Impact of Coffeeberry Extract on Skill Performance During Simulated Match Play in Academy Football Players

PepsiCo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coffeeberry Effects; Soccer Performance; Skill Performance

Treatments: Other: Beverage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT05547204

PEP-2114

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study of soccer skill performance has three objectives:

1. Compare effects of coffeeberry (300mg) and placebo ingestion on dribbling speed and precision, passing speed and accuracy, and sprint speed during a full simulated soccer match.
2. Compare effects of coffeeberry (300mg) and placebo ingestion on subjective measures (mental / physical energy and activation-deactivation (feelings or mood) during a full simulated soccer match.
3. Compare effects of coffeeberry (300mg) and placebo ingestion on chlorogenic acid (CGA) and caffeine metabolites in the blood 1-hour post ingestion, and other blood metabolites (glucose/lactate) throughout the simulated soccer match.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 28 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Provide valid informed consent prior to any study procedure
• Male soccer players age 16 to 28 years.
• >= 5-year soccer playing experience
• >= 1-year regularly soccer training
• Free of injuries
• Willing to avoid alcohol in the 48-h period prior to all visits
• Willing to avoid caffeinated products and apples, berries/cherries for 24-h prior to all visits
• Willing to record food intake over the 48-h period prior to the first trial and replicate for second trial
• Willing to abstain from strenuous physical activity for 24-h before all visits

Exclusion criteria

• Smoking
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Diabetes or other metabolic disease • Hypertension (>140/>90 mm Hg)
• Presence of injuries
• Major illnesses or surgery in prior 90 days
• Participation in another clinical trial in the past month

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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15 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Coffeeberry beverage

Experimental group

Description:

300 ml drink containing 300 mg coffeeberry extract

Treatment:

Other: Beverage

Color and flavor matched beverage

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

300 ml drink (0 mg coffeeberry extract, 0 mg caffeine)

Treatment:

Other: Beverage