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NCT number NCT05045807
Other study ID # 2021-02629-BONDONNO(pilot)
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date October 11, 2021
Est. completion date December 31, 2021

Study information

Verified date March 2022
Source Edith Cowan University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Nitrate is a controversial component of vegetables, meat, and drinking water. The now well-established benefits of nitrate, through the enterosalivary nitrate-nitrite-nitric oxide (NO) pathway, on cardiovascular risk factors and long-term cardiovascular disease risk are tarnished by a continuing concern about a link between nitrate ingestion and cancer. This can result in misguided advice to avoid consumption of high-nitrate leafy green vegetables by both the media and the scientific literature. A recent media headline stated, "Cancer alert over rocket: trendy salad leaves exceed safe levels of carcinogenic nitrates in one in every ten samples". One scientific review stated, "the presence of nitrate in vegetables, as in water and generally in other foods, is a serious threat to man's health". Controversy in the literature, and gaps in the knowledge are leading to confusing messages around vegetables that may play a critical role in cardiovascular health. The major dietary sources of nitrate are vegetables, meat, and drinking water. Source of nitrate could be a crucial factor determining whether the consumption of nitrate is linked with beneficial (such as improving cardiovascular health) versus harmful (N-nitrosamine formation) effects. For example, unlike meat and water-derived nitrate, vegetables contain high levels of vitamin C and/or polyphenols that may inhibit the production of N-nitrosamines. So far, no study has investigated the formation of N-nitrosamines after consumption of these different sources in humans. A pilot study will be conducted to determine that endogenous N-nitrosamine formation is observed after ingestion of meat with added nitrate and nitrite and that consumption of vegetables with the meat containing added nitrate and nitrite will inhibit the production of N-nitrosamines.


Description:

Study design: A crossover study design will be used with a 1-week washout period. Each participant will complete the scheduled study visits for one of the dietary interventions which will be assigned in random order. Following the washout, the participants will then complete the scheduled study visits for the remaining intervention. Participants will be provided with a low nitrate and N-nitrosamine meal on the preceding evening of each study visit. These meals will be consistent across all study visits. Participants will be asked to refrain from drinking coffee and any alcoholic beverage and doing any exercise 24 hours prior to the study visit. Dietary interventions: Meat with added nitrate: Prosciutto/pancetta/Parma ham/salami (all derived from pork) prepared by a commercial butcher with sodium nitrate as an additive. Meat with added nitrate plus vegetables: The same intervention described above consumed together with mixed vegetables. Assessments: At each clinic visit, baseline samples of urine will be collected for measurement of N-nitrosamines, nitrate, and nitrite. After the intervention, all urine within the first 240 minutes and then subsequent 20-hour period will be collected for measurement of N-nitrosamines, nitrate, and nitrite.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 6
Est. completion date December 31, 2021
Est. primary completion date December 31, 2021
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 55 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Six healthy, ambulant, community-dwelling men and women aged between 18 to 55 years old and with no history of major chronic disease will be recruited from the Perth general population. Exclusion Criteria: Individuals volunteering to participate in the study will be excluded according to the following criteria: - current or recent (<12 months) smoking - body mass index (BMI) <18 or > 35 kg/m2 - systolic blood pressure > 160 mmHg - diastolic blood pressure > 100 mmHg - any major illness such as cancer, psychiatric illness, diagnosed diabetes - use of any of the following medications: statins, antihypertensives, nitric oxide donors, antithrombotic medication, anti-coagulant medication, anti-arrhythmic drugs, beta-blockers, regular aspirin use, regular proton pump inhibitor use - alcohol consumption > 30g/day - who are pregnant, lactating, or wishing to become pregnant during the study - use of antibiotics within the previous 12 weeks of the study - regular use of mouthwash and not willing to cease mouthwash use for the duration of the study - participation on other research studies - major gastrointestinal tract condition e.g. Crohns disease and inflammatory bowel disease - and inability or unwillingness to follow the study protocol.

Study Design


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Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
Meat with added nitrate
Prosciutto/pancetta/Parma ham/salami (all derived from pork) prepared by a commercial butcher with the sodium nitrate and nitrite as an additive.
Meat with added nitrate plus vegetables
The same intervention as of intervention "meat with added nitrate" consumed together with mixed vegetables.

Locations

Country Name City State
Australia Royal Perth Hospital Research Foundation Perth Western Australia

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Edith Cowan University Flinders University, The University of Western Australia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Australia, 

References & Publications (18)

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Bartsch H, Ohshima H, Pignatelli B. Inhibitors of endogenous nitrosation. Mechanisms and implications in human cancer prevention. Mutat Res. 1988 Dec;202(2):307-24. Review. — View Citation

Blekkenhorst LC, Bondonno NP, Liu AH, Ward NC, Prince RL, Lewis JR, Devine A, Croft KD, Hodgson JM, Bondonno CP. Nitrate, the oral microbiome, and cardiovascular health: a systematic literature review of human and animal studies. Am J Clin Nutr. 2018 Apr — View Citation

Blekkenhorst LC, Prince RL, Ward NC, Croft KD, Lewis JR, Devine A, Shinde S, Woodman RJ, Hodgson JM, Bondonno CP. Development of a reference database for assessing dietary nitrate in vegetables. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2017 Aug;61(8). doi: 10.1002/mnfr.2016009 — View Citation

Bondonno CP, Blekkenhorst LC, Liu AH, Bondonno NP, Ward NC, Croft KD, Hodgson JM. Vegetable-derived bioactive nitrate and cardiovascular health. Mol Aspects Med. 2018 Jun;61:83-91. doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2017.08.001. Epub 2017 Sep 7. Review. — View Citation

Bondonno CP, Croft KD, Puddey IB, Considine MJ, Yang X, Ward NC, Hodgson JM. Nitrate causes a dose-dependent augmentation of nitric oxide status in healthy women. Food Funct. 2012 May;3(5):522-7. doi: 10.1039/c2fo10206d. Epub 2012 Feb 16. — View Citation

Bondonno CP, Downey LA, Croft KD, Scholey A, Stough C, Yang X, Considine MJ, Ward NC, Puddey IB, Swinny E, Mubarak A, Hodgson JM. The acute effect of flavonoid-rich apples and nitrate-rich spinach on cognitive performance and mood in healthy men and women — View Citation

Callahan BJ, McMurdie PJ, Rosen MJ, Han AW, Johnson AJ, Holmes SP. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data. Nat Methods. 2016 Jul;13(7):581-3. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3869. Epub 2016 May 23. — View Citation

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Gangolli SD, van den Brandt PA, Feron VJ, Janzowsky C, Koeman JH, Speijers GJ, Spiegelhalder B, Walker R, Wisnok JS. Nitrate, nitrite and N-nitroso compounds. Eur J Pharmacol. 1994 Nov 1;292(1):1-38. Review. — View Citation

Hord NG, Tang Y, Bryan NS. Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Jul;90(1):1-10. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.27131. Epub 2009 May 13. Review. — View Citation

IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Ingested nitrate and nitrite, and cyanobacterial peptide toxins. IARC Monogr Eval Carcinog Risks Hum. 2010;94:v-vii, 1 — View Citation

Levallois P, Ayotte P, Van Maanen JM, Desrosiers T, Gingras S, Dallinga JW, Vermeer IT, Zee J, Poirier G. Excretion of volatile nitrosamines in a rural population in relation to food and drinking water consumption. Food Chem Toxicol. 2000 Nov;38(11):1013- — View Citation

Lundberg JO, Weitzberg E. NO-synthase independent NO generation in mammals. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2010 May 21;396(1):39-45. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.02.136. Review. — View Citation

Mirvish SS. Role of N-nitroso compounds (NOC) and N-nitrosation in etiology of gastric, esophageal, nasopharyngeal and bladder cancer and contribution to cancer of known exposures to NOC. Cancer Lett. 1995 Jun 29;93(1):17-48. Review. Erratum in: Cancer Le — View Citation

Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Waite DW, Rinke C, Skarshewski A, Chaumeil PA, Hugenholtz P. A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol. 2018 Nov;36(10):996-1004. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4229. Epub — View Citation

Spiegelhalder B, Eisenbrand G, Preussmann R. Influence of dietary nitrate on nitrite content of human saliva: possible relevance to in vivo formation of N-nitroso compounds. Food Cosmet Toxicol. 1976 Dec;14(6):545-8. — View Citation

Tannenbaum SR, Weisman M, Fett D. The effect of nitrate intake on nitrite formation in human saliva. Food Cosmet Toxicol. 1976 Dec;14(6):549-52. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary N-nitrosamines in urine pre each intervention Participants will be provided with a sterilized container and instructions to collect the first urine sample of the day which will be brought into the clinic. Urine aliquots will be frozen at -80°C until analysis. Level of N-nitrosamines will be measured by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS). At each clinic visit, baseline samples of urine will be collected.
Primary N-nitrosamines in urine post each intervention up to 240 min Participants will be provided with a sterilized container and instructions to collect all urine until 4 hours post intervention. Urine aliquots will be frozen at -80°C until analysis. Level of N-nitrosamines will be measured by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS). At each clinic visit, all urine samples within the first 240 min will be collected.
Primary N-nitrosamines in urine post each intervention after 4 hours up till 24 hours Participants will be provided with a sterilized container and instructions to collect all urine from 4 hours until 24 hours post intervention. Urine aliquots will be frozen at -80°C until analysis. Level of N-nitrosamines will be measured by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS). After each clinic visit, all urine from 4-hour to 24-hour period will be collected.
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