Food Texture Acceptance, Sensory Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia in Children and Their Parents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Measures
2.3.1. Demographic Variables and General Information about the Child
2.3.2. Food Neophobia
2.3.3. Sensory Sensitivity
2.3.4. CFTPQ
2.3.5. Food Frequency Questionnaire
2.4. Data Analysis
2.4.1. Calculation of the CFTPQ Index
2.4.2. Food Neophobia and Children’s Texture Preferences
2.4.3. Sensory Sensitivity and Children’s Texture Preferences
2.4.4. Correlation between Sensory Sensitivity and Food Neophobia
2.4.5. Children and Parental Texture-Liker Status
2.4.6. Food Consumption Frequency and Children’s Texture Preferences
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of the Population
3.2. Segmentation of Participants
3.3. Correlation between Children’s Texture Preferences and Food Neophobia
3.4. Correlation between Children’s Texture Preferences and Sensory Sensitivity
3.5. Correlation between Sensory Sensitivity and Food Neophobia
3.6. Children’s and Parental Texture Preferences
3.7. Correlation between Children’s Texture Preferences and Food Consumption Frequency
4. Discussion
4.1. Children’s food Texture Preferences
4.2. Correlation between Texture Preferences, Children’s Sensory Processing and Food Neophobia
4.3. Correlation between Child and Parental Texture Preferences
4.4. Strengths and Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | ||
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Children | N Gender (% girls) Age in years (mean; SD) Weight in kg (mean; SD) Height in cm (mean; SD) Breastfeed (% yes) Missing teeth (% yes) Dental brace (% yes) | 70 41.4 9.4 ± 1.9 33.9 ± 10.1 138.9 ± 78.6% 34.3% 4.3% |
Adults | N Gender (% females) Age in years (mean; SD) Weight in kg (mean; SD) Height in cm (mean; SD) | 70 84.3% mothers 40.7 ± 4.2 72.0 ± 13.9 170.8 ± 8.0 |
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Cappellotto, M.; Olsen, A. Food Texture Acceptance, Sensory Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia in Children and Their Parents. Foods 2021, 10, 2327. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102327
Cappellotto M, Olsen A. Food Texture Acceptance, Sensory Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia in Children and Their Parents. Foods. 2021; 10(10):2327. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102327
Chicago/Turabian StyleCappellotto, Maddalena, and Annemarie Olsen. 2021. "Food Texture Acceptance, Sensory Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia in Children and Their Parents" Foods 10, no. 10: 2327. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102327
APA StyleCappellotto, M., & Olsen, A. (2021). Food Texture Acceptance, Sensory Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia in Children and Their Parents. Foods, 10(10), 2327. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10102327