Which is a Better Breakfast? Egg or Cereal?

Satiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

"Which is a Better Breakfast? Egg or Cereal?"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01413217
• Other study ID #: PBRC 10010
• Status: Completed
• Start date: July 2010
• Est. completion date: September 2011

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Which is a better breakfast? Egg or cereal?

Description:

Which breakfast has the most beneficial effect on blood glucose and insulin, blood hormones and blood pressure, egg or cereal breakfast? Over a seven week period the participant will take part in eating breakfast of either egg breakfast or cereal breakfast which will be monitored. Blood samples will be taken before participants eat and different times throughout until after Lunch on day 1 and day 7. Questionnaires will be given to determine satiety (feeling of fullness) and hunger before and after breakfast and lunch. After a two week period participants will return for another week of the same procedure and tests that was followed from Day 1 though day 7 listed. However, this time participants will be eating the second of the two breakfasts whichever one they did not have for the first test period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: September 2011
• Est. primary completion date: September 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-60 years of age

• not lost more than 5% of body wight in the past 3 months, or not trying to actively lose weight at the moment.

• are not suffering from disease such as major heart conditions, cancer, type 1 diabetes, eating disorders, very high cholesterol or triglycerides levels, or any serious illness that requires intensive and long term medical treatment.

are not allergic to or sensitive to eggs, soy or wheat, and do not dislike these foods.

• have a BMI of equal to or >30 to equal to or <60

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hunger
• Satiety

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Pennington Biomedical Research Center	Baton Rouge	Louisiana

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Pennington Biomedical Research Center	American Egg Board

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Caloric intake for Lunch after you have received an Egg or Cereal Breakfast and Levels of glucose, insulin, and lipids are measured.	Before breakfast satiety following an egg breakfast compared to the other breakfast determines the impact of egg breakfast on their Lunch intake. Blood samples will be taken to test the levels of glucose, insulin, and lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides.	7 weeks
Secondary	Satiety or hunger	Questionnaires to determine satiety and/or hunger before and after breakfast and lunch will be given.	7 weeks