Effect of Longer Family Meals on Children's Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Family meals are a formative learning environment that shapes children's food choices and preferences. As such, they are an ideal setting for efforts to improve children's nutritional health.

Objective

To examine the effect of extending the duration of family meals on the fruit and vegetable intake in children.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial used a within-dyad manipulation design and was conducted from November 8, 2016, to May 5, 2017, in a family meal laboratory in Berlin, Germany. Included in the trial were children aged 6 to 11 years who did not follow a special diet or have food allergies and adult parents who served as the nutritional gatekeeper in the household (ie, the family member responsible for at least half of t

SUBMITTER: Dallacker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10071335 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature