Play with your food! Sensory play is associated with tasting of fruits and vegetables in preschool children

Appetite

Volumn 113, Issue , 2017, Pages 84-90

  Coulthard, Helen ^a   Sealy, Annemarie ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; Exposure; Fruit and vegetable; Games; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BANANA; BLUEBERRY; CARROT; CHILD; CHILD NEOPHOBIA FOOD SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PORTIONS; HUMAN; KIWIFRUIT; MALE; MUSKMELON; NEOPHOBIA; PLAY; POMEGRANATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TACTILE SENSITIVITY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASTE; TOMATO; VEGETABLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; SCHOOL; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUIT; HUMANS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SCHOOLS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TASTE PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLES;

EID: 85013993563     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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