Healthy Meals: A Restaurant-based Study to Promote Healthy and Allergy Adapted Diet

A Restaurant-based Intervention to Promote Healthy and Allergy Adapted Diet: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Tarragona (Spain)

This study evaluates the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).

The aim is to test the effect of a multicomponent intervention applied to restaurant staff about training and nutritional quality of menu improvement, in order to promote a healthy diet and a better management of allergies and intolerances addressed to each family member satisfying the customers with specific needs (allergies and intolerances of food).

The study is a 12-month restaurant-based intervention study, randomized, controlled and parallel.

The inclusion and exclusion criteria were about restaurants, as a unit of randomization. This study is randomized.

Inclusion Criteria:

• to have signed informed consent by the restaurant owner,
• to have minimum 5 tables of service,
• to offer local or Mediterranean food and recipes on the menu,
• to have the recipes with ingredient and cooking steps details, and
• to share the food products information used in the restaurant with the research team.

Exclusion Criteria:

• To be an ethnic restaurant, fast-food restaurant or a restaurant with a single product like only pizza, sushi, etc
• Lack of one of the inclusion criteria