Over an eight - week period, 48 postmenopausal women with pre - and stage - 1 hypertension were randomly assigned to receive either 22 grams of freeze - dried blueberry powder — the equivalent to one cup of fresh blueberries — or 22 grams of
a placebo powder.
In a second study of 18 children with peanut allergies, the researchers gave the peanut protein treatment to 12 children and
placebo powder to the other six.
Not exact matches
Half of the participants took one gram of curcumin
powder daily for eight weeks while the other half received a
placebo pill.
In a similar fashion on a different day, the same subjects ingested incremental doses of
placebo oat
powder; again, blood samples were drawn before, during, and after the challenge.
75 heavy smokers meeting a set of health and lifestyle criteria were randomly divided into three groups for a double - blind
placebo study, and instructed to take assigned mixed fruit and vegetable juice
powder concentrate capsules twice daily (Juice Plus + ®, NSA, Collierville, TN).
Another group's capsules (FVB) contained the same ingredients with additional berry juice concentrate
powder, and the control group was given a
placebo.
30 minutes before sleep (11:30 pm) they took either 40g of casein protein
powder, or they took a
placebo.
Those who took the lion's mane
powder showed significantly increased scores on the cognitive function scale compared with the
placebo group.
Vitamin C
powder was my sugar
placebo that I would sprinkle in every glass of water I drank lol.
Group one received 3 one - gram capsules containing ginger
powder whereas the
placebo group took 3 one - gram microcrystalline - containing capsules daily for 8 weeks.
The study was conducted in the Tokyo University of Agriculture, and the results were published online in the journal Data in Brief (December 2017), describing the variations in vasodilation and blood pressure changes in 20 healthy young adults (10 female and 10 male, 18 - 28 years old), after being randomly administered a single dose of three soft gelatin capsules, each one containing either 25 mg of freeze - dried camu camu
powder or water as a
placebo.
This study fed grape
powder to a group of humans with kidney disease; when fed a
placebo they had elevated levels of the classic pro-inflammatory biomarker c - reactive protein, but when fed grapes this increase was eliminated.
People who ingested 900 mg of garlic
powder daily had up to 18 % less arterial plaque at the end of the study than those taking a
placebo.
The
placebo drink, made of distilled water, fructose, dextrose and lemon
powder, did not contain these polyphenols found in the tart cherry juice.
In a small study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2001, for instance, 46 people with high cholesterol were placed on a low - fat diet and assigned to 12 weeks of treatment with either a
placebo or enteric - coated garlic
powder tablets designed to deliver 9.6 mg of allicin.
-- In another trial with diabetic patients published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1990, those who consumed
powdered fenugreek had significantly lower blood levels of both glucose and cholesterol compared to others who took a
placebo.
The participants consumed daily either freeze - dried blueberry
powder (equal to a cup of blueberries) or a
placebo for 16 weeks.
These participants were given either blueberry
powder, fish oil, fish oil and
powder or
placebo.
«There was improvement in cognitive performance and brain function in those who had the blueberry
powder compared with those who took the
placebo,» Krikorian says.