Clinical trials: Food Choices
Food Labelling, Eating Behaviour
Food Menu Labelling Effects on Individuals With Eating Disorders and Other Mental Health Conditions.
Calorie labelling in out-of-home (OOH) settings was introduced by the government in England as part of a wider strategy to 'tackle obesity' (DHSC, 2020).
- Conditions
- Food Labelling, Eating Behaviour, Mental Health, Eating Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT07809295
- Testing
- Control condition, Calorie labelling, Nutri-Score labelling
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 900 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Liverpool
Food Selection, Attitude
Do Sustainability Labels Lead to More Sustainable and Healthier Food Choices?
This study tests the effect of two climate change menu labels, one indicating 'low climate impact' and the other indicating 'high climate impact' on ordering choices and perceptions of healthfulness of food ordered in an online…
- Trial name
- Climate Labels (NCT05482204)
- Testing
- Low Climate Impact label, High Climate Impact label
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5,055 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Diet, Healthy
Understanding Food Choices in Bahrain Using Bahrain e-Mart
Using a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) and an intercept survey, the investigators aim to evaluate the effects of the Multiple-Traffic Light (MTL) front-of-pack (FOP) food labels in Bahrain, on diet quality of grocery…
- Trial name
- NCT06440421
- Testing
- MTL Labels
- Where
- Bahrain
- Volunteers
- 395 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Healthy
Effect of Nutrition Labeling on Fast Food Choices
A study examining menu choices made at fast food restaurants.
- Trial name
- NCT00127660
- Testing
- Menu: calories=yes, value pricing=no, Menu: calories=yes, value pricing = yes, Menu: calories=no, value pricing = no
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 605 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Food Preferences, Obesity
Vending Labeling Sales and Intercepts Study
The aim of this study is to compare the impact of 4 different types of front of package (FOP) food and beverage messages: 1) green labels on healthy foods, 2) red/yellow/green labels on less healthy/moderately healthy/healthy…
- Conditions
- Food Preferences, Obesity, Weight Gain
- Trial name
- NCT06260176
- Testing
- exposure to healthy labels only, exposure to healthiness information, exposure to physical activity equivalents
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,065 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Sensory Imagination
Evaluation of the Effect of Sensory Imagination on Food Portion Size in School-aged Children
The objective of this intervention is to evaluate the effect of sensory imagination (i.e., imagining the sensory properties of an object) on the choice of food portion size in school-aged children.
- Trial name
- NCT03350932
- Testing
- Sensory imagination about foods
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Diet, Healthy, Food Selection
Environmental Labelling in a Virtual Supermarket
A 2-arm randomised control trial (with and without labels) will be conducted to test the effects of an environmental label on food choices in a virtual supermarket.
- Trial name
- NCT04909372
- Testing
- Labelling
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Food Selection
A Trial of Traffic Light Labeling With Behavioral Nudges and a Healthy Recipe Database to Increase Selection of Healthier Foods in Client-choice Food Pantries
This study is a pilot evaluation of the Healthy Pantry Program, a new behavioral economics-based training that allows pantry staff to learn how to implement nudges integrating traffic-light nutrition labeling and a healthy recipe…
- Trial name
- NCT04243252
- Testing
- Healthy Pantry Program, Waitlist Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Obesity
Executive Function Training in Childhood Obesity: Food Choice, Quality of Life and Brain Connectivity
This study evaluates if executive function training in obese children can improve food-related choices and produce cognitive and neuroimaging changes, but also improve psychological and physical status and quality of life…
- Trial name
- TOuCH (NCT03615274)
- Testing
- Executive function training, Psychoeducation
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 46 people
- Sponsor
- University of Barcelona
Food Security, Nutritive Value
Voices for Food: Food Policy Councils, Food Security and Healthy Food Choices
This study evaluates the effectiveness of coaching and Voices for Food materials on establishing Food Policy Councils (FPCs) and using guided client choice in rural food pantries to improve food security and diet quality among…
- Trial name
- VFF (NCT03566095)
- Testing
- Coaching and Voices for Food Kit, Voices for Food Kit
- Volunteers
- 1,735 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- South Dakota State University
Diet, Food Choice, Taste
Salivary Interactions With Chemosensations
A counterbalanced, crossover design will be used to evaluate whether exposure to flavors vs. a control over time alters the perception of the flavor by changing an individual's salivary protein profile.
- Trial name
- NCT03883880
- Testing
- Epigallocatechin gallate, Epigallocatechin gallate control, Linoleic acid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Food Selection
Climate Labels for Restaurant Menus Pilot
The aim of this study is to compare responses to 6 different types of labels for restaurant menus: 1) a QR code on all items (control); 2) High Climate Impact label; 3) High Climate Impact Warning label; 4) Climate Grade label…
- Trial name
- NCT06651060
- Testing
- Menu label
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16,181 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Obesity, Overweight
Behavioral Economics and Food Choice
This is the second in a series of pilot interventions we are conducting to assess how principles from behavioral economics can be applied to improve consumers' food choices.
- Trial name
- NCT01061905
- Testing
- Calorie information, Exercise Equivalent only, Calorie & Exercise equivalent information
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Climate Change, Food Preferences
Reshaping Food Choice at University of Michigan
Nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions originate from agriculture. Consumer demand for food, especially carbon-intensive red meats, largely underlies these emissions.
- Trial name
- NCT05131529
- Testing
- Taste-focused labels, Carbon impact labels, Changing default menu options
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,003 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Sustainable Food Consumption
Consumers' Emotional Reaction to Sustainability Cue
This will be a randomized control trial (RCT) to examine whether the three priming interventions (health priming, environmental sustainability priming, and co-benefits priming) work to change consumers' sustainable food choice…
- Trial name
- NCT04935203
- Testing
- Priming intervention
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong