Attentional biases towards familiar and unfamiliar foods in children. The role of food neophobia

Abstract

Attentional biases towards familiar and unfamiliar foods in children.

Factors Associated With Food Neophobia in Children: Systematic Review

“…Thus, 19 articles were selected for analysis in the systematic review. 2,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] The main characteristics of the selected studies are presented in Table 1. When classifying them according to type of study, the exclusive presence of cross-sectional research was noteworthy.…”

“…The selected studies were carried out in 10 different countries, with the United States of America consisting in the country with the most publications (five articles), 2,12-15 followed by Australia (four articles). 11,[16][17][18] The selected studies were conducted in the years 2000, 2 2003, 12 2006, 19 2008, 16 2010, 20 2012, 14,17 2014, 21,22 2015, 18,23 2016, 13,24 2017, 15,25,26 2018 27,28 and 2019. 29 29 Concerning the language, the 19 articles were written in English.…”

“…The sample size of the studies ranged from 70 to 560 children of diverse origin in criteria such as: school environment, 2,15,16,19,20,22,23,[25][26][27][28][29] home environment, [12][13][14] hospital environment, 24 and pediatric outpatient clinic. 17,18,21 In the evaluation of methodological rigor, according to the QATQS criteria, 14 (74%) articles were classified as moderate [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][27][28][29] and 5 (26%), as weak. 2,12,23,25,26 The study design was the item that contributed to moderately classify the quality of the study; on the other hand, precision in data collection and confounders were the items that most contributed to the weak methodological rigor ( Figure 2).…”

Temperamental approach/withdrawal and food neophobia in early childhood: Concurrent and longitudinal associations

“…In the case of food neophobia, fear may motivate individuals to avoid the potential dangers of ingesting harmful substances or toxins (Rozin, 1976). In support of this argument, recent research has linked selective eating and food neophobia in children to high levels of anxiety and an attentional bias toward novel fruit and vegetable stimuli, respectively (Farrow & Coulthard, 2012: Maratos & Staples, 2015). Attentional biases towards threat have been implicated in fear and anxiety disorders (Cisler & Koster, 2010), so the results of these two studies are consistent with the findings of the present study linking fear and food neophobia.…”

School children preferences for fish formulations: The impact of child and parental food neophobia

“…Such behavior is low at the time of weaning, reaching a peak between 2 and 6 years of age. Because of an association with low liking and reduced consumption of fruits, vegetables (Coulthard & Blissett, ; Laureati, Bertoli, et al, ; Maratos & Staples, ) and protein foods (Reverdy, Chesnel, Schlich, Köster, & Lange, ; Siegrist, Hartmann, & Keller, ), food neophobia is associated with a less varied diet (Falciglia, Couch, Gribble, Pabst, & Frank, ). However, the relationship between food neophobia and fish intake has been rarely investigated (Knaapila et al, ), and even fewer studies on the topic have focused on children (Mustonen, Oerlemans, & Tuorila, ; Siegrist et al, ).…”