ReviewAppetite2021
Guidelines for designing age-appropriate cooking interventions for children: The development of evidence-based cooking skill recommendations for children, using a multidisciplinary approach.
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- Let's Get Cooking: a mixed methods evaluation of a programme delivering culinary education via a network of cookery clubs across England.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Can Hobbies Shape Fine Motor Skills Development in First-Year Dental and Oral Health Students?European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- Food preparation skills and obesity risk in European children aged 6-9 years: a cross-sectional study using WHO COSI 2022-2024'.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Comparing food literacy by grade, sex, and food education exposure: construct validation of the food literacy BITE scale.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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- Parental Culinary Skills and Children's Eating Behavior in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Is Involvement in Food Tasks Associated with Psychosocial Health in Adolescents? The EHDLA Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Can Australian meal kits support food literacy and healthy family meal provisioning? A qualitative study.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Teaching Kitchens: An innovative program for enhancing self-management skills in adolescents living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) - A feasibility study.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Article
- Development of food literacy in children and adolescents: implications for the design of strategies to promote healthier and more sustainable diets.Nutrition reviews · 2024Review
- Culinary Medicine or Culinary Nutrition? Defining Terms for Use in Education and Practice.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- Patterns of home cooking practices among participants in a behavioral weight loss program: A latent class analysis.Appetite · 2023Article
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- Home-based cooking intervention with a smartphone app to improve eating behaviors in children aged 7-9 years: a feasibility study.Discover social science and health · 2023Article
- Cook like a Boss Online: an adapted intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic that effectively improved children's perceived cooking competence, movement competence and wellbeing.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- An elective high school cooking course improves students' cooking and food skills: a quasi-experimental study.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cooking interventions have been criticised for their weak designs and 'kitchen sink' approach to content development. Currently, there is no scientific guidance for the inclusion of specific skills in children's cooking interventions. Therefore, a four step method was used to develop age-appropriate cooking skill recommendations based on relevant developmental motor skills. The steps include: 1) a critical review of academic and publicly available sources of children's cooking skills recommendations; 2) cooking skill selection, deconstruction and mapping to relevant motor skills; 3) grouping the cooking skills by underlying motor skills for age appropriateness to generate evidence based recommendations; 4) establish face validity using a two-stage expert review, critique and refinement with a multidisciplinary international team. Seventeen available sources of cooking skills recommendations were identified, critiqued and deconstructed and cooking skills mapped to developmental motor skills. These new recommendations consist of 32 skills, across five age categories: 2-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-7 years, 7-9 years, and 9+ years. The proposed recommendations will strengthen programme design by providing guidance for content development targeted at the correct age groups and can act as a guide to parents when including their children in cooking activities at home.
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