NCT05297357

Complementary Weaning With Adult Food Typical of the Mediterranean Diet

Complementary Weaning With Adult Food Typical of the Mediterranean Diet and it Effect on Taste Development and Eating Habits of Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 394 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federico II University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Months – 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials was conducted to study the medium-long term impact of a complementary weaning using adult foods typical of Mediterranean Diets (MD) on children taste development and eating habits, and on the microbiota composition. Main objectives were to assess the effect of such weaning scheme on: 1. medium-long term adherence of the children to the MD (Primary aim). 2. familial eating habits to verify how many changes may come from an early education of the kid toward a Mediterranean eating style 3. the BMI of the children 4. gut microbiota composition

Conditions

• Weaning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Mediterranean Diet weaning scheme	Kids in experimental group were weaned by using fresh foods traditionally used in MD and appropriately adapted to infants including seasonal fruit and vegetables, various kinds of fresh blue fish, spices and herbs. No salt was used while a small amount of Parmesan cheese was added. No sugar was added to any meal.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2022-03-28
• Last updated: 2022-03-28