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Future for food education of children
Mari Sandell,Bent Egberg Mikkelsen,Arja Lyytikäinen,Pauliina Ojansivu,Ulla Hoppu,Anna Hillgrén,Hanna Lagström +6 more
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The Future for Food workshop as discussed by the authors focused on the knowledge applied to the sensory-based food education for children, and the learning cafe method was used for the workshop attendees to outline the food education possibilities.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2016-10-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food choice.read more
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Developing Healthy Food Preferences in Preschool Children Through Taste Exposure, Sensory Learning, and Nutrition Education
TL;DR: To strengthen intervention effects for improving vegetable intake in preschool children, future research could consider integrating taste exposure and sensory learning strategies with nutrition education within the preschool curriculum.
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Biodiverse edible schools: Linking healthy food, school gardens and local urban biodiversity
Leonie K. Fischer,Daniel Brinkmeyer,Stefanie Josefine Karle,Kathrine Cremer,Eva Huttner,Martin Seebauer,Ulrich Nowikow,Bernd Schütze,Paula Voigt,Simone Völker,Ingo Kowarik +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study from Berlin, Germany illustrates how stakeholders from different spheres can work together to bring critical components of biodiverse edible schools to reality, including a school kitchen supplied with food from regional producers, a garden on the school's grounds for producing food, a neighboring vacant wild site as a habitat for wild edible plants, and collaborative activities in planning, managing and using the garden and the wild site.
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Sensory-based food education in early childhood education and care, willingness to choose and eat fruit and vegetables, and the moderating role of maternal education and food neophobia
TL;DR: Child-oriented sensory-based food education seems to provide a promising method for promoting children’s adoption of vegetables, berries and fruit in their diets.
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Development and validation of a food literacy instrument for school children in a Danish context.
TL;DR: This study developed, tested, and validated a FL instrument targeting children aged 12-14 years that builds on a broad 5-dimensional FL concept that includes the competency of knowing and doing, as well as the rarely investigated competencies of using the senses, caring for others, and wanting to participate as a citizen regarding food issues.
Genetic variation in the hTAS2R38 taste receptor and food consumption among Finnish adults
Mari Sandell,Ulla Hoppu,Vera Mikkilä,Vera Mikkilä,Nina Mononen,Mika Kähönen,Satu Männistö,Tapani Rönnemaa,Tapani Rönnemaa,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Terho Lehtimäki,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between bitter taste receptor haplotypes and the consumption of vegetables, fruits, berries and sweet foods among an adult Finnish population, and found that the intake of sweet foods was higher among the PAV homozygotes of both genders.
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Development of a scale to measure the trait of food neophobia in humans
Patricia Pliner,Karen L. Hobden +1 more
TL;DR: A paper and pencil measure of the trait of food neophobia, which was defined as a reluctance to eat and/or avoidance of novel foods, was found to have satisfactory test-retest reliability and internal consistency.
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Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases
Heiner Boeing,Angela Bechthold,Achim Bub,Sabine Ellinger,Dirk Haller,Anja Kroke,Eva Leschik-Bonnet,Manfred J. Müller,H Oberritter,Matthias B. Schulze,Peter Stehle,Bernhard Watzl +11 more
TL;DR: This critical review on the associations between the intake of vegetables and fruit and the risk of several chronic diseases shows that a high daily intake of these foods promotes health.
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Health-Promoting Components of Fruits and Vegetables in the Diet
TL;DR: Consumers should obtain their nutrients, antioxidants, bioactive compounds, and phytochemicals from a balanced diet with a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other plant foods for optimal nutrition, health, and well-being, not from dietary supplements.
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Modifying children's food preferences: the effects of exposure and reward on acceptance of an unfamiliar vegetable
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated two interventions (one reward-based and one exposure-based) for increasing children's acceptance of an unfamiliar vegetable compared with a no-treatment control.
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Children’s eating attitudes and behaviour: a study of the modelling and control theories of parental influence
Rachael Brown,Jane Ogden +1 more
TL;DR: A positive parental role model may be a better method for improving a child's diet than attempts at dietary control and provides some support for both the modelling and control theories of parental influence.