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Rationale: Foods that can be eaten at a fast rate - with low mastication effort - lead to shorter orosensory exposure (OSE) per unit of food consumed. This results in a decreased satiation response and higher subsequent food intake. Recent research has shown that participants on a ultra-processed diet have an higher caloric intake and gain body weight compared to those on an unprocessed food diet. In this study the ultra-processed vs. unprocessed meals were classified according to the NOVA classification and matched on caloric content and palatability. The NOVA classification, classifies foods based on the physical, biological and chemical processes that occur after foods are separated from nature, and before they are consumed or used in the preparation of dishes and meals.
However, it remains unclear whether the found increase in food intake of ultra-processed foods is due to industrial processing or because of a difference in eating rate at which the (ultra-)processed foods can be consumed.
Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the independent and additive effects of industrial food processing (according to the NOVA classification) and eating rate on satiation.
Study design: The study has a 2x2 randomized crossover design. All participants receive 4 treatments and are their own control.
Study population: Healthy adults (n=60) between 18-55 years old with a BMI between 18.5-27 kg/m2.
Intervention: Participants will join 4 test days during which they receive 3 main test meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and in-between meals snacks according to one of the 4 diets. The 4 diets of this study are: 1) unprocessed, slow eating rate 2) unprocessed, fast eating rate 3) ultra-processed, slow eating rate 4) ultra- processed, fast eating rate. During eating and before and after eating the weight of the plate will be measured to determine intake. Additionally, participants will be recorded on video to determine eating behaviour (number of bites, chews and oral processing duration). The order in which participants will receive the diets will be randomized. The evening before and during each test day participants will keep a food and exercise diary.
Main study parameters/endpoints: The main study outcomes are food intake during the three main meals and during snack time. Secondary outcomes are, eating behaviour characteristics measured by video (eating rate (g/min and bites/min), number of chews (chews/bite and chews/gram), bite size (gram/bite), oral processing duration (seconds), appetite (hunger, fullness, desire to eat, desire to eat sweet, desire to eat savoury, prospective consumption) and sensory characteristics (liking (taste + smell), desire to eat the meal, expected satiation, sweet, savoury, smoothness, chewiness, thickness) of the meals.
Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness: The risk associated with participation is small and the burden can be considered as moderate. The knowledge obtained may be used to develop products or strategies that enhance healthy choices and eating behaviour and consequently help prevent overweight and obesity. We consider the knowledge obtained and possible implications of this study to outweigh the individual burden.
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OBJECTIVE
The objective of this study is to determine the independent and additive effects of industrial food processing (according to the NOVA classification) and eating rate on satiation
Hypothesis:
We expect that a slow eating rate decreases food intake per main meal and over the course of the day, independent of industrial processing.
STUDY DESIGN
The study has a 2x2 randomized crossover design; all participants receive each treatment and are their own control (within subject effects). See table 1 for an overview of a test day.
The 4 conditions of this study are:
unprocessed slow eating rate
unprocessed fast eating rate
ultra- processed slow eating rate
ultra- processed fast eating rate
Timing Activity/Instruction Throughout study period • No use of drugs. Medication use + illness should be reported Previous day • Keep a food and exercise diary
No intensive exercise (only regular speed walking and biking)
No alcoholic drinks Evening Preceding test day • Same evening meal of own choice between 18.00-19.30
Not allowed to eat or drink (any caloric) after 10 p.m. except for water Morning of test day • Not allowed to eat or drink anything besides a glass of water
Keep food and exercise diary Breakfast • Check adherence to study rules
Check food diary
Give instructions test day
Seated at table
Appetite questionnaire
Sensory questionnaire
Eat meal [one of 4 conditions- randomized] *Record intake
*Record eating behaviour
Reason to end the meal + Appetite questionnaire
Sensory questionnaire Break • Give instructions snacks [no need to eat all, as much or as little as you want, not allowed to eat anything else, allowed to drink water thee and coffee without milk or sugar. Participants will be asked to bring back leftovers.
Lunch • Check adherence to study rules
Check food diary
Give instructions
Seated at table
Appetite questionnaire
Sensory questionnaire
Eat meal [one of 4 conditions- randomized] *Record intake
*Record eating behaviour
Reason to end the meal + Appetite questionnaire
Sensory questionnaire Break • Give instructions snacks [no need to eat all, as much or as little as you want, not allowed to eat anything else, allowed to drink water thee and coffee without milk or sugar. Participants will be asked to bring back leftovers.
Dinner • Check adherence to study rules • Check food diary • Give instructions • Seated at table • Appetite questionnaire
• Sensory questionnaire
• Eat meal [one of 4 conditions- randomized]
*Record intake
Record eating behaviour
Table 1. Study (pre-) day overview. Participants join four test days during which they eat ad libitum of 3 main test meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) in between meals they receive snacks.
STUDY POPULATION
3.1 Population (base)
Participants will be recruited from Wageningen and surroundings. Healthy (self-report), normal to slightly overweight (18.5-30 kg/m2) men and women between 18-55 years old will be included. Participants have to be able to understand and speak English (self-report), because of the sensory questionnaire and appetite questionnaire which will be in English and have difficult direct translations to Dutch. As 90% of the people that show interest in the study are university students this should not be a problem (i.e. limiting the number of people that can be included in the study). The BMI range is based on the average BMI in the Netherlands, which is 25 kg/m2 but around 50% of the Dutch population is overweight. To be able to include sufficient subjects we therefore choose to widen the BMI range and include people up to a BMI of 30 kg/m2 (20). Due to the within subject design this will not influence the outcome of the study, but results will be more generalizable to people with an average weight.
3.2 Inclusion criteria
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all of the following inclusion criteria:
3.3 Exclusion criteria
A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
3.4 Screening during Information meeting
People interested in participating in the study can send an email to the investigator indicating that they would like to join the study. After that, participants will receive an invitation for the information meeting and a pdf of the information brochure by email. During the information meeting prospective participants receive information about the procedure, design and measurements of the study through an oral presentation. Participants will not be informed about the study's purpose. Participants will be told that we are interested in eating behaviour differences between cultures. It will not be explained specifically that the main interest is the amount eaten during the ad libitum test meals as this may influence the results. Participants will be informed about the specific parameters of interest when the study is finished by email. After receiving the information participants are free to sign their informed consent.
After signing informed consent, participants will be asked to fill in the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ: 33 questions) together with other in-exclusion criteria (health) questions.
After filling in the questionnaires, participants will be asked to rate liking and familiarity of the test food meals based on pictures and taste and rate liking of the snacks on a nine point hedonic and visual analogue scale (VAS). Based on the in- and exclusion criteria participants are invited for the test days.
The main outcome of interest is satiation measured through ad libitum intake of test meals.
Based on our previous studies that had the same outcome we need to include 60 participants to be able to find a 10% difference between study treatments.
5.1 measurements study
During test meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) participants eat ad libitum of a test meal according to one of the four conditions ; unprocessed slow eating rate, unprocessed fast eating rate, ultra-processed slow eating rate, ultra-processed fast eating rate. During the meal intake will be measured using a weighing scale hidden in a tray and video recordings will be made to determine eating behavior. Before and after the test meals participants will be asked to rate sensory and appetite questions.
General Health and well-being questionnaire The general health and well-being questionnaire of the human nutrition department will be used to ask subjects about their health and well-being (since their last session) at the start of the test day.
Appetite, sensory and well-being variables
Participant will answer an appetite questionnaire. They will rate hunger, fullness, thirst, desire to eat, desire to eat sweet/savoury, and general prospective consumption on a 100-mm visual analogue scale (VAS) ranging from 'not at all' to 'extremely' with anchors at the beginning and end of the line.
Appetite Factors:
Hunger Fullness Desire to eat Desire to eat sweet Desire to eat savoury Prospective consumption
In addition, participants will rate first the sensory/hedonic attributes of the meal on a 100-mm VAS scale ranging from 'not at all' to 'extremely' with anchors at the beginning and end of the line.
Sensory/hedonic characteristics:
Asked only before the meal:
Expected satiation Desire to eat the meal (visually)
Asked before and after the meal:
Liking smell Liking taste/flavour Desire to eat the meal (based on tasting)
Besides these questions we will also let participants indicate their reason to stop eating, If their reason is not indicated they have to choose the most appropriate one:
In addition we will ask participants to rate wellbeing parameters.
Video recordings
During the ad libitum eating meals participants will be video recorded. A digital camera will be positioned in front of the subject (face-on) where the lower frame will be in line with the shoulders, the upper frame wil be above the top of the cranium and the sides at shoulder width. Participants will be instructed to look straight into the webcam and not to make excessive head movements. Data will be analysed manually with use of Observer Noldus. Recordings will be analysed in a random order. Beforehand defined indicators are: number of bites, total eating duration, eating duration per bite, number of masticatory cycles per bite. Application of this technique to chewing of gel-like model foods has shown that it is possible to separate subjects based on their chewing behaviour (28-31). Permission to record the participant and save and use the video for this study's purpose will be asked on the informed consent form.
5.1 NOVA classification of unprocessed, processed (culinary), processed and ultra-processed foods.
Group 1 Unprocessed Group 2 Processed (culinary) Group 3 Processed Group 4 Ultra-processed Fruit Oils Canned vegetables Soft drinks Leaves Butter Bottled vegetables Packed snacks Stems Lard Canned legumes Candies/ chocolate Seeds Sugar Bottled legumes Mass produced breads Roots Salt Fruit in syrup Cookies Meat Tinned fish in oil Pastries Eggs Bacon Cakes Milk Ham Margarine Fungi Pastrami Sweetened breakfast cereals Algea Smoked fish Fruit yoghurt water Simple cheeses Energy drinks Freshly baked bread Pre-prepared meat Cheese Pasta/noodles Pizza Nugget Burgers Hot dogs Sausages Instant soups Dessert
6.1 Replacement of individual subjects after withdrawal A total of 60 participants will be included and we will aim to have 5 participants on the reserve list to participate if participants drop-out during the first week of the study.
Incentives Participants do not receive reimbursement for the information meeting as we expect not to be able to include many of the participants due to the extensive in- and exclusion criteria. For completing the entire study (four test sessions) participants receive €100, - euro. Participants receive €20, - reimbursement per session if they drop out of the study and participants receive an additional €20, - when completing the entire study. The reimbursement is calculated (+/- 10%) based on guidelines of the Human Nutrition department of Wageningen University.
Handling and storage of data and documents
All the gathered data will be handled confidential through coding, except for the video's where the participant will be recognizable. All subjects will receive a unique code, and only the project leader and investigators will have the key. Confidentially will be clearly communicated to all participants .The personal data will be stored in a digital database on an intern network which is protected by a personal password. The password is only known by the investigators. The key to the personal information will be kept until 5 years after the results of the study are published and is only known by the project leader and coordinating researcher. All other data will be kept for 15 years after the results of the studie are published. No names of the participants will be used in the publication of this study.
The video recordings will be stored on the W: drive of the department, only the researchers directly involved in the study are given access to this drive when login on their account including password. Videos will be labelled with a unique code, not traceable to the participant, however to obtain mastication parameters it is necessary to have recordings of the entire head of the participant; therefore video's will not be anonymous. The videos will be analysed by the project leader, principle investigator and possible research assistant and or BSc/MSc thesis/internship students but will be handled confidentially. All researchers and assistant involved in the study will sign a confidentiality form. The videos will be kept for 5 years after the results of the study are published. Permission of the subjects will be asked to be able to do so, at the informed consent form. Videos will solely be used for the analysis as described in this protocol. Videos will not be used for presentation purposes only in case the participant gives verbally and in written permission to do so.
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Between 18-55 years old at the day of inclusion
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60 participants in 2 patient groups
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Dieuwerke P Bolhuis, PhD; Marlou Lasschuijt, MSc
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