Food perception is shaped by many factors including genes, geographical location, social and cultural influences, food availability. Interactions among these can result in cross-cultural differences taste preferences. However, understanding how any single factor accounts for variability difficult when comparing societies that are both geographically culturally distinct. Here, to more directly t...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Previous studies showed that (1) breastfeeding and (2) higher food variety early in weaning can increase acceptance of new foods for the next few days. Here we measure, in two European regions, effects of breast or formula feeding and experience with different levels of vegetable variety early in weaning on new food acceptance during two months following the start of weaning. ...

Greater food variety is related to increased energy intake, and one approach to reduce food intake is to reduce food variety. The effects of varying the variety of foods at the dinner meal to reduce energy intake was assessed in laboratory and field experiments. Experiment 1 randomly assigned 31 overweight children to one of three conditions that provided one laboratory meal per day over a week...