Design and Development of a Functional Plant-based Beverage Formulated According to the Main Nutritional Guides for Early Elderly Requirements to Improve Nutritional Status and Immunity for the Early Elderly People to Get Well-healthy Ageing
- Conditions
- Deglutition Disorders
- Interventions
- Other: Sensory test of functional plant-based drink
- Registration Number
- NCT06445309
- Lead Sponsor
- University Rovira i Virgili
- Brief Summary
Populations around the world are aging and this demographic transition will impact almost every aspect of society. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the seriousness of gaps in policies, systems and services. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) plan for 2021-2030, a decade of concerted global action on healthy ageing is urgently needed to ensure that older people can realize their potential in dignity and equality in nutritional requirements. An effective way to address the inherent demographic change, which translates into the health status of older people, is through the maintenance of adequate nutritional status. Public health services require new funding to address this problem, but if we bring new strategies to health policies, by improving nutrition, we could impact the reduction of costs at the level of medical care in the ageing population. In older people, according to the latest guidelines on nutritional requirements in geriatrics from the Spanish Nutrition Foundation (FEN), the British Nutrition Foundation and The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), multinutrient strategies instead of mononutrient strategies, are gaining importance due to relevant scientific evidence based on controlled and randomized clinical trials. Therefore, following the nutritional requirements in healthy ageing, an important aspect is to strengthen immunity in this population.
Consequently, the food industry is booming in the development of new functional alternatives, such as plant-based beverages, which are well positioned in the market and can offer healthy functional beverage options to people of early elderly age (60 to 75 years) as a target population due to the ease with which they are ingested. Therefore, investments in small and medium-sized companies to encourage the incorporation of trained doctoral personnel and add innovation value to this type of product are essential for resilience.
Therefore, the present proposal hypothesizes that, following the nutritional needs for healthy ageing, a multinutrient-optimized beverage as a functional food can improve immunity and reduce inflammation and oxidation in women and men in the elderly population.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Not provided
- Type 2 diabetes
- Chronic alcoholism
- Early community-dwelling seniors
- Failure to comply with study guidelines.
Selection criteria
Volunteers will be recruited through several ways:
- general databases of participants from previous clinical trials of the NFOC-Salut group
- Leaflets with study information, as well as contact information, will be distributed in health centers, civic centers and social centers.
- The information will be disseminated through brochures with contact information among the people who are registered in the IMSERSO to select those who meet the inclusion criteria according to the study population in order to reach the largest number of subjects possible.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Group 1 Sensory test of functional plant-based drink Between 80-100 healthy volunteers between 60-75 years old are needed to carry out this sensory tasting study in untrained tasters. Additionally, the participant will be given a form to assess the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) and a form for the assessment of dysphagia (EAT-10) to assess the participant's sensory perceptions, as well as any oral health problems. oral health that could interfere with the results of the sensory tasting.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sensory test of a functional plant-based drink immediatly after intervention Sensory attributes will be assessed.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Dysphagia immediatly after intervention To test the dysphagia status of the early elderly population. Eating Assessment Tool EAT-10 TEST. Consists in a little questionnaire of 10 items classified punctued betwen 0-4 being 0 any problem and 4 severe problem.
Oral health immediatly after intervention To test the oral health of the early elderly population. Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI TEST). Consists in a little questionnaire of 12 questions items classified by Yes, always; F, frequently; AV, sometimes; RV, rarely; N, never.