Emerald dragon bites vs veggie beans: Fun food names increase children’s consumption of novel healthy foods

Musher‐Eizenman, Dara R.; Oehlhof, Marissa Wagner; Young, Kathleen M.; Hauser, Jessica C.; Galliger, Courtney C.; Sommer, Alyssa

doi:10.1177/1476718x10366729

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“…The nursery had recently introduced some changes to the menus to improve the nutritional value of the food and new dishes included food that the children were not necessarily familiar with and may be reluctant to try. Food neophobia, a fear of eating unfamiliar food, is a source of difficulty for caregivers of young children (Musher‐Eizenman et al., 2011). The practitioners were keen to find out if the children were eating the food provided, which they did through observations of the children's eating pattern throughout the day.…”

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Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

Musgrave

Payler

2021

Children & Society

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This pilot study was conducted in one early childhood pre‐school nursery setting in an area of high deprivation in England to explore the under‐researched area of how practitioners promote the health of children. The research used an original tool, Child Health Promotion: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners, containing a 5 Step Programme as a model to guide practitioners in identifying and implementing a health promotion activity. The findings will help to set the onward agenda for a larger scale study which will foreground the voices of practitioners and highlight the role that ECEC practitioners can play in promoting the health of children.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

Musgrave

Payler

2021

Children & Society

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“…Likewise, exposing adults to information suggesting that limiting junk food consumption can be beneficial to health, reduced junk food consumption relative to a control condition in a recent study ( Robinson, Harris, et al., 2013 ). However, there are also studies which suggest that, in some contexts, health messages may not be an effective way to increase fruit and vegetable intake ( Maimaran and Fishbach, 2014 , Musher-Eizenman et al., 2011 , Wardle and Huon, 2000 ). For example, Maimaran and Fishbach (2014) showed that presenting food as instrumental to achieving a goal, for example, outlining the health benefits of eating certain foods, decreased consumption in pre-school children.…”

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Encouraging children to eat more fruit and vegetables: Health vs. descriptive social norm-based messages

Sharps

Robinson

2016

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Traditional intervention approaches to promote fruit and vegetable consumption outline the health benefits of eating fruit and vegetables. More recently, social norm-based messages describing the healthy eating habits of others have been shown to increase fruit and vegetable intake in adults. Here we report two experimental studies which investigated whether exposure to descriptive social norm-based messages about the behaviour of other children and health-based messages increased fruit and vegetable intake in young children. In both studies children were exposed to messages whilst playing a board-game. After exposure to the messages, children were able to consume fruit and vegetables, as well as high calorie snack foods. Although findings were inconsistent across the two individual studies, in a pooled analysis we found evidence that both health messages and descriptive social norm-based messages increased children's fruit and vegetable intake, relative to control condition messages (p < .05). Whether descriptive social norm-based messages can be used to promote meaningful changes to children's dietary behaviour warrants further study.

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“…It is possible that tactics similar to those used to sell deceptively unhealthy foods could be utilized to sell actually healthy foods. For example, Musher-Eizenman et al (2011) increased toddler and preschoolers' consumption of vegetables by giving them fun names (e.g. edamame was named Emerald Dragon Bites).…”

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Deceptively unhealthy foods targeting parents and children

Kiefner‐Burmeister

Burmeister

2020

J Health Psychol

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This review introduces the construct of deceptively unhealthy foods and identifies the ways that these unhealthy foods are marketed to parents and children. Deceptively unhealthy foods are foods that are high in sugar or high in fat while low in nutrient content, but which are marketed as being healthy. They are commonly marketed using these tactics (1) specific nutrient labels, (2) deceptive terms, (3) general health reputation, and (4) package design. This paper reviews the small but growing literature on this topic, highlights four tactics used to deceive health-conscious parents, and provides suggestions for how changes in marketing may help reduce the consumption of such foods.

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Emerald dragon bites vs veggie beans: Fun food names increase children’s consumption of novel healthy foods

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings

Encouraging children to eat more fruit and vegetables: Health vs. descriptive social norm-based messages

Deceptively unhealthy foods targeting parents and children

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