Food neophobia and its association with vegetable, fruit and snack intake among 12- to 36-month toddlers in China: A cross-sectional study

Xi, Yue; Liu, Yan; Yang, Qiping; Liu, Hanmei; Luo, Jing; Ouyang, Yufeng; Sun, Minghui; Huo, Jiaqi; Zou, Jiaojiao; Lin, Qian

doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104513

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“…In our study, the consumption of snacks and SSBs was 1.21 ± 2.58 times/week and 4.66 ± 6.40 times/week, respectively. Compared to a study among toddlers in China [ 28 ], the snack (3.25 ± 3.54 times/week) and SSB (0.45 ± 1.14 times/week) consumption levels were relatively higher, which maybe mainly due to increasing age [ 67 ]. However, compared with children of the same age (3~6 years old), the consumption of snacks and SSBs was lower than in the previous study, especially for SSBs [ 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 ].…”

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“…Preschoolers in many countries do not consume enough fruits and vegetables, such as in America and European countries [ 55 , 56 ]. The characteristics of vegetables and fruits themselves, such as odor and taste, may potentially affect preschool children’s liking for them [ 28 ]. Children’s eating behaviors, such as food fussiness, can also have an impact on preschoolers’ F&V consumption, which was confirmed in this study.…”

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“…The children’s food consumption frequencies for the past three months were collected using a 27-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) [ 28 , 29 ], whose response frequencies were as follows: never or <once/month, 1~3 times/month, 1~2 times/week, 3~4 times/week, 5~6 times/week, once/day, twice/day, 3 times/day or more, and then converted to 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.5, 3.5, 5.5, 7, 14, and 21 times per week, respectively. Considering the prevalence of marginal vitamin A deficiency was 31.53% in Chinese preschool children [ 30 ], we categorize vegetables and fruits into vitamin A-rich vegetables/other vegetables and vitamin A-rich fruits/other fruits to understand the current status of vitamin A-rich food intake among preschool children.…”

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Screen Time and Its Association with Vegetables, Fruits, Snacks and Sugary Sweetened Beverages Intake among Chinese Preschool Children in Changsha, Hunan Province: A Cross-Sectional Study

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(1) Introduction: Screen time may influence preschoolers’ food consumption. However, there is limited evidence regarding preschoolers, especially in China. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between screen time and the consumption of vegetables, fruits, snacks, and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs). (2) Methods: Participants (1567 caregivers) were recruited from six kindergartens in Hunan, China. Caregivers completed the questionnaire, which included the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and questions regarding their children’s daily screen time. (3) Results: The mean screen time of preschoolers was 1.36 ± 1.26 h, and the proportion of children who spent more than one hour on screens was 54.3% in the overall sample. Children with longer screen time consumed vegetables and fruits less frequently, while having a higher consumption of snacks and SSBs. After adjustment of sociodemographic confounders, children’s eating behaviors and parental feeding practices, the association of screen time with vegetables and SSBs still remained significant. (4) Conclusions: Screen time exposure needs to be monitored in preschool children, which was negatively associated with their consumption of vegetables and fruits, whereas it was positively associated with snacks and SSBs. Future research should focus more on the impact of screen time on children’s unhealthy behaviors and dietary patterns.

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“…Taste is a critical factor shaping food preferences (3,4). For example, studies of adolescents in the United States (5) and non-Western nations including China (6) indicate taste is the most important influence on food selection.…”

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“…For example, studies of adolescents in the United States (5) and non-Western nations including China (6) indicate taste is the most important influence on food selection. Neophobia, the tendency to reject or avoid novel edibles while developing preferences for more familiar foods (3), is an important genetic predisposition that shapes preferences for particular foods (4). While neophobic tendencies are encoded in genetics, their expression is shaped by culture and can differ between countries (7,8).…”

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Neural responsiveness to Chinese versus Western food images: An functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Chinese young adults

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Cross-cultural studies suggest that people typically prefer to eat familiar foods from their own culture rather than foreign foods from other cultures. On this basis, it is plausible that neural responsiveness elicited by palatable food images from one’s own culture differ from those elicited by food depictions from other cultures. Toward clarifying this issue, we examined neural activation and self-report responses to indigenous (Chinese) versus Western food images among young Chinese adults. Participants (33 women, 33 men) viewed Chinese food, Western food and furniture control images during a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan and then rated the images on “liking,” “wanting,” and “difficult resisting.” Analyses indicated there were no significant differences in self-report ratings of Chinese versus Western food images. However, Chinese food images elicited stronger activation in regions linked to cravings, taste perception, attention, reward, and visual processing (i.e., cerebellum crus, superior temporal gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, posterior insula, middle occipital gyrus; inferior occipital gyrus). Conversely, Western food images elicited stronger activation in areas involved in visual object recognition and visual processing (inferior temporal gyrus, middle occipital gyrus, calcarine). These findings underscored culture as a potentially important influence on neural responses to visual food cues and raised concerns about the ecological validity of using “standard” Western food images in neuroimaging studies of non-Western samples. Results also provide foundations for designing culturally informed research and intervention approaches in non-Westerns contexts guided by the use of external food cues that are most salient to the cultural group under study.

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Food neophobia in early childhood: A cross cultural study

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Zhong,

Guinard

2023

Food Quality and Preference

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Food neophobia and its association with vegetable, fruit and snack intake among 12- to 36-month toddlers in China: A cross-sectional study

Cited by 7 publications

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Screen Time and Its Association with Vegetables, Fruits, Snacks and Sugary Sweetened Beverages Intake among Chinese Preschool Children in Changsha, Hunan Province: A Cross-Sectional Study

Screen Time and Its Association with Vegetables, Fruits, Snacks and Sugary Sweetened Beverages Intake among Chinese Preschool Children in Changsha, Hunan Province: A Cross-Sectional Study

Neural responsiveness to Chinese versus Western food images: An functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Chinese young adults

Food neophobia in early childhood: A cross cultural study

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