App encourages legume purchases in new study
NCT ID NCT07600606
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether a mobile app could encourage healthy eating by promoting legume purchases. Researchers asked 682 adults to use the app and then complete a simulated online grocery shopping task. The goal was to see if tailored messages could increase the number of legumes people bought.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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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
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682 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2025
- Finished
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Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 to 30 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * be university students (enrolled in a bachelor's degree, master's degree/specialized degree/single-cycle degree program, or postgraduate education); * own a smartphone. Exclusion Criteria: * consume an adequate amount of legumes (\> 3 servings); * suffer from one or more conditions that could represent a contraindication to the consumption of certain specific categories of legumes, such as favism, allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, short bowel syndrome and/or leaky gut, forms of intestinal dysbiosis, or other intestinal disorders.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1
Milan, 20126, Italy
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