Parent served vegetable portion sizes and perception of food leftovers across different meal combinations: A cross sectional, online study
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Parents often serve smaller vegetable portions when children dislike them or when leftovers are anticipated. Serving healthy foods encourages larger portions, but meal context influences expected leftovers.
Area Of Science
- Nutrition Science
- Child Psychology
- Behavioral Economics
Background
- Insufficient vegetable consumption is a persistent issue in UK children's diets.
- Parental portion size provision significantly impacts children's food intake.
- Understanding parental decision-making for vegetable portions is crucial but under-researched.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate how meal context and food combinations influence parents' vegetable portion size decisions for children aged 4-8.
- To identify predictors of parent-selected vegetable portions and anticipated child vegetable leftovers.
- To explore the role of child and parental factors in these decisions.
Main Methods
- A novel online portion size task involving 407 parents of 4-8-year-old children.
- Parents selected portions of protein, carbohydrate, and vegetable items across nine meal combinations.
- Analysis of meal factors, child characteristics, and parental factors as predictors.
Main Results
- Smaller vegetable portions were linked to lower perceived child liking, anticipated leftovers, and parental goals to reduce mealtime stress.
- Parental goals to serve healthy foods predicted larger vegetable portions.
- Meal combinations more strongly affected anticipated leftovers than portion sizes, with palatable non-vegetable items increasing expected leftovers.
Conclusions
- Parents' vegetable portion decisions appear primarily based on expectations of individual foods, not the overall meal context.
- Anticipation of leftovers involves considering the influence of palatable non-vegetable items on children's vegetable intake.
- Findings can inform strategies to help parents serve appropriate vegetable portions and promote intake in children.
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