Food Preferences of Young Children1

Lowenberg, Miriam E.

doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(21)44222-7

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“…It is commonly believed that differences exist between the taste preferences of children and adults. Children are anecdotally reported to prefer tastes that adults find overly, even "sickeningly," sweet (Moskowitz, 1974) and to avoid tastes with spicy or bitter components that adults actively accept (Lowenberg, 1948;Rozin, 1976). Increasing experience with various tastes, in the context of social and cultural pressures, undoubtedly plays a critical role in determining adult preferences.…”

Section: The Childmentioning

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Development of taste perception in humans: Sensitivity and preference throughout the life span.

Cowart

1981

Psychological Bulletin

198

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Critically reviews literature relating to the development of taste sensitivity and preference in humans. Characterization of the sensitivities and preferences of children and the elderly, relative to those of young adults, is of both theoretical and practical importance. Nonetheless, these age groups have been neglected in psychophysical investigations. There is a need to employ measurement techniques that are minimally affected by developmental changes in attention, motivation, and other nonsensory factors. Increased investigative effort should also be directed toward the study of possible developmental changes in suprathreshold perception. Preferences for taste qualities should not be characterized in terms of averaged, positive or negative responses. Rather, individual functions relating degree of preference to tastant concentration should be examined. (4 p ref)

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Section: The Childmentioning

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Development of taste perception in humans: Sensitivity and preference throughout the life span.

Cowart

1981

Psychological Bulletin

198

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Christine Wilson's presentation at the 1999 Food Choice Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kelsey

2002

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Predicting children's meal preferences: How much do parents know?

2008

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We investigate how accurate parents are at predicting their children's meal preferences and what cues best describe parents' predictions. In Study 1, 30 parents predicted their children's school lunch choices from actual school menus. Parents' prediction accuracy matched the stability of children's meal choices (assessed in a 4-month retest), implying that accuracy was as high as can be expected. Parents appeared to make their predictions by using specific knowledge about their child's likes and by projecting their own preferences. In Study 2, we asked 58 parents to predict their children's preferences for 30 randomly drawn school meals, and compared them to the children's actual preferences. Again, parents showed high prediction accuracy and predicted the lunches their children liked correctly more often than the disliked ones. Overall, parents' accuracy in predicting their children's food preferences was as good as or better than found in previous preference prediction studies that used less ecologically relevant task domains. r

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Food Preferences of Young Children1

Cited by 20 publications

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Development of taste perception in humans: Sensitivity and preference throughout the life span.

Development of taste perception in humans: Sensitivity and preference throughout the life span.

Christine Wilson's presentation at the 1999 Food Choice Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Predicting children's meal preferences: How much do parents know?

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