Trial reportBMC public health2018
The value of facial attractiveness for encouraging fruit and vegetable consumption: analyses from a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01591057 (Effect of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Intake on Biomarkers of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Effect of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Intake on Biomarkers of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- The International Skin Spectra Archive (ISSA): a multicultural human skin phenotype and colour spectra collection.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Innovative Strategies for Upcycling Agricultural Residues and Their Various Pharmaceutical Applications.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Predicting Facial Attractiveness from Colour Cues: A New Analytic Framework.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Attractive and healthy-looking male faces do not show higher immunoreactivity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Different colour predictions of facial preference by Caucasian and Chinese observers.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Reactions to an Online Demonstration of the Effect of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption on Appearance: Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- An image-based mapping of significance and relevance of facial skin colour changes of females living in Thailand.International journal of cosmetic science · 2020Article
- Subjective Evaluation of the Results of Injectable Hyaluronic Acid Fillers for the Face.Clinical interventions in aging · 2020Article
- Skin Color Preferences in a Malaysian Chinese Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Refined Carbohydrate Consumption and Facial Attractiveness.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
- Self-Perceived Physical Attractiveness and Moral Intuitions as Mediators Between Somatic-Parental Effort and Mating Orientation.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAn effect of increased fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption on facial attractiveness has been proposed and recommended as a strategy to promote FV intakes, but no studies to date demonstrate a causal link between FV consumption and perceived attractiveness. This study investigated perceptions of attractiveness before and after the supervised consumption of 2, 5 or 8 FV portions/day for 4 weeks in 30 low FV consumers. Potential mechanisms for change via skin colour and perceived skin healthiness were also investigated.
methodsFaces were photographed at the start and end of the 4 week intervention in controlled conditions. Seventy-three independent individuals subsequently rated all 60 photographs in a randomized order, for facial attractiveness, facial skin yellowness, redness, healthiness, clarity, and symmetry.
resultsUsing clustered multiple regression, FV consumption over the previous 4 weeks had no direct effect on attractiveness, but, for female faces, some evidence was found for an indirect impact, via linear and non-linear changes in skin yellowness. Effect sizes, however, were small. No association between FV consumption and skin healthiness was found, but skin healthiness was associated with facial attractiveness.
conclusionsControlled and objectively measured increases in FV consumption for 4 weeks resulted indirectly in increased attractiveness in females via increases in skin yellowness, but effects are small and gradually taper as FV consumption increases. Based on the effect sizes from this study, we are hesitant to recommend the use of facial attractiveness to encourage increased FV consumption.
trial registrationClinical trial Registration Number NCT01591057 ( www.clinicaltrials.gov ). Registered: 27th April, 2012.
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