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The Effect of Dietary Sugar Consumption on Sweet Taste Perception

NCT02090478 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2014-03-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine how reducing the amount of simple sugars in the diet affects sweet taste perception. Healthy adult subjects will be assigned to either follow their usual diet, or to replace sugar calories with fats or starch.

The investigators hypothesize that eating less sugar will:

1. cause foods and drinks with a given amount of sugar to taste sweeter
2. cause people to prefer lower levels of sugar in foods and drinks

Conditions

  • Sweet Taste Perception

Interventions

OTHER

Low sugar diet

All subjects followed their usual diet during month 1. For months 2-4: sham diet intervention for the control group, 40% reduction in sugar calories for the experimental group. All subjects were allowed to chose any diet they wished during month 5.

OTHER

Sham diet manipulation

Subjects in the control group will meet with a dietician and discuss diet records, but the dietician will not instruct the control subjects to reduce the number of calories from simple sugars in the diet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • PepsiCo Global R&D

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Monell Chemical Senses Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paul M Wise, PhD · Monell Chemical Senses Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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