Gut Microbiome and Blood Markers After Habitual Herbal Tea Consumption (SRTT)

NCT05862532 EARLY_PHASE1 UNKNOWN

TeTrimTeas intends is to establish a long-term cooperative with local growers and producers who will become partners in the business, with profit share to local growers and producers. The overall aim of the company is to produce quality, science-based botanical/herbal teas to improve health and wellbeing, growing as many of the ingredients locally and organically, to reduce food-to-fork miles within the decarbonisation and sustainability agendas in Wales. TeTrimTeas have created herbal green tea blends, improving on existing Chinese formulation, and would like to test it as 'health tea'. The recruited cohort will be randomised into one of three intervention teas (green tea control, senna herbal mix and rhubarb root herbal mix). They would like to explore if consumption of the teas for 21 days has an impact on digestion and potentially help control weight gain. Aberystwyth University will use high resolution metabolomics to investigate the chemical composition of capillary blood samples, in particular the short chain fatty acids. They will also assess lipid composition in capillary bloods and the microbiome of stools. Diet data, stool consistency and anthropometric measurements will be collected pre and post intervention. Results will advance product development and data would be used in grant applications into the health benefits of the herbal teas.

Details

Lead sponsor	Aberystwyth University
Phase	EARLY_PHASE1
Status	UNKNOWN
Enrolment	55
Start date	Thu Nov 17 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Completion	Wed May 31 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Conditions

• Obesity
• Well-being

Interventions

• TeTrimTeas welsh Herbal tea with rhubarb root
• TeTrimTeas welsh Herbal tea with senna
• TeTrimTeas welsh Herbal tea with green tea

Countries

United Kingdom