Glycemic Index of Instant Noodle With and Without Soup: Does Serving Method Have an Effect?

Nutrifood Research Center, Jakarta, Indonesia

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Glucose reference; Other: Instant noodle with soup; Other: Instant noodle without soup

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02625350

GI-noodle

Details and patient eligibility

About

Glycemic index is commonly used as a method to determine the effect of a food to blood glucose. Despite its carbohydrate and fat content, instant noodle is very popular in Asia, including Indonesia. Based on the serving method, there are instant noodle without and with soup. Studies have shown that water content of a meal may influence glycemic response of the meal and thus have an effect on the result of GI measurement. However none specifically studied instant noodles nor the additional water content as soup (not incorporated in the food matrix). Therefore, this study aims to determine whether the serving method of instant noodle (with and without soup) may influence the glycemic response and glycemic index value of the meal.

Full description

Glycemic index methods are performed according to Food and Agricultural Organization/WHO recommendations.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 20-40 years
• Fasting blood glucose 70-99 mg/dL
• Indonesians

Exclusion criteria

• Having diabetes
• Smoking
• If women, pregnant or lactating
• Being allergic to food used in this study
• Having gastrointestinal disturbance
• In regular medication
• Refusal to sign the consent form

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 3 patient groups

Instant noodle without soup

Experimental group

Description:

Instant noodle with 50 gram available carbohydrate per serving; cooked with 500 ml of water for 6 minutes and drained

Treatment:

Other: Instant noodle without soup

Instant noodle with soup

Experimental group

Description:

Instant noodle with 50 gram available carbohydrate per serving; cooked with 500 ml of water for 6 minutes, drained, and given additional 250 ml of water as soup

Treatment:

Other: Instant noodle with soup

Glucose reference

Experimental group

Description:

250 ml glucose solution with 50 gram available carbohydrate per serving, used as reference

Treatment:

Other: Glucose reference