Pasta Formulations, Portion Sizes and Their Effect on Appetite

Summary

Investigators are interested in learning how appetite responds to pasta containing different amounts of protein and fiber when provided in two different portion sizes.

In this research study, subjects will be asked to eat an entire pasta serving containing different amounts of protein and fiber mixtures. Subjects will be asked to do this on six separate occasions. One time subjects will not receive pasta, only water.

After the pasta serving, there will be a buffet of deli style lunch items and subjects may eat as much they desire. Thereafter subjects will describe their feelings of hunger, fullness and desire to eat for 3 hours. In addition, blood will be taken throughout the study period to determine how eating pasta servings in different portion sizes impacts certain hormones released from the intestine, and therefore how they influence appetite. All study visits will take approximately 4 ½ - 5 hours.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Appetite

Interventions

OTHER

Control, small

control pasta, small portion

OTHER

Experimental B, small

experimental pasta, small portion

OTHER

Experimental pasta C, small

experimental pasta C, small portion

OTHER

control, medium

control pasta, medium portion

OTHER

experimental pasta B, medium

experimental pasta B, medium portion

OTHER

experimental pasta C, medium

experimental pasta C, medium portion

OTHER

NL

no pasta, water only

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Barilla America, Inc.

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

  lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

• Britt Burton-Freeman, PhD, MS · Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

• Indika Edirisinghe, PhD · Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-09-15

Primary Completion

2011-11-18

Completion

2011-11-18

Countries

• United States

Study Locations