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An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable
Children’s vegetable consumption is often lower than that needed to promote optimal health and development, and practical approaches for increasing vegetable consumption are needed. Sensory Specific Satiety (SSS) reduces the liking and consumption of a consumed food over the course of an eating occa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28737712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods6070055 |
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author | Goh, Jasmine R. Russell, Catherine G. Liem, Djin G. |
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description | Children’s vegetable consumption is often lower than that needed to promote optimal health and development, and practical approaches for increasing vegetable consumption are needed. Sensory Specific Satiety (SSS) reduces the liking and consumption of a consumed food over the course of an eating occasion and is an important factor in meal termination. The present study aimed to investigate the development of SSS when children ate vegetables of different sizes. The absence of SSS would be an encouraging sign to provide children more vegetables during a meal. Seventy-two children (33 boys, ages 8.8 ± 1.5 years) were recruited from Australian primary schools. Participating children consumed either whole or diced carrots for a maximum period of 10-min from a 500 g box. Cucumber was used as a control vegetable. Children’s liking of carrots and cucumber was measured with a 5-point child friendly hedonic scale prior to and after carrot consumption. In comparison to cucumber, liking for neither diced (p = 0.57) nor whole carrots (p = 0.18) changed during ad libitum consumption of carrots, indicating that SSS did not occur. However, children (n = 36) who finished eating carrots within the 10-min time limit, spent more time eating the whole carrots compared to the diced carrots (p < 0.05), which tended to result in a higher consumption of whole carrots (p < 0.06). This suggests that, in order to increase vegetable consumption, it is better to present children whole carrots than diced carrots. These findings might aid in the development of strategies to promote children’s greater vegetable consumption. |
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spelling | pubmed-55325622017-08-08 An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable Goh, Jasmine R. Russell, Catherine G. Liem, Djin G. Foods Article Children’s vegetable consumption is often lower than that needed to promote optimal health and development, and practical approaches for increasing vegetable consumption are needed. Sensory Specific Satiety (SSS) reduces the liking and consumption of a consumed food over the course of an eating occasion and is an important factor in meal termination. The present study aimed to investigate the development of SSS when children ate vegetables of different sizes. The absence of SSS would be an encouraging sign to provide children more vegetables during a meal. Seventy-two children (33 boys, ages 8.8 ± 1.5 years) were recruited from Australian primary schools. Participating children consumed either whole or diced carrots for a maximum period of 10-min from a 500 g box. Cucumber was used as a control vegetable. Children’s liking of carrots and cucumber was measured with a 5-point child friendly hedonic scale prior to and after carrot consumption. In comparison to cucumber, liking for neither diced (p = 0.57) nor whole carrots (p = 0.18) changed during ad libitum consumption of carrots, indicating that SSS did not occur. However, children (n = 36) who finished eating carrots within the 10-min time limit, spent more time eating the whole carrots compared to the diced carrots (p < 0.05), which tended to result in a higher consumption of whole carrots (p < 0.06). This suggests that, in order to increase vegetable consumption, it is better to present children whole carrots than diced carrots. These findings might aid in the development of strategies to promote children’s greater vegetable consumption. MDPI 2017-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5532562/ /pubmed/28737712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods6070055 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Goh, Jasmine R. Russell, Catherine G. Liem, Djin G. An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title | An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title_full | An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title_fullStr | An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title_full_unstemmed | An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title_short | An Investigation of Sensory Specific Satiety and Food Size When Children Consume a Whole or Diced Vegetable |
title_sort | investigation of sensory specific satiety and food size when children consume a whole or diced vegetable |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28737712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods6070055 |
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