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Ahern, SM, Caton, SJ, Blundell, P et al. (1 more author) (2014) The root of the problem: increasing root vegetable intake in preschool children by repeated exposure and flavour flavour learning. Appetite, 80. pp. 154-160. ISSN 0195-6663
Abstract
Children's vegetable consumption falls below current recommendations, highlighting the need to identify strategies that can successfully promote intake. The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of flavour-flavour learning as one such strategy for increasing vegetable intake in preschool children. Children (N = 29) aged 15 to 56 months were recruited through participating nurseries. Each received a minimum of six and maximium eight exposures to a root vegetable puree with added apple puree (flavour-flavour learning) alternating with six to eight exposures to another with nothing added (repeated exposure). A third puree acted as a control. Pre- and post-intervention intake measures of the three purees with nothing added were taken to assess change in intake. Follow-up measures took place 1 month (n = 28) and 6 months (n = 10) post-intervention. Intake increased significantly from pre- to post-intervention for all purees (~36 g), with no effect of condition. Magnitude of change was smaller in the control condition. Analysis of follow-up data showed that intake remained significantly higher than baseline 1 month (p < 0.001) and 6 months (p < 0.001) post-intervention for all conditions. Children under 24 months ate consistently more across the intervention than the older children (≥24 m) with no differences found in response to condition. This study confirms previous observations that repeated exposure increases intake of a novel vegetable in young children. Results also suggest that mere exposure (to the food, the experimenters, the procedure) can generalise to other, similar vegetables but the addition of a familiar flavour confers no added advantage above mere exposure.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Appetite. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Vegetable intake; Preschool children; Repeated exposure; Learning |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2016 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2016 10:35 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.016 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.016 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98446 |
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