Association between parental consumer attitudes with their children's sensory taste preferences as well as their food choice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated the association between the consumer attitudes of European parents and their children's taste preferences and food choice. Furthermore, we studied whether the parental consumer attitudes were related to education level.

Methods

This analysis included 1,407 IDEFICS study children aged 6.0 to 11.8 years and from 7 European countries, who participated in the sensory taste perception module between 2007 and 2010. Parental consumer attitude was operationalized as 'trusting in foods known from advertisements' (trusting advertisements) and as 'not avoiding additives in food' (not avoiding additives). Parents reported their educational attainment and completed a food frequency questionnaire for their children. Consumption frequencies of sweet, fatty and pr

SUBMITTER: Jilani HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070197 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature