N/A(healthy adault)
Conditions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1)Japanese individuals aged 30-59 years. 2)Individuals who are healthy and are not suffered from a chronic malady including skin disease. 3)Individuals who are anxious abour skin dryness. 4)Individuals whose written informed consent has been obtained. 5)Individulals who can visit an inspection facility and be inspected in designated days. 6)Individuals judged appropriate for the study by the principal.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1)Individuals using medical products. 2)Individuals with skin disease. 3)Individuals with strange skin conditions at measurement points(left cheek). 4)Individuals who used or applied a drug for treatment of disease in the past 1 month. 5)Individuals who have a history of serious hepatopathy, kidney damage, heart disease, hematological and blood disease. 6)Individuals who contract or have a history of serious gastrointestinal disease. 7)Individuals with serious anemia. 8)Individuals with food allergy. 9)Females who are or are possibly pregnant, or are lactating. 10)Males who shave with a razor. 11)Individuals who have an addiction to alcohol or a mental illness. 12)Individuals who are a smoker. 13)Individuals whose life style will change during the test period. 14)Individuals with probable seasonal allergy, such as pollinosis, during the test period.(In particular, Betulaceae, Taxodiaceae, Asteraceae, Gramineae) 15)Individuals who will get sunburned during the test period. 16)Individuals who had a habit to ingest health-promoting foods, foods for specified health uses, health foods, or supplements in the past 3 months or will ingest those foods during the test period. 17)Individuals who had a habit to ingest health-promoting foods, foods for specified health uses, health foods, or supplements in the past 3 months or will ingest those foods during the test period. 18)Individuals who have a habit to use drug claiming to improve skin condition in the past 3 months. 19)Individuals who conducted hormone replacement therapy in the past 3 months or have a history of conducting hormone replacement therapy. 20)Individuals who have received a cosmetic medicine in the past 6 months. 21)Individuals who were hospitalized and received treatment in the past 6 months. 22)Individuals who participated in other clinical studies in the past three months. 23)Individuals judged inappropriate for the study by the principal.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Indexes for skin conditions(skin moisture content, transepidermal water loss, skin viscoelasticity, pore structure) 0, 4 and 8 weeks after a test food intake | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subject's diary(from the first day of ingestion of a test food to the last day of the test) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
MORINAGA & CO., LTD. Health Science and Research Center, R&D institute