Evaluation of the Efficacy and Tolerability of the Mediterranean Diet Pattern in the Exclusion Diet for Patients With Crohn's Disease.

The Mediterranean Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diet (Med-CDED) is the exclusion diet (CDED) adapted to the Mediterranean diet pattern. The Med-CDED consists of 2 phases in dietary therapy and a maintenance phase: the first phase lasting 8 weeks, the second phase lasting 16 weeks, and the maintenance phase, which for the purposes of the study will last 28 weeks.

The original Crohn's disease exclusion diet, used as a comparator, is widely employed among first-line treatments in clinical practice for inducing remission in pediatric patients with Crohn's disease.