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Innovative plant protein fibre and physical activity solutions to address poor appetite and prevent undernutrItion in older adults (APPETITE)
Project
Project code: 2820ERA18E
Contract period: 01.04.2021
- 31.03.2024
Budget: 115,385 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: food pattern, nutritional information/recommendation, malnutrition, human studies, ingredients, food technology, food engineering, nutrients, plant nutrition, prevention, elderly people
The overall objective of APPETITE is to prevent undernutrition in community-dwelling older persons by enhancing appetite through targeted nutrition and physical activity. This objective will be pursued by developing innovative, acceptable, accessible, affordable and easily applicable food products based on combinations of several plant proteins and dietary fibres for and together with older persons with poor appetite. Effects of the selected products on digestibility, amino acid bioavailability and whole-body protein metabolism, appetite, incidence of undernutrition and other nutritional and functional outcomes in older persons with poor appetite and at high risk of undernutrition will be subsequently examined – with and without an additional physical activity intervention.
Section overview
Subjects
- Physiology of Nutrition