Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia

Objective To investigate the effect of involving children in their feeding process (choosing a recipe, purchasing the ingredients, and cooking) on their lunch food choice in a school environment. Design Quasi-experimental. Setting Two schools in Bilbao, Spain. Participants A total of 202 children (a...

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Autores: Maiz Aldalur, Edurne, Urkia Susín, Iratxe, Urdaneta Artola, Elena, Allirot, Xavier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:children food neophobia
vegetable intake
recipe choice
ingredients purchasing
cooking
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spelling Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobiaMaiz Aldalur, EdurneUrkia Susín, IratxeUrdaneta Artola, ElenaAllirot, Xavierchildren food neophobiavegetable intakerecipe choiceingredients purchasingcookingObjective To investigate the effect of involving children in their feeding process (choosing a recipe, purchasing the ingredients, and cooking) on their lunch food choice in a school environment. Design Quasi-experimental. Setting Two schools in Bilbao, Spain. Participants A total of 202 children (aged 8–9 years) participated in the study (43% girls), with 99 in the nutrition education (NE) group and 103 in the hands-on (HO) group. Intervention Three 1-hour workshops (1 workshop/wk), different for each group: HO, cooking-related activities, and NE, healthy habits promotion through nutrition education activities. Main Outcome Measures Food neophobia, diet quality, cooking self-efficacy and attitudes toward cooking, and food intake and selection of the experimental lunches. Analysis Chi-square test of independence, ANCOVA, and t tests were performed. Results Students from the HO group selected and ate more spinach/broccoli (P < 0.001 and P = 0.02, respectively) for the first lunch; and selected more spinach/broccoli (P = 0.04) for the second lunch. After the intervention, improvements were observed for spinach liking and neophobia for the HO group and cooking self-efficacy and KidMed score for both groups. Conclusions and Implications Both interventions succeeded in improving children's diet quality, but only the HO group reduced food neophobia levels. Therefore, involving children in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking may promote changing eating behaviors toward healthy habits such as increasing vegetable consumption.The authors would like to acknowledge the support to conduct this study from the Basque Government.Elsevier202420242021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/68197reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1499404621000087info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Atribución 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/681972026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
title Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
spellingShingle Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
Maiz Aldalur, Edurne
children food neophobia
vegetable intake
recipe choice
ingredients purchasing
cooking
title_short Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
title_full Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
title_fullStr Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
title_full_unstemmed Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
title_sort Child involvement in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking at school increases willingness to try new foods and reduces food neophobia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Maiz Aldalur, Edurne
Urkia Susín, Iratxe
Urdaneta Artola, Elena
Allirot, Xavier
author Maiz Aldalur, Edurne
author_facet Maiz Aldalur, Edurne
Urkia Susín, Iratxe
Urdaneta Artola, Elena
Allirot, Xavier
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author2 Urkia Susín, Iratxe
Urdaneta Artola, Elena
Allirot, Xavier
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv children food neophobia
vegetable intake
recipe choice
ingredients purchasing
cooking
topic children food neophobia
vegetable intake
recipe choice
ingredients purchasing
cooking
description Objective To investigate the effect of involving children in their feeding process (choosing a recipe, purchasing the ingredients, and cooking) on their lunch food choice in a school environment. Design Quasi-experimental. Setting Two schools in Bilbao, Spain. Participants A total of 202 children (aged 8–9 years) participated in the study (43% girls), with 99 in the nutrition education (NE) group and 103 in the hands-on (HO) group. Intervention Three 1-hour workshops (1 workshop/wk), different for each group: HO, cooking-related activities, and NE, healthy habits promotion through nutrition education activities. Main Outcome Measures Food neophobia, diet quality, cooking self-efficacy and attitudes toward cooking, and food intake and selection of the experimental lunches. Analysis Chi-square test of independence, ANCOVA, and t tests were performed. Results Students from the HO group selected and ate more spinach/broccoli (P < 0.001 and P = 0.02, respectively) for the first lunch; and selected more spinach/broccoli (P = 0.04) for the second lunch. After the intervention, improvements were observed for spinach liking and neophobia for the HO group and cooking self-efficacy and KidMed score for both groups. Conclusions and Implications Both interventions succeeded in improving children's diet quality, but only the HO group reduced food neophobia levels. Therefore, involving children in choosing a recipe, purchasing ingredients, and cooking may promote changing eating behaviors toward healthy habits such as increasing vegetable consumption.
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