Downshifting Sweet Preference and Added Sugar Intake During Snacking
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Development, Child
- Sponsor
- Temple University
- Enrollment
- 172
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Change is being assessed in dietary intake of energy from added sugar
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The research study is designed is to determine whether children's acceptance of low sugar snacks, most preferred level of sweet and salty taste, and dietary intake of added sugars changes after repeated exposure to snacks lower in sweetness when compared to the control group.
Detailed Description
This is a longitudinal, randomized, within- and between- subject study of children and their mothers to determine whether children's repeated exposure to snacks lower in sweetness and mothers' educational lessons about dental health and nutrition (intervention group) affects children's acceptance of low sugar snacks, most preferred level of sweet and salty taste, and dietary intake of added sugars when compared to the control group.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •English speaking mother 18 years or older
- •Mother has primary responsibility for the eligible child's care
- •Mother has primary responsibility for feeding the eligible child
- •Mother is responsible for purchasing food for the family
- •Mother must be willing to refrain from eating food and beverages high in added sugars in the eligible child's presence for the duration of the study
Exclusion Criteria
- •Child is in full-day daycare or school
- •Child is currently on a special diet (e.g. weight management programs)
- •Child has severe food allergies (e.g. gluten, peanuts)
- •Child has medical conditions know to affect growth or eating (e.g. diabetes, cystic fibrosis)
- •Mother is a current smoker
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change is being assessed in dietary intake of energy from added sugar
Time Frame: From timepoint 0 (baseline Temple visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay)
Dietary intake (kcal/d) will be determined from Automated Self-Administered Recall System (ASA24) completed by mothers for her child and herself.
Change is being assessed in the children's liking of snacks low in sweetness
Time Frame: From timepoint 0 (baseline Temple visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay)
Children's grouping of the taste of novel snacks as liked, ok, or disliked as determined by lab-based measurements of liking using a picture-based 3-point hedonic scale depicting "yummy", "yucky", and "just-okay" responses; following the grouping of snacks into these categories, snacks will be ranked for most liked to most disliked \[range: 4-6\].
Change is being assessed in the children's intake of snacks low in sweetness
Time Frame: From timepoint 0 (baseline Temple visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month= end of intervention) and T5 (5 month which is 1 month, post-intervention delay)
Children's intake of novel snacks in grams using weighed intake methods and behavioral parameters of intake from digital recordings; higher intake and consummatory responses indicate greater acceptance.
Secondary Outcomes
- Monitoring of individual differences in children's palatable eating motivation(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of individual differences in mothers' palatable eating motivation(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay))
- Change is being assessed in levels of hair biomarker for added sugar intake(From timepoint 0 (baseline Temple visit at start of intervention) to T4 (4 month visit=end of intervention))
- Change is being assessed in liking-based dietary intake survey(From timepoint 0 (baseline Temple visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of individual differences in parenting feeding styles(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of weight(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month= end of intervention) and T5 (5 month which is 1 month, post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of individual differences in children's appetitive drive(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month, end of intervention) and T5 (5 month, which is 1 month post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of height(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month= end of intervention) and T5 (5 month which is 1 month, post-intervention delay))
- Monitoring of body mass index(From timepoint 0 (baseline visit at start of intervention) to T1 (1 month), T2 (2 month), T3 (3 month), T4 (4 month= end of intervention) and T5 (5 month which is 1 month, post-intervention delay))