Exposure to a Slightly Sweet Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement During Early Life Does Not Increase the Preference for or Consumption of Sweet Foods and Beverages by 4-6-y-Old Ghanaian Preschool Children: Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Copper (Supplement).

Whether consuming sweet foods early in life affects sweet food preferences and consumption later in childhood is unknown.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were infants, young children and children, both men and women.

The researchers followed up children who had participated in a randomized trial in Ghana in which LNS was provided to 1 group of women during pregnancy and 6 mo postpartum and to their infants from ages 6-18 mo (LNS group).

The control group (non-LNS group) received iron and folic acid during pregnancy or multiple micronutrients during pregnancy and 6 mo postpartum, with no infant supplementation.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Copper (Supplement) and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

At 4-6 y, the researchers obtained data from caregivers on children's food and beverage preferences and consumption (n = 985).

For a randomly selected subsample (n = 624), the researchers assessed preference for sweet items using a photo game (range in potential scores, 0-15).

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Beverages, Dietary Supplements, Food Preferences, Ghana, Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena and Sweetening Agents.

The authors tagged it with the keywords children, consumption, lipid-based nutrient supplements, sugar-sweetened beverage and sweet food.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Copper (Supplement).

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2019 (The Journal of nutrition), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Copper (Supplement) compound page, all human trials.