-American high school.

Detailed description

The proposed research will be conducted at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore, Maryland. In this two-phase intervention, the research team will work in Phase I with stakeholders throughout the high school community to identify the barriers to vegetable intake in the NSLP in this student population and to determine how spices and herbs might help overcome these barriers. The stakeholders with whom we will collaborate will include students, school administration, and cafeteria staff. Phase II will focus on the direct measurement of vegetable intake among students both before and after spices and herbs are added to the vegetables in the NSLP. The spiced vegetable recipes that received the most favorable student rankings in the taste tests of Phase I will be offered. The vegetable recipes flavored with spices and herbs will meet all NSLP requirements for fat, sugar, total calories, and all other guidelines. Student vegetable intake will be assessed through two outcomes: 1.) plate waste, and 2.) production waste.

Conditions

• Poor Nutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Adding spices and herbs to school lunch vegetables	Direct measurement of school lunch vegetable intake among students both before and after spices and herbs are added.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2016-09-21
• Last updated: 2021-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States