Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/N3pVudLSzLQ   A child’s level of dislike for a given food rather than how much the child likes that food is a better predictor of consumption at any given meal.  Penn State nutritionists studied 61 children 4 to 6 years of age who were asked to rate the 7 foods presented to them on a meal tray: chicken nuggets, grapes, potato chips, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, ketchup, and cookies.   After the children consumed the available foods they wished, the researchers weighed the remaining foods and mathematically compared the food consumed with the child’s expressed preferences.  The results showed that the correlation between liking a food and the amount consumed was poor while the relationship between disliking a given food and the amount that remained uneaten was statistically significant.   Interesting enough, other studies have shown the same trend for adults.   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019566632200037X?via%3Dihub   #children #foodpreferences #foodconsum