Early Eating Behaviours and Food Acceptance Revisited: Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary Foods as Predictive of Food Acceptance

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dc.contributor.authorHarris, Gillianen
dc.contributor.authorCoulthard, Helenen
dc.date.acceptance2016-03-08en
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-21T13:49:43Z
dc.date.available2017-03-21T13:49:43Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-08
dc.descriptionOpen Access articleen
dc.description.abstractCurrent dietary advice for children is that they should eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day (Department of Health. National Diet and Nutrition Survey, 2014). However, many parents report that children are reluctant to eat vegetables and often fail to comply with the five-a-day rule. In fact, in surveys carried out in areas in the UK, the number of children eating according to the five-a-day rule has been found to be as low as 16 % (Cockroft et al. Public Health Nutr 8(7):861–69, 2005). This narrative review looks at those factors which contribute to food acceptance, especially fruit and vegetables, and how acceptance might be enhanced to contribute to a wider dietary range in infancy and later childhood. The questions we address are whether the range of foods accepted is determined by the following: innate predispositions interacting with early experience with taste and textures, sensitive periods in infancy for introduction, breastfeeding and the pattern of introduction of complementary foods. Our conclusions are that all of these factors affect dietary range, and that both breastfeeding and the timely introduction of complementary foods predict subsequent food acceptance.en
dc.exception.reasonopen access articleen
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationHarris, G. and Coulthard, H. (2016) Early Eating Behaviours and Food Acceptance Revisited: Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary Foods as Predictive of Food Acceptance. Current Obesity Reports, 5 (1), pp. 113–120en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-016-0202-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/13797
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.researchgroupHealth Psychologyen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Psychological Scienceen
dc.subjectInfanten
dc.subjectchilden
dc.subjectfeedingen
dc.subjecttasteen
dc.subjectbreastfeedingen
dc.subjectfruits and vegetablesen
dc.titleEarly Eating Behaviours and Food Acceptance Revisited: Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary Foods as Predictive of Food Acceptanceen
dc.typeArticleen

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