Menu Box Delivery Service for Long Day Care
to evaluate the impact of a meal kit style intervention tailored to the LDC setting, compared to standard practice, on the food provision and dietary intake of the five food groups (vegetables and legumes; fruit; cereals and breads; dairy and alternatives; meat and alternatives) to preschool children, particularly vegetables, while in LDC
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
The purpose of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is to introduce pleasurable food education to children during their learning years, in order to form positive food habits for life.
Rewards can be used effectively with repeated exposure to increase liking of vegetables in 4–6-year-old children
To examine whether parents offering a sticker reward to their child to taste a vegetable the child does not currently consume is associated with improvements in children’s liking and consumption of the vegetable.
Eating for Pleasure or Profit: The Effect of Incentives on Children’s Enjoyment of Vegetables
This study aimed to (1) investigate short-term effects and long-term effects of non-food rewards on liking and intake of a moderately disliked vegetable; and (2) to compare exposure without reward with no-exposure control.
The root of the problem: increasing root vegetable intake in preschool children by repeated exposure and flavour flavour learning
The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of flavour–flavour learning as one strategy for increasing vegetable intake in preschool children.
Influence of choice on vegetable intake in children: an in-home study
This study investigated whether choice-offering is effective in promoting young children’s vegetable intake of familiar vegetables when applied by caregivers in an in-home situation
Randomized controlled trial of a telephone-based intervention for child fruit and vegetable intake: long-term follow-up
The Healthy Habits trial aimed to assess the efficacy of a telephone-based intervention for parents to increase the fruit and vegetable consumption in their 3–5-y-old children.
Serving First in Isolation Increases Vegetable Intake among Elementary Schoolchildren
We report two field studies in an elementary school cafeteria that each demonstrate children eat more of a vegetable (carrots, broccoli) when we provide it first in isolation versus alongside other more preferred foods
Taste Exposure Increases Intake and Nutrition Education Increases Willingness to Try an Unfamiliar Vegetable in Preschool Children: A Cluster Randomized Trial
To compare taste exposure, nutrition education and taste exposure plus nutrition education together on intake of an unfamiliar vegetable (mooli/daikon radish) in preschool-aged children.
Multiple vs Single Target Vegetable Exposure to Increase Young Children’s Vegetable Intake
This pilot study aimed to determine the effectiveness of repeated exposure to either single or multiple target vegetables in increasing vegetable acceptance and intake in low-vegetable-consuming children aged 4−6 years