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Nitrate INFORMER Vegetable Study

NCT05886023 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2024-04-16

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Summary

Nitrate is a controversial component of vegetables, meat, and drinking water. The now well-established benefits of nitrate, through the enterosalivary nitrate-nitrite-nitric oxide (NO) pathway, on cardiovascular risk factors and long-term cardiovascular disease risk are tarnished by a continuing concern about a link between nitrate ingestion and cancer. This can result in misguided advice to avoid consumption of high-nitrate leafy green vegetables by both the media and the scientific literature. A recent media headline stated, "Cancer alert over rocket: trendy salad leaves exceed safe levels of carcinogenic nitrates in one in every ten samples". One scientific review stated, "the presence of nitrate in vegetables, as in water and generally in other foods, is a serious threat to man's health". Controversy in the literature, and gaps in the knowledge are leading to confusing messages around vegetables that may play a critical role in cardiovascular health.

The major dietary sources of nitrate are vegetables, meat, and drinking water. Source of nitrate could be a crucial factor determining whether the consumption of nitrate is linked with beneficial (such as improving cardiovascular health) versus harmful (N-nitrosamine formation) effects. For example, unlike meat and water-derived nitrate, vegetables contain high levels of vitamin C and/or polyphenols that may inhibit the production of N-nitrosamines. So far, no study has investigated the formation of N-nitrosamines after consumption of these different sources in humans. This study will compare N-nitrosamine formation after intake of vegetables with high nitrate content and vegetables with a low nitrate content.

Conditions

  • Health Risk Behaviors

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

High nitrate vegetables

Vegetable burger containing high nitrate vegetables

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Low nitrate vegetables

Vegetable burger containing to low nitrate vegetables

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Western Australia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Flinders University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Edith Cowan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Catherine Bondonno, PhD · Edith Cowan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-26
Primary Completion
2023-10-31
Completion
2023-10-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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