NCT06882252

Increasing Lean Protein Intake in Preschool-age Children and Assessing Effects on Cognition and Select Health Outcomes

Increasing Lean Protein Intake in Preschool-age Children

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RDN · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The proposed project addresses the goal of exploring preschooler's ability to recognize changes in feelings of hunger/satiety based on consuming a snack and a meal (lunch/dinner) that are either based on the usual childcare center fare (control) or are based on lean meats (intervention), which will have a lower glycemic index.

Conditions

• Diet Modification

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low glycemic index diet	Replacement of typical meal/snack with lean pork containing meal/snack

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-08
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2025-03-18
• Last updated: 2025-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States