Involving children in meal preparation. Effects on food intake

Horst, Klazine van der; Ferrage, Aurore; Rytz, Andréas

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2014.03.030

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“…Considering former studies that show cooking food together positively influences children's dietary patterns (Leech et al, 2014;van der Horst, Ferrage, & Rytz, 2014), we suggest that cooking food together creates a happy, relaxed atmosphere (Sleddens et al, 2014) that may reinforce children's preferences for foods the family cooks together. Cooking food makes children feel empowered and proud (van der Horst et al, 2014); therefore, involving children in food preparation might be an effective strategy for encouraging children to eat healthy foods.…”

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The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

2015

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This study used Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to explore how familydinner-related communication takes place and how parents' feeding practices may be associated with children's preferences for dinner meals. The sample consisted of 12 dyads with seven-and eight-year-old Norwegian children and their parents. In-depth photo interviews were used for collecting data. Interview transcripts and photographs were examined through content analysis.Results indicated that most families were conversation oriented, and communication tended to shift from consensual during weekdays to pluralistic at weekends. On weekdays, the dinner menu was often a compromise between children's preferences and parents' intentions to provide quick, healthy dinner options for the family. To a greater extent at weekends, children were allowed to choose dinner alternatives for the entire family. Restriction of unhealthy dinner alternatives was the practice most used to control children's diets and, in fact, might explain children's high preferences for unhealthy dinner alternatives. Results underline the importance of giving children control of what they eat and being responsive to children's preferences while guiding them towards healthy dinner alternatives rather than using force and restriction. From a more theoretical perspective, this study explored how FCPT could be combined with theories about parents feeding practices to understand meal preferences and choices among young children and their families, and how time and situation (context) influence families' communication patterns and feeding practices in their homes.

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The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

2015

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“…Interactive food activities can positively impact children's food awareness, eating and cooking enjoyment, and fruit and vegetable preferences. (Chu et al, 2013), (Caraher, Seeley, Wu, & Lloyd, 2013), (Van der Horst, Ferrage, & Rytz, 2014), (Cunningham-Sabo and Lohse, 2014) As well as valuable food skills, children develop a closer connection to and ownership of food. A recent systematic review of cooking programmes reported the positive influence these activities may exert on children's food preferences, attitudes and behaviours.…”

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A qualitative study of a food intervention in a primary school: Pupils as agents of change

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This study explored the impact of a school-based kitchen project at a large inner London school. Timetabled kitchen classroom sessions (90 min every fortnight) were held with all 7-9 year old pupils. Semi-structured focus group discussions (with 76 pupils, 16 parents) and interviews (with headteachers, catering managers and specialist staff) were conducted at the intervention school and a matched control school. Categories and concepts were derived using a grounded theory approach. Data analysis provided three main categories each with their related concepts: Pupil factors (enthusiasm and enjoyment of cooking, trying new foods, food knowledge and awareness, producing something tangible); School factors (learning and curriculum links, resource implications and external pressures) and Home factors (take home effects, confidence in cooking and self-esteem, parents' difficulties cooking at home with children). Children's engagement and the opportunity to cook supported increased food awareness, skills and food confidence. In the grounded theory that emerged, take home effects beyond the school gate dominate, as children act as agents of change and influence cooking and food choice at home. These short term outcomes have the potential to lead to longer term outcomes including changing eating behaviour and diet.

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“…For example, adolescent involvement in meal preparation has been associated with increased fruit, vegetable, iron, calcium, vitamins D and C, and folate intake, however these trends were not detected when parents prepared meals without their child's assistance [23]. Similarly promising effects have been observed in younger children [24][25][26].…”

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Utility of eButton images for identifying food preparation behaviors and meal-related tasks in adolescents

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Nutr J

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Background: Food preparation skills may encourage healthy eating. Traditional assessment of child food preparation employs self-or parent proxy-reporting methods, which are prone to error. The eButton is a wearable all-day camera that has promise as an objective, passive method for measuring child food preparation practices. Purpose: This paper explores the feasibility of the eButton to reliably capture home food preparation behaviors and practices in a sample of pre-and early adolescents (ages 9 to 13). Methods: This is a secondary analysis of two eButton pilot projects evaluating the dietary intake of pre-and early adolescents in or around Houston, Texas. Food preparation behaviors were coded into seven major categories including: browsing, altering food/adding seasoning, food media, meal related tasks, prep work, cooking and observing. Inter-coder reliability was measured using Cohen's kappa and percent agreement.

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Involving children in meal preparation. Effects on food intake

Cited by 144 publications

References 43 publications

The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

A qualitative study of a food intervention in a primary school: Pupils as agents of change

Utility of eButton images for identifying food preparation behaviors and meal-related tasks in adolescents

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