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The Healthy Cookie Study: Understanding How Healthy Cookies Affect Fat in the Blood,

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Healthy Adults
Interventions
Other: High Oleic Acid Healthy Cookies
Other: High Linoleic Acid Healthy Cookies
Registration Number
NCT02841618
Lead Sponsor
Ohio State University
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand how consuming healthy cookies every day for two weeks will affect different types of fat in the blood. Specifically, the overall goal of this study is to find out if the healthy cookies can increase a polyunsaturated fat called linoleic acid in plasma, red blood cells and white blood cells.

Detailed Description

Overall, linoleic acid has many health benefits including altering body composition and energy metabolism, possibly through its impact on cardiolipin. It is therefore imperative to develop foods products that allow for Americans to easily increase their intake of linoleic acid. It's also important to understand the mechanism in which linoleic acid exerts these positive health effects, particularly in states of muscle mass and quality loss associated with mitochondria dysfunction.

The investigators plan to test the central hypothesis and accomplish the overall objective of this research by pursuing the following three specific aims

Aim 1: To determine the extent to which cookies, made with grapeseed oil , increase linoleic acid in plasma, red blood cells (RBCs), and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) fraction of blood after two weeks consumption

Aim 2: To determine the extent to which cookies, made with grapeseed oil, increase cardiolipin and linoleic acid content of cardiolipin in PBMCs after two weeks of consumption

Aim 3: To determine and compare the acceptability of consuming cookies made with grapeseed oil or high oleic safflower oil every day for two weeks

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
123
Inclusion Criteria
  • Nonsmokers
Exclusion Criteria
  • Current or previous diagnosis of diabetes, heart (including stroke or heart attack), kidney, liver or circulatory diseases and/or current treatment for cancer.
  • Gastrointestinal diseases or disorders (including pancreatic) or gastric bypass surgery
  • Food Allergy or Intolerance & Bee allergy
  • Any dietary restriction where consumption of these healthy cookies or any ingredient would be contraindicated
  • Use of medications where consuming the healthy cookies would be contraindicated
  • Use of supplements/oils high in linoleic acid in the past 4 weeks prior to enrolling
  • Pregnancy

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
High Oleic Acid Healthy CookiesHigh Oleic Acid Healthy CookiesHigh Oleic Acid Healthy Cookies (10g safflower oil) 1 per day for 2 weeks Matched for Phase 2: N=42 adults
High Linoleic Acid Healthy CookiesHigh Linoleic Acid Healthy CookiesHigh Linoleic Acid Healthy Cookies (10g grapeseed oil) 1 per day for 2 weeks Phase 1: N=39 adults single arm Phase 2: N=42 adults
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Changes in fasting fatty acid levelsBaseline through Week 02

Linoleic acid content of fasting blood samples

Changes in cardiolipinBaseline through Week 02

Cardiolipin content in fasting blood samples

Acceptability of CookiesBaseline through Week 02

9-point sensory evaluation of healthy cookies

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Correlation of linoleic acid in the blood with body strengthBaseline through Week 02

grip strength measurement

Correlation of linoleic acid in the blood with body movementBaseline through Week 02

gait speed measurement

Correlation of linoleic acid in blood with physical activityBaseline through Week 02

Physical Activity questionnaire

Correlation of linoleic acid in blood with body sizeBaseline through Week 02

Body Mass Index measurement

Correlation of linoleic acid in blood with body shapeBaseline through Week 02

Abdominal thickness measurement

Correlation of linoleic acid in blood with sleepBaseline through Week 02

Sleeping questionnaire

Correlation of fatty acids in blood with dietBaseline through Week 02

omega-3 fat intake questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Ohio State University Human Nutrition Laboratory

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Columbus, Ohio, United States

The Ohio State University Human Nutrition Laboratory
🇺🇸Columbus, Ohio, United States
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