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Do food-related experiences in the first 2 years of life predict dietary variety in school-aged children?
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It is found that nutrition education messages for mothers should emphasize the importance of early food-related experiences to school-aged children's acceptance of a variety of vegetables and fruits.Citations
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A review of family and social determinants of children's eating patterns and diet quality.
TL;DR: Interventions aimed at improving children’s nutrition need to address the variety of social and physical factors that influence children”s eating patterns.
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Food neophobia and 'picky/fussy' eating in children: a review.
TL;DR: Behavioural interventions, focusing on early life exposure, could be developed to attenuate food neophobia and 'picky/fussy' eating in children, so promoting the ready acceptance and independent choice of fruits and vegetables.
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The importance of exposure for healthy eating in childhood: a review.
TL;DR: A series of naturalistic studies testing the efficacy of exposure-based interventions to improve children's diets found large increases in liking and intake of raw red pepper were seen in 5- to 7-year olds and two further studies, in which mothers used exposure techniques to increase children's acceptance of vegetables, achieved similar results.
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Prevalence of picky eaters among infants and toddlers and their caregivers' decisions about offering a new food
TL;DR: Dietetics professionals need to be aware that caregivers who perceive their child as a picky eater are evident across gender, ethnicity, and household incomes.
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Responsive Feeding Is Embedded in a Theoretical Framework of Responsive Parenting
TL;DR: Evidence for the practice and developmental benefits of responsive parenting are examined with a view to providing a theoretical basis for responsive feeding and recommendations are made that future efforts to promote healthy growth and to prevent underweight and overweight among young children incorporate and evaluate responsive feeding.
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Prenatal and postnatal flavor learning by human infants.
TL;DR: Prenatal and early postnatal exposure to a flavor enhanced the infants' enjoyment of that flavor in solid foods during weaning, and these very early flavor experiences may provide the foundation for cultural and ethnic differences in cuisine.
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I don't like it; I never tried it: effects of exposure on two-year-old children's food preferences.
TL;DR: Results indicate that preference is an increasing function of exposure frequency, consistent with the mere exposure hypothesis as well as with the literature on the role of neophobia in food selection of animals other than man.
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Children's Food Preferences: A Longitudinal Analysis
TL;DR: Although children liked most foods, the number of liked foods did not change significantly during the 5 to 5.7 years of the study, which confirmed the important role of children's early food preferences.
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What kind of exposure reduces children's food neophobia? Looking vs tasting
TL;DR: The results indicate that to obtain significant positive changes in preference, experience with the food must include experience in the modality that is relevant for the judgments, and that experiences with novel tastes that are not followed by negative gastrointestinal consequences can produce enhanced taste preference.
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Pass the sugar, pass the salt: Experience dictates preference.
Susan A. Sullivan,Leann L. Birch +1 more
TL;DR: Etude de la preference pour des aliments sales, sucres ou insipides chez des enfants d'age prescolaire as mentioned in this paper, et al.