Fruit and vegetable consumption in children and their mothers. Moderating effects of child sensory sensitivity

Coulthard, Helen; Blissett, Jacqueline

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.11.015

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“…To our knowledge, seven studies have assessed the association between food neophobia and intake of vegetables and fruits in children. The results of five of the studies showed that food neophobia was significantly inversely associated with intake of vegetables and fruits in preschool children (Cooke et al, 2003(Cooke et al, , 2004(Cooke et al, , 2006Wardle et al, 2005;Coulthard and Blissett, 2009). However, the results of separate analyses of boys' and girls' data were not shown in these studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This natural rejection might lead to food neophobia. Several studies have reported that neophobic children have lower consumption of vegetables and fruits than non-neophobic children (Cooke et al, 2003(Cooke et al, , 2004(Cooke et al, , 2006Wardle et al, 2005;Coulthard and Blissett, 2009); however, all of these studies were conducted in western countries and none of them included soy foods. Furthermore, PROP status may modify the relationship between food neophobia and food consumption and vice versa.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Relationship of intake of plant-based foods with 6-n-propylthiouracil sensitivity and food neophobia in Japanese preschool children

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Background/Objectives: Diets rich in plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruits and soy foods have been suggested to have beneficial effects on health. However, phytochemicals contained in plant-based foods are generally bitter and acrid. We investigated whether intake of vegetables, fruits and soy foods is associated with sensitivity to bitterness and reluctance to eat new foods (food neophobia) in Japanese preschool children. Subjects/Methods: Subjects of this cross-sectional study were healthy Japanese, 167 boys and 156 girls, aged 4-6 years. Intake of vegetables, fruits and soy foods was estimated from 3-day dietary records. Subjects were classified as either tasters or nontasters of 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) based on their ability to taste 0.56 mmol/l PROP. Information on each child's age, height, weight, food neophobia status and food variety, as well as maternal diet and parental control over the child's eating, was obtained by a parent-administered questionnaire. Food neophobia was assessed using the Child Food Neophobia Scale (CFNS). Results: A high intake of vegetables was significantly associated with a low CFNS score in boys after controlling for covariates (P ¼ 0.0008). Among the boys, soy food intake was significantly higher in PROP non-tasters than in tasters, except those with low CFNS scores (P ¼ 0.0019). High intake of soy foods was significantly associated with a low neophobia score in PROP tasters but not in non-tasters (P ¼ 0.0024). Conclusions: These data suggest that sensitivity to bitter taste and food neophobia may influence the consumption of vegetables and soy foods among Japanese preschool boys.

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Relationship of intake of plant-based foods with 6-n-propylthiouracil sensitivity and food neophobia in Japanese preschool children

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“…According to a comparison of data from the National Birth Register, the mothers of the STEPS follow-up group resembled non-participating mothers of the cohort population in many aspects, importantly including BMI (25) . In addition, we regard parents as an important group to study for eating behaviour because, for example, maternal (or parental) fruit and vegetable consumption is a strong predictor of children's fruit and vegetable consumption (19,20,43,44) . Furthermore, we consider our study sample unbiased in relation to eating behaviour because the participants were derived from a larger study (STEPS) for which they were recruited using criteria unrelated to eating.…”

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“…Unsurprisingly, food neophobia restricts the variety of one's diet (13)(14)(15) , but the effects of neophobia on the consumed amounts of specific foods are less obvious. In children, however, several studies have shown that high food neophobia is associated with low consumption of fruit and vegetables (16)(17)(18)(19)(20) or specifically vegetables (2,21) . Results from the studies that measured consumption of fruit and vegetables separately (16,17,19,21) suggest that child food neophobia correlates more strongly with vegetable intake than with fruit intake.…”

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Food neophobia associates with lower dietary quality and higher BMI in Finnish adults

Knaapila

Sandell

Vaarno

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Food neophobia has been associated with decreased consumption of vegetables mainly among children. We hypothesized that food neophobia in adults is also associated with lower overall dietary quality and higher BMI. Design: Data for the present cross-sectional analyses were derived from parents in a follow-up family study. Setting: The STEPS study, a longitudinal study of health and development of a cohort of children born in south-west Finland. Subjects: The parents, 1178 women (age 19-45 years, mean 32·2 years) and 1013 men (age 18-57 years, mean 34·1 years), completed a questionnaire at home when their child was 13 months old. The questionnaire included the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS; range 10-70), the Index of Diet Quality (IDQ; range 0-16) and a measure of fruit and vegetable consumption. At that time the participants' height and weight were also measured by a research nurse to calculate BMI. ) as tested by one-way ANOVA, with all P values <0·001 in women and <0·05 in men. The food neophobics followed a diet lower in nutritional quality than did the food neophilics, especially regarding vegetables. Conclusions: Food neophobia may complicate adaptation to dietary recommendations and predispose to overweight.

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“…These are: a lack of dietary variety (Cooke et al, 2006;Falciglia et al, 2000); sensory sensitivity or defensiveness specific to food (Coulthard & Blissett, 2009;Farrow & Coulthard, 2012;Nederkoorn et al, 2015;Smith et al, 2005); and problematic behaviour during mealtimes (e.g. spitting out food, hand batting food away, packing) Lewinshon et al, 2005 (Dovey & Martin., 2012b) and food avoidance behaviour (Piazza et al, 2003) have also been attributed to ARFID in children (Bryant-Waugh et al, 2010;Dovey et al, 2009;Field et al, 2003;Kreipe & Palomaki, 2012) and appear as important characteristics under the development and course subsection of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version 5 (DSM-V) for ARFID.…”

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Screening Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in children: Outcomes from utilitarian versus specialist psychometrics

Dovey

Aldridge²,

Martin³

et al. 2016

Eating Behaviors

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This study assessed the specificity and sensitivity of two commonly used psychometric methods to assess ARFID in children. To achieve this, a sample of 329 mothers and one father completed the Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale (BPFAS) and the Child Food Neophobia Scale (CFNS). A Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis indicated that both measures were able to successfully differentiate a known clinical sample from those of typically developing population. Although the BPFAS was more accurate at differentiating ARFID from the general population, the CFNS was acceptable and on some metrics better than its longer counterpart. The ability of a food neophobia scale to differentiate clinical and population samples, and detect gradation of food avoidance within the population sample, suggests that the multitude of psychometric measures available may be measuring similar constructs. Therefore, confidence can be expected in cross-site comparisons despite each using different psychometric measures of food avoidance in children.

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Fruit and vegetable consumption in children and their mothers. Moderating effects of child sensory sensitivity

Cited by 181 publications

References 33 publications

Relationship of intake of plant-based foods with 6-n-propylthiouracil sensitivity and food neophobia in Japanese preschool children

Relationship of intake of plant-based foods with 6-n-propylthiouracil sensitivity and food neophobia in Japanese preschool children

Food neophobia associates with lower dietary quality and higher BMI in Finnish adults

Screening Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in children: Outcomes from utilitarian versus specialist psychometrics

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