Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits
Food neophobia influences food choice in school-aged children. However, little is known about how children with different degrees of food neophobia perceive food and to what extent different sensory attributes drive their liking. This paper explores liking and sensory perception of fibre-rich biscui...
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| author | Pernilla Sandvik Monica Laureati Hannah Jilani Lisa Methven Mari Sandell Marlies Hörmann-Wallner Noelia da Quinta Gertrude G. Zeinstra Valérie L. Almli |
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| description | Food neophobia influences food choice in school-aged children. However, little is known about how children with different degrees of food neophobia perceive food and to what extent different sensory attributes drive their liking. This paper explores liking and sensory perception of fibre-rich biscuits in school-aged children (<i>n</i> = 509, age 9–12 years) with different degrees of food neophobia and from five different European countries (Finland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom). Children tasted and rated their liking of eight commercial biscuits and performed a Check-All-That-Apply task to describe the samples and further completed a Food Neophobia Scale. Children with a higher degree of neophobia displayed a lower liking for all tasted biscuits (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Cross-cultural differences in liking also appeared (<i>p</i> < 0.001). A negative correlation was found between degree of neophobia and the number of CATA-terms used to describe the samples (<i>r</i> = −0.116, <i>p</i> = 0.009). Penalty analysis showed that degree of food neophobia also affected drivers of biscuit liking, where particularly appearance terms were drivers of disliking for neophobic children. Cross-cultural differences in drivers of liking and disliking were particularly salient for texture attributes. Further research should explore if optimizing appearance attributes could be a way to increase liking of fibre-rich foods in neophobic children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-10a0045293e246f8b502fe2d5267ee182023-11-21T02:14:12ZengMDPI AGFoods2304-81582020-12-011012110.3390/foods10010021Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre BiscuitsPernilla Sandvik0Monica Laureati1Hannah Jilani2Lisa Methven3Mari Sandell4Marlies Hörmann-Wallner5Noelia da Quinta6Gertrude G. Zeinstra7Valérie L. Almli8Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, SwedenDepartment of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, ItalyInstitute for Public Health and Nursing Research—IPP, University of Bremen and Institute for Preventions Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDepartment of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AH, UKDepartment of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, FinlandInstitute of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, 8020 Graz, AustriaAZTI, Food Research, Basque Research and Technological Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, SpainFood, Health & Consumer Research, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, 6708 Wageningen, The NetherlandsDepartment of Innovation, Consumer and Sensory Sciences, Nofima, N-1430 Ås, NorwayFood neophobia influences food choice in school-aged children. However, little is known about how children with different degrees of food neophobia perceive food and to what extent different sensory attributes drive their liking. This paper explores liking and sensory perception of fibre-rich biscuits in school-aged children (<i>n</i> = 509, age 9–12 years) with different degrees of food neophobia and from five different European countries (Finland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom). Children tasted and rated their liking of eight commercial biscuits and performed a Check-All-That-Apply task to describe the samples and further completed a Food Neophobia Scale. Children with a higher degree of neophobia displayed a lower liking for all tasted biscuits (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Cross-cultural differences in liking also appeared (<i>p</i> < 0.001). A negative correlation was found between degree of neophobia and the number of CATA-terms used to describe the samples (<i>r</i> = −0.116, <i>p</i> = 0.009). Penalty analysis showed that degree of food neophobia also affected drivers of biscuit liking, where particularly appearance terms were drivers of disliking for neophobic children. Cross-cultural differences in drivers of liking and disliking were particularly salient for texture attributes. Further research should explore if optimizing appearance attributes could be a way to increase liking of fibre-rich foods in neophobic children.https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/1/21food neophobiacross-culturalpenalty analysispreference mappingpreadolescents |
| spellingShingle | Pernilla Sandvik Monica Laureati Hannah Jilani Lisa Methven Mari Sandell Marlies Hörmann-Wallner Noelia da Quinta Gertrude G. Zeinstra Valérie L. Almli Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits Foods food neophobia cross-cultural penalty analysis preference mapping preadolescents |
| title | Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits |
| title_full | Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits |
| title_fullStr | Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits |
| title_short | Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits |
| title_sort | yuck this biscuit looks lumpy neophobic levels and cultural differences drive children s check all that apply cata descriptions and preferences for high fibre biscuits |
| topic | food neophobia cross-cultural penalty analysis preference mapping preadolescents |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/1/21 |
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