Families» Accounts of the Causal Processes in Food Choice

What parents prefer and children like – Investigating choice of vegetable-based food for children

“…This is an interesting result seen from the perspective of attitudes to novel foods and children's potential food neophobia towards unfamiliar foods and foods containing specific ingredients like vegetables (Nicklaus et al, 2004;Tuorila et al, 2001). Often green vegetables appear at the top of a child's most disliked food list mostly due to bitter and acid tastes and previous experience with similar foods (Harper, 1963;Stratton & Bromley, 1999).…”

“…Research on food choice shows that in order to have an affect on children dietary campaigns must be targeted at the whole family. Parents determine availability within the household, offer exposure and positive reinforcement to various foods and act as examples for dietary behaviour while taste is the primary determinant for children and adolescent's choices (Oliveria et al, 1992;Shepherd & Dennison, 1996;Stratton & Bromley, 1999;Tuorila, Lähteenmäki, Pohjalainen, & Lotti, 2001). Developing and marketing nutritious vegetable-based food for children therefore involves the central challenge of manufacturing products which both children and their parents like.…”

Preference‐based segmentation: a study of meal preferences among Norwegian teenagers

“…Children's preferences and dislikes have an impact on the whole process of planning meals, shopping and preparing food, to the point where meals are adjusted to suit the tastes of different family members (DeVault, 1991;Koivisto and Sjö dén, 1996;Olsen, 2001). Family members often describe a high level of reliance on the mother to implement food decisions (Stratton and Bromley, 1999). Some studies suggest that younger family members perceive parental norms to be stronger and their own control over the consumption lower compared to the perceptions of older children (Berg et al, 2000).…”

“…Teenagers however, can influence which foods are purchased and cooked at home (Gummenson et al, 1996). Several models fail to represent the family as an important and autonomous context in which food choices are made (Stratton and Bromley, 1999). A Norwegian study of young adults (aged 23-26 years) indicates that social norms are important, particularly perceived norms of partners (Øygard and Klepp, 1996).…”

Constructing Food Choice Decisions

“…The breadth sought in the model does not focus on any particular influence or process. The model was developed to examine food choices of individuals, and may not apply well to collective decisions such as those of families [83]. The model was developed in the U.S. in the late twentieth century and may not apply well to other cultures, places, and historical eras.…”