Healthy helpers: using culinary lessons to improve children's culinary literacy and self-efficacy to cook.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children do not eat the recommended amounts of vegetables, and school-based nutrition education has not been found to impact this behavior. Cooking education is associated with improved children's culinary literacy (CL) and eating behaviors. This study investigated the impact of a culinary literacy (CL) curriculum on children's acceptance of vegetable-added (mushrooms) recipes, CL, self-efficacy to cook (SE), and willingness to try vegetables (WV).

Methods

A convenience sample of 39 fourth and fifth graders were exposed to a six-lesson virtual CL curriculum that taught basic cooking skills and how to prepare six recipes, including three traditional recipes and the same recipes with added vegetables.

Results

Children who participated in the CL curriculum acc

SUBMITTER: Policastro P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10657997 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature