Sustainable Diets in Families in Copenhagen

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Insect Proteins
• Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Plant menus; Dietary Supplement: Insect menus

• Registration Number: NCT05156853
• Lead Sponsor: University of Copenhagen

Brief Summary

SUSINCHAIN investigates the impact of exposing families (an adult and a child) to meals with alternative proteins (insect-based or plant-based products) on dietary pattern, intake of meat and total protein.

Detailed Description

The overall objective of this study is to investigate the impact of exposing paired participants (an adult and a child) to dinner menus of meals with alternative proteins (insect-based or plant-based products) on dietary pattern, intake of meat, and protein over a six-week intervention period. The insect-based menu is the experimental exposure and the plant-based menu is the positive control menu.

The hypothesis is that test menus of meals with alternative proteins will replace the meat consumed during dinner, resulting in maintaining the total protein intake while replacing 20% of the meat protein with alternative protein on a weekly basis.

The assumption is that the insect-based menus will replace meat protein similarly or to a larger extend than the positive control group receiving the comparable plant-based menu. The inclusion of the positive control group allows us to isolate the specific impact of exposure to insect-based menu from the exposure to dietary change of more familiar plant-based products.

The study is a randomized intervention trial recruiting 80 paired participants of an adult and a child age 8-10 year living together in a family, alone or with other family members. The paired participants are randomized to receive one of two menus of meals with alternative proteins, either plant-based or insect-based. Measurements (dietary records, questionnaires) as well as biological samples (urine collection) are taken primarily at baseline (week 0) and endline (week 6).

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-12-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-01
• Study First Posted: 2021-12-14
• Study Start: 2022-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-04-28
• Status Verified: 2023-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-09-13
• Last Update Posted: 2023-09-14
• Study Completion: 2023-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Plant-based menu	Plant menus	Replacement of meat proteins with plant-based alternatives at main meals 3 times weekly.
Insect-based menu	Insect menus	Replacement of meat proteins with insect-based alternatives at main meals 3 times weekly.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in intake of total daily amount of meat protein at baseline and endline	6 weeks	Data from 4 days dietary registration at each time-point
Change in proportion of meat protein of the total protein intake	6 weeks	Meat intake assessed by 4 day dietary registration, total protein intake assessed by 4 day dietary registration with biochemical validation by spot urine N excretion
Counts of main meals with meat and alternative protein products	6 weeks	Assessed during baseline week and each intervention week, including week of endline assessment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in the sensory evaluation of the intervention foods	6 weeks	Changes in the sensory parameters for liking of the intervention food measured on Likert scale from 1 (extremely bad) to 7 (extremely good), meaning the higher score, the higher liking of the intervention food. Each paired participants are randomized to assess two of the six products at the first intervention week and the last intervention week.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Copenhagen - Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports; 🇩🇰 Frederiksberg, Denmark