Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published a paper exploring the co-creation of healthy snack ideas with children through creative and enabling methods. In addition to focus groups, an online platform was explored as setting that might be highly relevant to co-create the food of the future with young people. The paper is published in Food Research…
Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published a paper exploring facial decoding for product testing with children. Tine, industry partner of Edulia, designed the chocolate milk samples used in the study. Facial decoding via machine algorithms is a relatively new method in sensory and consumer research and could be interesting in applications with children to learn about…
As a part of the PhD project, Roselinde Van Nee (ESR4) has together with Ellen van Kleef (both at WUR) developed guidelines to support pre-adolescents in eating healthy outside home in a tempting food environment. An executive summary and the complete guidelines can be downloaded from here
Little is known about fathers’ involvement in child feeding and their feeding practices. To fill this gap, Kaat Philippe (ESR7) and her colleagues at INRAE (France) and the MAPP centre (Denmark) conducted a study. They asked 582 mothers and fathers of Danish pre-schoolers to complete an online survey. With this information, Kaat and her colleagues…
Edulia researchers at UdelaR and Aarhus University came together to investigate dietary changes in the transition to parenthood among Uruguayan parents. The research extends previous work with parents in Denmark and France: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104658 The idea of the paper was to expand the knowledge on barriers to healthy eating among families beyond Europe, and from diverse…
Here is the final program for the Edulia conference: Agenda Edulia Conference 2022 . A condensed version is shown below (for printing, click for the pdf with larger font). For more details, please consider the event page
As everything looked bright the previous fall, we were hopeful to organize a conference presenting results from Edulia in Florence March 2022. As the pandemic is still going on and leading to a lot of uncertainty related to travel and to gather a larger number of people, we have decided to (again) postponing the event.…
By: Ervina (#ESR2) “Are you ready to become a taste detective?” that was the first phrase presented to the children during the sensory testing of Ervina (ESR2). Undertaking a sensory test with children is not easy since they are not “mini-adults”. Therefore, a different approach should be used. Children have shorter attention spans than adults,…
In order to tackle childhood obesity, it is important to know what contributes to weight gain in children. An eating behaviour of interest in this context is “eating in the absence of hunger” (EAH) which has been associated with increased energy intake and weight status in children. To prevent overweight and obesity children, it is…
By: Ervina (#ESR2) Children have different perceptions on how they respond to taste. The same concentration of bitter and sour tastes contained in one glass of grapefruit juice could for example be perceived differently by different individuals. One child may perceive that bitterness is stronger than sourness while the other may perceive a stronger sour…
