ArticleAcademic pediatrics2018
Association of Picky Eating With Weight Status and Dietary Quality Among Low-Income Preschoolers.
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- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Language Subtypes in Young Autistic Children and the Influence of Parental Education, Educational Environment and Diet.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- To Taste or Not to Taste: A Narrative Review of the Effectiveness of Taste and Non-Taste Exposures on the Dietary Intake of Head Start Children.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Food Fussiness, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, and Their Correlations With Anthropometric Indices in Children.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Risk Factors and Consequences of Food Neophobia and Pickiness in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Associations between child eating behaviors with eating patterns and diet quality in preschool-aged children.Appetite · 2024Article
- Associations of Appetitive Traits and Parental Feeding Style With Diet Quality During Early Childhood.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2024Article
- Examining measurement invariance of appetitive trait and ARFID symptom measures by food security status.Appetite · 2024Article
- Exploring differences in disordered eating and related appetitive traits among women based on childhood and current food security status.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Consumption of Added Sugar among Chinese Toddlers and Its Association with Picky Eating and Daily Screen Time.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Food insecurity, food parenting practices, and child eating behaviors among low-income Hispanic families of young children.Appetite · 2022Article
- Parent, child, and environmental predictors of vegetable consumption in Italian, Polish, and British preschoolers.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Gender and racial/ethnic differences in food selectivity in children with intellectual disabilities.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPicky eating is common in children. Few studies have examined predictors of picky eating, and the association of picky eating with weight status and dietary quality is inconsistent in the literature. We aimed to identify predictors of picky eating and to test the association of picky eating with child body mass index z-score (BMIz), dietary quality, and micronutrient intake.
methodsThis was a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a randomized controlled trial to prevent obesity among 506 preschoolers attending Head Start. Parents completed questionnaires to assess picky eating and child temperament. Three 24-hour dietary recalls were collected to assess dietary intake. Multivariate regression models assessed child, parent, and family predictors of picky eating; additional models tested adjusted associations of picky eating with child BMIz, dietary quality (measured using the Healthy Eating Index-2010), and micronutrient intake.
resultsPicky eating was predicted by male sex, older child age, and more difficult temperament but not race/ethnicity, maternal body mass index, maternal depressive symptoms, household food insecurity, or single parent home. Picky eating was not associated with child BMIz or micronutrient deficiencies; it was inversely associated with total Healthy Eating Index-2010 score and servings of whole fruit, total vegetables, greens and beans, and total protein foods.
conclusionsPediatric providers should support parents in expanding the number of healthy foods the child eats to improve dietary quality, but reassure parents that picky eating is not associated with children's weight status or micronutrient deficiencies.
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