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Dissecting the Roles of High-quality Diets and Ultra Processed Foods on Cardiometabolic Health
Sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast
Summary
Controversy remains around the role of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and health outcomes. A key question that remains to be answered is: when diet quality is the same, does food processing itself have any independent health effects? The current application aims to isolate the health effects of food processing from those of diet quality through the conduct of a dietary intervention study.
Official title: Ultra-processed Foods, Diet Quality, and Cardiometabolic Health
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
330
Start Date
2025-10-01
Completion Date
2029-03-01
Last Updated
2025-01-03
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
High UPF, high hPDI diet
High ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and healthy plant based diet
Low UPF, high hPDI diet
Low ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and high healthy plant-based diet
Locations (2)
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom