Recruiting

Taste Perception

Sponsor:

The Miriam Hospital

Code:

NCT01758302

Conditions

Food Consumption

Perseverance

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Simple physical task

Complex physical task

Cookies

Vegetables

No physical task

Study Details

Brief summary:

This one time pilot laboratory study focuses on examining the relationship between different types of physical tasks and taste perception of high and low-calorie foods among hungry individuals.

Conditions

Food Consumption

Perseverance

Study ID

NCT01758302

Start date

Jan, 2012

Status verified date

Dec, 2012

Completion date

Aug, 2013

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug, 2013

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Willing to travel to laboratory around lunchtime for the study
  • Willing to abstain from eating and drinking caloric beverages for at least 4 hours prior to completing the study
  • Typically eats lunch

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Diabetes, eating disorder, or any other condition that makes it unadvisable for participant to refrain from eating or drinking caloric beverages for 4 hours.
  • Food allergies that would prevent participants from eating chocolate chip cookies or vegetables
  • Pregnant or lactating
  • Typically goes for longer than 5 hours (not counting sleep time) between meals and snacks
  • Physical disabilities that would make it difficult for the participant to walk or to use their hands to grasp objects

Study Design

Enrollment

120 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: No physical task + Taste cookies

Participants in this arm do not engage in a physical activity task. They are asked to taste test chocolate chip cookies.

active comparator: No physical task + Taste vegetable

Participant does not complete a physical activity. Asked to taste test raw celery or radishes.

active comparator: Simple physical task + Taste vegetables

Participants are asked to complete a simple physical task and are asked to taste test raw celery or radishes.

active comparator: Complex physical task + Taste vegetables

Participants complete a more complex physical task that is novel and challenging. They are asked to taste test raw celery or radishes.

Interventions

Simple physical task

Participants are asked to complete a 1-time simple physical task that is not challenging nor novel (moving small objects across a room).

Complex physical task

Participants are asked to complete a 1-time physical task that is low intensity but somewhat complex (involves a novel request to move objects in a way that is challenging and requires some coordination).

Cookies

Participants are asked to taste test chocolate chip cookies

Vegetables

Participants are asked to taste test raw celery or radishes

No physical task

As a control, for 2 of the arms, participants are not asked to engage in a physical task

Primary outcome measure

  • physical perseverance [ Time Frame: 1 hour ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Xiaomeng Xu, PhD

401-793-8237xxu1@lifespan.org

Locations

The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center

Recruiting

Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903

Contacts

Xiaomeng Xu, PhD

401-793-8237xxu1@lifespan.org

Tricia Leahey, PhD

401-793-8947tleahey@lifespan.org

Principal Investigator:

Xiaomeng Xu, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

The Miriam Hospital

Last update posted

Jan 1, 2013

Last verified

Dec, 2012

Keywords

  • taste test
  • food consumption
  • hunger

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Miriam Hospital on 2013-01-01.