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NCT06771804: InsectGEP
Cricket Flour Metabolism in Humans
NA trial testing Cricket Protein in Nutrition, Healthy in 10 participants. Completed in 8 January 2025.
1 August 2023
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of Surrey |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | crossover |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | basic science |
| Enrollment | 10 |
| Start date | 1 October 2022 |
| Primary completion | 1 August 2023 |
| Estimated completion | 8 January 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United Kingdom |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Cricket Protein
Conditions studied
- Nutrition, Healthy — all drugs for Nutrition, Healthy →
Sponsor
University of Surrey
Who can join
Adults 18 to 75, any sex, with Nutrition, Healthy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
With increasing demands on the environment people are looking in different ways to decrease their carbon footprint. Protein is an important part of human diets a it provides building blocks for growth and helps to ensure people stay health. Animal protein is one of the primary sources of of protein from our diets but it is also known that farming cattle for example places a lot of pressure on the environment. As a result of this new protein sources are being looked at that can take the place of animal protein. Insects have been consumed on many civilisations for a long time and they are slowly making their way into the western diets. At this time the investigators however do not know very much about how well insect protein compares to animal protein as a nutritious food source. This research project is therefore one of the first to compare some of the nutritional properties between animal and insect proteins. In brief, this study involves eating a sweet breakfast muffin made of either whey (animal) protein powder or cricket flour (very finely ground whole adult crickets) and then breathing into test tubes at various time points for a few hours as well as collecting some small amounts of blood using a finger stick to measure blood glucose and fats.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06771804 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Surrey
- Last refreshed: 16 January 2025
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