NCT02909764

Shifting Salty Taste Preferences in Children

Salty Taste: Assessing a Strategy to Reduce Children's Preference

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Monell Chemical Senses Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goals of the proposed research are to determine whether repeated exposure to a low sodium food will result in reduced preference for salt in that food among children; and to determine whether such reductions in preference are related to dietary intake of salt, taste receptor genotype, and anthropometric and physiological measures.

Detailed description

This is a within- and between-subjects randomized controlled trial on children consuming either a low sodium or a higher sodium cereal over a 2-month period to determine if repeated exposure to the low sodium cereal is effective for reducing preference for salt in that food. Children will be genotyped for markers related to taste, dietary intake will be recorded, and anthropometric and physiological measures will be collected at baseline.

Conditions

• Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low Sodium Group	Breakfast Cereal

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2016-09-21
• Last updated: 2019-09-30
• Results posted: 2019-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States