Let's look at leeks! Picture books increase toddlers' willingness to look at, taste and consume unfamiliar vegetables

Increasing food familiarity without the tears. A role for visual exposure?

Research has established the success of taste exposure paradigms as a means of increasing children's acceptance, and liking, of previously unfamiliar or disliked foods. Yet, parents report that they tend to avoid the stress associated with repeatedly offering their children foods that are likely to be rejected. Given that successful taste exposure programmes often enhance children's familiarity...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Exposure to foods' non-taste sensory properties. A nursery intervention to increase children's willingness to try fruit and vegetables

Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's consumption of healthy foods. This study provides the first empirical exploration of the effectiveness of a non-taste sensory activity program in a nursery school setting. Ninety-two children aged between 12 and 36 ...

The use of repeated exposure and associative conditioning to increase vegetable acceptance in children: explaining the variability across studies.

O NE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS by parents is, “How can I get my child to eat more vegetables?” Despite all their health benefits, vegetables are the least-liked food category among children, and this is one of the reasons why intake remains well below recommendations. Yet vegetables come in many shapes, sizes, and flavors, some of which are more readily accepted than others. The Fe...

The impact of nutrition education with and without a school garden on knowledge, vegetable intake and preferences and quality of school life among primary-school students.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of school garden-enhanced nutrition education (NE) on children's fruit and vegetable consumption, vegetable preferences, fruit and vegetable knowledge and quality of school life. DESIGN Quasi-experimental 10-week intervention with nutrition education and garden (NE&G), NE only and control groups. Fruit and vegetable knowledge, vegetable preferences (willing...