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Plants Optimizing Development Study (PODS)

Plants Optimizing Development Study

Who can join

Ages 8 to 11 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Child assent and parent/guardian consent
* Free of any food allergy
* 8-11 years of age
* Tanner scale score of ≤ 2
* 20/20 or corrected vision
* No antibiotic usage in the past 3 months
* ≤1 serving/d of soy food habitual consumption

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-assent or consent by child assent and/or parent/guardian
* Presence of any food allergy
* Younger than 8 years or older than 11 years
* Presence of specific neurological and genetic disorders (i.e., Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Down syndrome)
* Presence of endocrine, metabolic, and gastrointestinal disease e.g., hypertension, diabetes, celiac disease
* Tanner scale score of \> 2
* Not 20/20 or uncorrected vision
* Antibiotic usage in the past 3 months
* \>1 serving/d of soy food habitual consumption

About the study

This study aims to conduct a randomized clinical trial to measure the effects of a 3-month daily mixed-soy food intervention vs. a control group receiving isocaloric foods on reproductive hormones, body composition, metabolic risk, fecal microbiota, and cognition among 8-11-year-old children. Additionally, this study will assess soy food intake immediately following participation in the clinical trial to determine changes in soy food acceptance in children.

What is being tested

• Soy foods (other)
• Non-Soy Plant-Based Foods (other)

Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Participants: 96 · Started: Mar 18, 2024

Contact the study team

• Naiman Khan, PhD, RD · Phone: 2173002197

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06276426

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.