# Measuring Dietary Iron Absorption From Edible Insects and Assessing the Effect of Chitin Content on Iron Bioavailability (Study 1)

> **NCT04510831** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Swiss Federal Institute of Technology** · enrollment: 21 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Iron-deficiency

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Refined maize with extrinsic addition of labelled FeSO4
- **OTHER:** T.molitor native chitin
- **OTHER:** T molitor reduced chitin

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04510831
- **Lead sponsor:** Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2020-10-26
- **Primary completion:** 2020-12-08
- **Final completion:** 2020-12-09
- **Target enrollment:** 21 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2022-06-13

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04510831

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04510831, "Measuring Dietary Iron Absorption From Edible Insects and Assessing the Effect of Chitin Content on Iron Bioavailability (Study 1)". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04510831. Licensed CC0.

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