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Healthy meals at work: a recipe for better eating?

NCT ID NCT05776303

Prevention Sponsor: Equiti Food, LLC Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Aug 28, 2026 · Last updated Aug 28, 2026

Summary

This trial tests whether making subsidized healthy meals available at worksites can improve workers' eating habits. Some participants also receive smartphone app nudges with nutrition tips and reminders. The study compares the two approaches over several months, measuring diet quality, weight, blood pressure, and food security.

What this could mean

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Active substance
Subsidized healthy frozen meals, with or without smartphone app nudges
What this could lead to
If it works, this could point toward a simple, scalable way to improve eating habits and health in the workplace.
What could go wrong
The trial is relatively small and early, and results may not apply to other settings. The intervention depends on workers choosing the meals and following the app, which may not happen for everyone.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

201 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Mar 2023

Finished

Jul 2025

Lead sponsor

A company

The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Employed at participating worksite * No plans to move from the area for at least 1 year * Free living to the extent that participant has control over dietary intake * Willing and able to provide written informed consent and participate in all study activities Exclusion Criteria: * Severe food allergies * Advanced kidney disease (estimated creatinine clearance \< 30 ml/min) * Known psychosis or major psychiatric illness that prevents participation with study activities * Cognitive impairment, frailty, or other disability such that individual cannot fully participate in study activities

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Conditions

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Feeding Behavior

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Behavior, eating Nutrition, healthy

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States

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