NCT04273659

Combining Cereals With Pulses - Reduced Gastrointestinal Symptoms?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Turku · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare self-reported gastrointestinal symptoms and intestinal fermentation rates of the study products as measured by breath hydrogen and methane in adult population with self-reported mild abdominal sensitivity to pulses. The study products are a pulse products with two different cereals.

Detailed description

The study is a randomized, controlled, double-blind, cross-over intervention trial. The aim is to recruit 25 subjects to the trial. The study will be conducted with a cross-over setting, where the subjects will go through exposure meals and breath gas measurement two times (two different test products) in a randomized order. The study meals are identical in appearance but differ in fiber content. After study breakfast the breath gases are analyzed every 15 minutes during 8 hours.

Conditions

• Unidentified Gastrointestinal Symptoms Following Pulses Consumption

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Pulses and cereals	Dietary intervention. Ingestion of pulses with cereals and gastrointestinal health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-12
• Primary completion: 2021-08-30
• Completion: 2021-08-30
• First posted: 2020-02-18
• Last updated: 2021-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland