Play with your food! Sensory play is associated with tasting of fruits and vegetables in preschool children

Coulthard, Helen; Sealy, A. P.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2017.02.003

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“…One study found that interactive reading increased vegetable acceptance and one study showed that letting children participate in looking, listening, feeling and smelling activities increased their willingness to taste unusual fruits and vegetables. The results of the latter study are complementary to a study in pre-school children showing that sensory play with fruits and vegetables increased the number of fruits and vegetables that were tasted by the participating children after the intervention (Coulthard & Sealy, 2017) and with a recent study on texture that showed that tactile play can improve acceptance of foods in 3-10y children (Nederkoorn, Theiβen, Tummers, & Roefs, 2018). These may be interesting interventions for further investigation.…”

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A systematic review of practices to promote vegetable acceptance in the first three years of life

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A systematic review of practices to promote vegetable acceptance in the first three years of life

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“…(), who noted that, in a community where underweight was common, toddlers who fed themselves ate more than those fed by a parent. A similar suggestion comes from studies by Dazeley and Houston‐Price () and Coulthard and Sealy (), which found that pre‐schoolers consumed more when they were allowed to touch or play with their food. This possibility deserves greater attention in relation to younger infants.…”

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Baby‐led weaning: Where are we now?

Rapley

2018

Nutrition Bulletin

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When baby‐led weaning (BLW) first emerged as a concept, in the early 2000s, it was seen as a new and different approach to complementary feeding, a challenge to the accepted way of doing things – which indeed it was. Since then, there has been a gradual reassessment of the perceived wisdom that guides how complementary feeding is approached, with the result that many of the features of BLW are now reflected in mainstream thinking. The publication of the report of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, Feeding in the First Year of Life, which summarises and evaluates the existing evidence base for infant feeding as a benchmark for UK guidelines, provides a useful opportunity to look at how well the baby‐led approach fits with current evidence and which aspects of the introduction of solid foods remain to be investigated.

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“…No study has so far directly compared the effects of the books used in the current study with other manipulations found to be effective in this age group. For example, positive outcomes have been reported among preschoolers who look at narrative story books about cartoon characters who grow strong after eating vegetables (de Droog, Buijzen, & Valkenbury, 2014) or who engage in non-taste sensory play with foods (Coulthard & Ahmed, 2017;Coulthard & Sealy, 2017;Dazeley & Houston-Price, 2015). Interestingly, hands-on tactile experience with foods has been shown to have a greater impact on children's willingness to taste and intake of foods than either playing with pictures of foods (Coulthard & Ahmed, 2017) or observing someone else playing with the food (Coulthard and Sealy, 2017), suggesting that familiarity with foods in more than one sensory modality may be beneficial.…”

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Parents’ experiences of introducing toddlers to fruits and vegetables through repeated exposure, with and without prior visual familiarization to foods: Evidence from daily diaries

Houston‐Price

Owen

Kennedy

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Food Quality and Preference

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While repeated exposure is an established method for inducing food acceptance in young children, little is known about parents' experiences of repeatedly offering new or disliked foods at home. In this study, parents kept structured diary records during a 15-day period in which they offered their 2-year-old child daily tastes of one fruit and one vegetable. We explored how children's acceptance of foods (measured in terms of willingness to taste, liking and intake) and the ease and enjoyment of the process for parents changed from the early (days 1-5) to middle (days 6-10) to later (days 11-15) phases of exposure. In addition, we explored whether prior visual familiarization to foods affected children's behavior and/or parents' experiences during exposure. Families were randomly assigned to look at a picture book about one to-be-exposed food for the two weeks prior to the exposure phase ('fruit book' and 'vegetable book' groups) or to a control group, who did not receive a book. Measures obtained from parents' diary records revealed increases in willingness to taste and intake of vegetables and increased liking of both fruits and vegetables with greater exposure. Prior visual familiarization to vegetables further boosted children's willingness to taste and liking of vegetables, and the ease and enjoyment of introducing these for parents. Children's acceptance of foods and parents' positivity during exposure predicted children's liking and intake of foods 3 months later. Results confirm the potential for vegetable picture books to support parents in engaging with repeated exposure regimes and in successfully introducing vegetables into toddlers' diets.

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Play with your food! Sensory play is associated with tasting of fruits and vegetables in preschool children

Cited by 107 publications

References 41 publications

A systematic review of practices to promote vegetable acceptance in the first three years of life

A systematic review of practices to promote vegetable acceptance in the first three years of life

Baby‐led weaning: Where are we now?

Parents’ experiences of introducing toddlers to fruits and vegetables through repeated exposure, with and without prior visual familiarization to foods: Evidence from daily diaries

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