Trial reportPublic health nutrition2014
Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Increasing vegetable intakes: rationale and systematic review of published interventions.European journal of nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- The international food unit: a new measurement aid that can improve portion size estimation.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Trial
- Examining the feasibility of implementing behavioural economics strategies that encourage home dinner vegetable intake among low-income children.Public health nutrition · 2017Trial
- ServAR: An augmented reality tool to guide the serving of food.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Trial
- A Sorting Task with Emojis to Understand Children's Recipe Acceptance.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Determinants of vegetable food choice in families with limited food budgets in England: a focus group study to inform vegetable promotion programmes.Journal of nutritional science · 2025Article
- Intake of Fruits, Vegetables, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among a Sample of Children in Rural Northern Ontario, Canada.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Food Waste in Schools: A Pre-/Post-test Study Design Examining the Impact of a Food Service Training Intervention to Reduce Food Waste.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Caregivers' Role in the Effectiveness of Two Dutch School-Based Nutrition Education Programmes for Children Aged 7-12 Years Old.Nutrients · 2021Article
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- Impact of a Mobile Phone App to Increase Vegetable Consumption and Variety in Adults: Large-Scale Community Cohort Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Vegetable intake in Australian children and adolescents: the importance of consumption frequency, eating occasion and its association with dietary and sociodemographic factors.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Actively Involving Middle School Students in the Implementation of a Pilot of a Behavioral Economics-Based Lunchroom Intervention in Rural Schools.Health promotion practice · 2019Article
- Mixed deep learning and natural language processing method for fake-food image recognition and standardization to help automated dietary assessment.Public health nutrition · 2019Article
- Implementation of Parental Strategies to Improve Child Vegetable Intake: Barriers and Facilitators.Global pediatric health · 2019Article
- Understanding the science of portion control and the art of downsizing.The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 2018Review
- An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Health goal priming as a situated intervention tool: how to benefit from nonconscious motivational routes to health behaviour.Health psychology review · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveMost children do not meet the recommended intake of vegetables. Variety was identified as a potential factor to increase children's intake of these foods, as it was shown that variety was effective in improving meal composition in adults. Because younger children are suggested to be more responsive to internal satiation signals than to external food-related cues compared with adults, it is not clear whether variety is effective to improve meal composition in 7- to 10-year-old children.
designExperiment.
settingChildren were assigned one of three different fake food buffets containing pasta, chicken, and either one vegetable (carrots or beans) or two vegetables (carrots and beans). The children were asked to serve themselves a meal that they would like to eat for lunch from the given selection. SUBJECTS: One hundred children (fifty-two boys; mean age 8·8 (sd 1·1) years).
resultsChildren given the two-vegetable choice served themselves significantly more energy from vegetables (mean 64 (sd 51) kJ, 10·9 (sd 9·4) %) compared with children who were offered only either carrots (mean 37 (sd 25) kJ, 5·9 (sd 6·5) %) or beans (mean 38 (sd 34) kJ, 5·6 (sd 6·3) %). The total energy of the meal was not increased, indicating that children chose a more balanced lunch when offered more vegetables.
conclusionsSchool-aged children are responsive to food-related cues and variety is effective in increasing their vegetable choice. Serving an assortment of vegetables in school cafeterias might be a simple and effective strategy to improve children's nutrition.
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