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Will altering visual cues of food consumption affect food intake in preschool‐age children? (808.8)
Author(s) -
Kranz Sibylle,
Brauchla Mary,
McCabe Sean,
McCabe George
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.808.8
Subject(s) - sensory cue , affect (linguistics) , food consumption , consumption (sociology) , food intake , analysis of variance , psychology , crossover study , medicine , audiology , environmental health , communication , cognitive psychology , social science , sociology , agricultural economics , economics , alternative medicine , pathology , placebo
Portion size is known to influence food intake in children, but little is known about how visual cues will affect food consumption in this age group. This crossover study tested whether children’s food intake would increase if children had no visual cues (NVC) of food consumption. Two‐to‐five year old children (n=38) were asked to come to Purdue University on Saturday mornings for 6 visits. After a snack preload, children were served one of 3 lunch foods: pasta with sauce, yogurt, or high‐fiber yogurt. During one visit, children had standard visual cues of food consumption and at the other visit there were no visual cues (refilling bowl). A repeated measures ANOVA model was used to assess the effects of visual cues, gender, food and their interactions on food consumption. Contrasts were used to assess the effect of visual cues on food consumption. We found no significant effects of visual cues on food intake in any of the study foods, although there was a nonsignificant trend towards greater intake in the NVC condition with two of the three foods tested. Food intake in preschoolers may not be affected by visual cues of amount consumed, but additional research is needed to further test this hypothesis.