Clinical trials: Food Selection
Obesity, Food Labeling
Nudging Nutrition With Monetary Incentives Environmental Cues
The investigators hypothesize that monetary incentives and messaging, such as making nutritious foods relatively less expensive than less nutritious foods and framing the price difference in a positive or negative way, will…
- Conditions
- Obesity, Food Labeling, Health Behavior, Diet
- Trial name
- NCT02461108
- Testing
- Subsidy, Tax, Tax and subsidy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 221 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cornell University
Nutrition Poor
A Default Option to Enhance Dietary Quality in Participants With Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is associated with an increased risk of overweight/obesity and weight-related chronic illnesses. The availability of a default option (i.e., option a consumer selects if no active choice is made) has been shown to…
- Trial name
- NCT03952949
- Testing
- Default Option While Online Grocery Shopping, Nutrition Education
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University at Albany
Diet, Food Choice, Taste
Salivary Interactions With Chemosensations
A counterbalanced, crossover design will be used to evaluate whether exposure to flavors vs. a control over time alters the perception of the flavor by changing an individual's salivary protein profile.
- Trial name
- NCT03883880
- Testing
- Epigallocatechin gallate, Epigallocatechin gallate control, Linoleic acid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Bioequivalence and Food Effect Study in Healthy Volunteers
The purpose of this study is to select the formulation with the optimal pharmacokinetic profile for an hypnotic drug to further develop in the market.
- Trial name
- NCT00495274
- Testing
- Formulation A, Formulation B, Formulation C
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- GlaxoSmithKline
Food Selection
Testing Non-Nutrition Menu Labels on Food Selections
The primary objective of this study is to test the relative effects of environmental harm menu label designs on the healthfulness of consumers' fast-food meal choices.
- Trial name
- NCT07536126
- Testing
- Control (QR) Labels, Low Environmental Harm Labels, High Environmental Harm Labels
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Food Selection
Satiety Effects of Pulses Compared to Matched Protein Smoothie
The satiety effects of pulses compared to a matched smoothie will be measured.
- Trial name
- NCT02334540
- Testing
- purses, a calorie/protein matched smoothie
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Children, Only, Behavior, Eating
School Lunch Salad Bars and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The investigators propose an efficacy study (i.e., do salad bars work under controlled conditions in naturalistic settings) to test whether introducing salad bars in elementary, middle, and high schools that have never had salad…
- Conditions
- Children, Only, Behavior, Eating, School, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT03283033
- Testing
- New salad bar, Marketing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7,491 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Food Preferences, Obesity
Vending Labeling Sales and Intercepts Study
The aim of this study is to compare the impact of 4 different types of front of package (FOP) food and beverage messages: 1) green labels on healthy foods, 2) red/yellow/green labels on less healthy/moderately healthy/healthy…
- Conditions
- Food Preferences, Obesity, Weight Gain
- Trial name
- NCT06260176
- Testing
- exposure to healthy labels only, exposure to healthiness information, exposure to physical activity equivalents
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,065 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Obesity
Respiratory Quotient and Food Liking, Food Wanting and Food Consumption
The purpose of this study is to observe the influence of carbohydrate-to-fat balance on liking, wanting and food consumption in humans. 16 normal-weight men (age: 23 ± 3 y)had completed a randomized 4-condition crossover study.
- Trial name
- NCT01122082
- Testing
- food preloads
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Burgundy
Behavior, Child, Food Selection
Nudging for Behavior Change in School Cafeterias
The main purpose of this research is to look at a school lunchroom intervention that is known to improve fruit, vegetable, and milk consumption and see how it changes in the long run and if it affects the child's behavior…
- Trial name
- NCT04156542
- Testing
- Basic School Lunchroom Nudges
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Obesity, Eating Behavior
Portion Size and To-go Container on Dinner Intake
This study investigated whether the provision of a to-go container influenced the portion size effect at a meal. Following a screening visit, women came to the lab once a week for 4 weeks to eat a meal of multiple foods.
- Trial name
- NCT03502096
- Testing
- To-Go container, Control
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Weight, Food Choice
Promoting Employee Health Through The Worksite Food Environment
This project tests a scalable and sustainable approach to weight gain prevention in a population of employees by using the worksite environment to deliver personalized feedback about worksite food purchases, daily calorie goals…
- Conditions
- Weight, Food Choice, Nutrition Intake
- Trial name
- ChooseWell 365 (NCT02660086)
- Testing
- Personalized nutrition feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 602 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Nutrition Labeling, Tax Policy
Supermarket Labelling and Taxation Study
Participants will be assigned to one of four conditions: (i) nutrient warning labelling and no taxation, (ii) nutrient warning labelling and taxation, (iii) current traffic light labelling and taxation or (iv) a control condition…
- Trial name
- NCT07339982
- Testing
- Labelling, Taxation
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 829 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Liverpool
Food Selection
MENU Study: Online Experiment
The primary objective of this study is to test the relative effects of climate-impact menu label designs on the healthfulness of consumers' fast-food meal choices.
- Trial name
- NCT06909019
- Testing
- Control (QR) Labels, Low Climate Impact Labels, High Climate Impact Labels
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6,294 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Food Selection, Food Preferences
Feasibility and Impact of the FOOD4MOMS Produce Prescription Program Among Pregnant Latina Women
The study will include women enrolled during the second trimester of pregnancy who will be provided with a specific amount per month for 10 months to purchase produce.
- Conditions
- Food Selection, Food Preferences, Food Insecurity
- Trial name
- FOOD4MOMS (NCT05907616)
- Testing
- Produce purchase incentive
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 154 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Healthy
A Crossover Study to Evaluate Relative Bioavailability of Simeprevir Age-appropriate Oral Formulation Candidates Compared With 150-milligram (mg) Oral Capsule in Healthy Adult Participants
The purpose of this study is to assess the relative bioavailability (the extent to which a drug or other substance becomes available to the body) of simeprevir (SMV) following single dose administration of age-appropriate oral…
- Trial name
- NCT02385071
- Testing
- Treatment A, Treatment B, Treatment C
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
Food Selection, Obesity
A Default Option for Health: Improving Nutrition Within the Financial and Geographic Constraints of Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is associated with an increased risk of obesity. The availability of a default option (i.e., option a consumer selects if no active choice is made) has been shown to effectively nudge consumer behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT04186533
- Testing
- Default Option, Nutrition Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University at Albany
Food Choice
Delays to Influence Snack Choice
The pervasiveness of high-calorie, nutrient-poor snacks in the environment is believed to have contributed to the epidemic levels of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the U.S.
- Trial name
- DISC (NCT02359916)
- Testing
- Time delays on delivery of less healthy snacks, 25%/$0.25 discount on healthy snacks, 25%/$0.25 tax on less healthy snacks
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32,662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
Eating Behavior
Provision of Small vs. Large Portion Sizes and Later Food Intake
In 3 laboratory experiments the effect that receiving a small vs. large portion size of food has on later intake of that food was examined
- Trial name
- NCT03241576
- Testing
- Small portion size provision, Large portion size provision
- Volunteers
- 307 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Liverpool
Obesity
Executive Function Training in Childhood Obesity: Food Choice, Quality of Life and Brain Connectivity
This study evaluates if executive function training in obese children can improve food-related choices and produce cognitive and neuroimaging changes, but also improve psychological and physical status and quality of life…
- Trial name
- TOuCH (NCT03615274)
- Testing
- Executive function training, Psychoeducation
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 46 people
- Sponsor
- University of Barcelona