Dairy products have the potential to be healthy snack foods for children and are provided in a variety of food matrices. For instance, milk represents a fluid product, yogurt can be classified as a semi-solid food, and finally, cheese is the example of solid food. This experiment is aimed to examine the effect of dairy products with different food matrices on satiety and food intake in children. Dairy products will be compared with other non-dairy snacks popular among children including cookies and potato chips.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Commercially available potato chips, 180 kcal
Commercially available Greek yogurt, 180 kcal
Commercially available cookies, 180 kcal
Commercially available cheese, 180 kcal
Commercially available milk, 180 kcal
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Food intake (grams and kcal) measured with a test meal
The amount of energy (kcal) consumed ad libitum with the test meal (pizza lunch) two hours later.
Time frame: 120 min
Subjective appetite measured with Visual Analogue Scales
The subjective assessment of appetite parameters including a desire to eat, fullness, hunger and a prospective food consumption measured with 100 mm Visual Analogue Scales with two opposite statements at each end (e.g., for the hunger scale, 0 mm means not hungry at all, and 100 mm means very hungry).
Time frame: 0-120 min
Cortisol
The concentration of salivary cortisol
Time frame: 0-120 min
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