Building Future Health and Well-Being of Thriving Toddlers and Young Children

95th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop, September 2020

Editor(s): Black, Maureen M. (Baltimore, MD)
Singhal, Atul (London)
Hillman, Charles H. (Boston, MA)

Advancing from Infancy to Toddlerhood through Food

Introducing Hard-to-Like Foods to Infants and Toddlers: Mothers’ Perspectives and Children’s Experiences about Learning to Accept Novel Foods

Johnson S.L.a · Moding K.J.b

Author affiliations

aChildren’s Eating Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
bDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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Black MM, Singhal A, Hillman CH (eds): Building Future Health and Well-Being of Thriving Toddlers and Young Children. Nestlé Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. Basel, Karger, 2020, vol 95, pp 88–99
https://doi.org/10.1159/000511515

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Abstract of Advancing from Infancy to Toddlerhood through Food

Received: April 01, 2020
Accepted: June 03, 2020
Published online: November 12, 2020
Cover Date: 2020

Number of Print Pages: 12
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 0

ISBN: 978-3-318-06865-8 (Print)
eISBN: 978-3-318-06866-5 (Online)

Abstract

Children reportedly consume a variety of adequate vegetables during the introduction of complementary foods, and breastfeeding helps to facilitate child food acceptance. However, dietary intake of vegetables is reported to fall when children begin to eat foods of the family table. In laboratory settings, repeated exposure is effective in promoting children’s acceptance and consumption of novel foods. We have recently explored mother and child early experiences (from infancy to toddlerhood) with offering hard-to-like foods. Our findings suggest a “sweet spot” for food introduction and acceptance during the early complementary feeding period (6–12 months) with increasing variability in acceptance and negative child behaviors occurring during toddlerhood. When queried, most mothers are familiar with repeated exposure concepts, but their persistence in continuing to offer disliked foods differs. Some report they will “never give up” – a stance linked to health beliefs and that children should “eat what we eat.” Others seem more influenced by children’s resistance and food dislikes, and the amounts their child eat. The majority believe that children’s tastes change and that their child will accept rejected foods later. These mothers may reoffer a rejected food after “a break.” Opportunities exist to translate repeated exposure paradigms to practical methods mothers can successfully adopt in the home.

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Article / Publication Details

First-Page Preview
Abstract of Advancing from Infancy to Toddlerhood through Food

Received: April 01, 2020
Accepted: June 03, 2020
Published online: November 12, 2020
Cover Date: 2020

Number of Print Pages: 12
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 0

ISBN: 978-3-318-06865-8 (Print)
eISBN: 978-3-318-06866-5 (Online)

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