NCT06758869

Pulse Revolution: Enhancing Metabolic Health Through the Power of Processed Chickpeas

Effects of Daily Consumption of Processed Pulse-based Food Products on Physiological Responses Related to Energy Metabolism and Metabolic Health

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 204 (estimated)
• Sponsor: USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to test how processing can affect how one's body uses the nutrients in that food. For this study the researchers are examining how making different food products out of chickpeas, such as hummus or pasta, changes how one's body uses those foods for energy.

Detailed description

The overall objective is to determine the impact of daily consumption of processed pulse-based food products on metabolic health, specifically the physiological responses related to energy metabolism. The primary hypothesis is that consuming a serving of pulses daily for 12 weeks will improve metabolic responses related to energy metabolism, particularly fat oxidation and molecular adaptations related to fat and glucose metabolism, compared to current Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommendations. Furthermore, we hypothesize that the degree of processing will influence these metabolic adaptations such that the daily consumption of 100% pulse flour food products will result in the greatest effect on fat oxidation and molecular adaptations related to fat and glucose metabolism followed by the pulse purée which will have a greater effect than the whole cooked pulse (100% pulse flour \> purée \> whole).

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Control	Participants will consume the Base DGA diet with a standardized non-pulse product snack.
OTHER	Whole Chickpeas	Participants will consume an adjusted DGA diet with a standardized whole chickpea snack.
OTHER	Puréed Chickpeas	Participants will consume an adjusted DGA diet with a standardized puréed chickpea snack.
OTHER	100% Chickpea Flour Product	Participants will consume an adjusted DGA diet with a standardized 100% chickpea flour product snack.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2029-12-01
• Completion: 2029-12-01
• First posted: 2025-01-06
• Last updated: 2025-11-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States