New research shows how children want their food served

Medical X-Press – Staff Writer

The aim of research from the Future Consumer Lab was to investigate whether children prefer their food served in a particular way and whether their gender and age make a difference with regard to their preferences. “As a researcher, I have anecdotally heard parents say that their children prefer to have their food served in a particular way, including in a specific order. But we do not have much evidence-based knowledge about how children sort and eat their food, which is very relevant when, for example, we want our children to eat more vegetables—or eat their food in general,” says Associate Professor Annemarie Olsen from the Future Consumer Lab at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen. (more)