Testing watermelon or low-fat cookies for wellness in adults with overweight or obesity
Compares watermelon and low-fat cookies on sexual, skin and gut health in adults.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- San Diego State University
- Where
- San Diego, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Effects of Watermelon or Low-fat Cookie Consumption on Wellness
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 80 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Mar 2024
- Expected to end
- Dec 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Low-fat cookies
- Watermelon
- Record updated
- 28 August 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for generally healthy adults aged 18 to 50 with a BMI of 20-40 kg/m2. It studies how eating watermelon affects sexual, skin and gut health.
- Age
- 18 to 50 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Smokers
- Pregnant women
- Needing antibiotics
- Needing dietary supplements
- Needing medicine for metabolic disorders, mental health or sexual health
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Generally healthy subjects
- BMI 20-40 kg/m2
Who cannot take part
- Required medication of metabolic disorders, mental health and sexual health
- Allergy to watermelon or wheat
- Smoker
- Pregnant woman
- Required antibiotics use
- Required dietary supplement use
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 50 years old?
Where in United States
- School of Exercise and Nutritional SciencesSan Diego, United StatesContact: Mee Young Hong, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The objective of the proposed research is to determine the effects of fresh watermelon consumption on physiological indicators of wellness regarding sexual, skin and gut health in adults.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Low-fat cookiesExisting treatment, for comparison
Subjects consume 100 kcal of low-fat cookies daily for 4 weeks.
- WatermelonTreatment being tested
Subjects consume 100 kcal of watermelon daily for 4 weeks.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Effects of Watermelon or Low-fat Cookie Consumption on Wellness
- Plain-language title
- Testing watermelon or low-fat cookies for wellness in adults with overweight or obesityGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06323070, who can take part
- Record updated
- 28 August 2026