High Resistant Starch (RS) Cookies and Appetite Control

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: High RS cookies; Dietary Supplement: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02323828

24238/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the effect of ingestion of high RS-cookies prepared from high amylose corn starch on food intake and appetite control of a cohort of healthy students. Cookies were prepared with increasing RS content and were fed to 18 healthy students in a blind trial versus a placebo.

Parameters of interest were: short and long time intake (ad libitum test meal and 12 h diet diaries, respectively).

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• self-reported healthy
• not suffering disorders of lipid metabolism and eating disorders

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant or breast-feeding
• consuming an energy-restricted diet
• vegan or vegetarians

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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18 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Investigational product

Experimental group

Description:

The investigational products are RS starch cookies (40 g resistant starch) from high amylose maize starch. Nine young healthy volunteers (males and females) consumed RS rich cookies (40 g RS) in two separate occasions.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: High RS cookies

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The placebo products are common wheat-maize cookies (2 g RS). Nine young healthy volunteers (males and females) consumed placebo in two separate occasions.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Placebo