Project within WP6 (to a lesser extent WP7) Objectives: (1) to investigate the influence of secondary socialisation agents (peers and siblings) and social media marketing on children’s healthy eating behaviour in preadolescents of different family compositions (2) to study when and whether peer and sibling influence is ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ with respect to eating healthily…
This research will investigate the main barriers for healthy eating in the family food environment with focus on new parents The study will involve 3 main parts, as shown in the figure below: Flowchart summarizing the main steps of the research project In part I, a cross-cultural study involving 3 countries, Denmark, France and…
This thesis attempted to provide stakeholders involved in the development of products targeted at children recommendations to reduce the sugar content of products, as well as to provide to public policy makers information that serves as the basis for the design of sugar reduction programs. The following objectives were addressed: General objectives The general objective…
Project within WP6 General objectives: To assess the impact of parental feeding practices on children’s eating behaviour in terms of food repertoire (qualitative dimension; e.g., food rejection) and intake regulation (quantitative dimension; e.g., eating in the absence of hunger) To better understand parental feeding practices, their effects and drivers, and to identify promising feeding strategies to…
Project within WP5 (and to a lesser extent WP4) Objectives: (1) To develop material (leaflet, videos…) to disseminate public health guidelines (PHG) regarding the adoption of healthy eating behaviour in children aged 0-3. (2) To evaluate if this material is understood by parents (3) To evaluate the effect of the use of this material on…
In this video you will meet Marie-Curie PhD student Roselinde van Nee. Roselinde tells about her background, her motivation to be a part of Edulia, how she would like to make a difference, doing research with pre-adolescents and her expectations of living in the Netherlands. Her PhD will be on nudging preadolescent children towards healthier…
Project within WP6 (and to a lesser extent WP3 and WP7) Objectives: (1) To investigate cognitive mechanisms that could contribute to an explanation of food rejections in preschoolers. (2) To develop innovative eating devices consistent with the developmental characteristics underpinning food rejections. Specific questions: It has been recently shown that food rejections are associated to…
Objectives: The thesis aim was to establish research-based knowledge on suitable consumer insight and food testing methodologies with preadolescents (appr. 9 to 12 years old), aimed at the development of healthy food products (by the food industry) and a better understanding of children’s perception of food (at an academic level). A special focus lay on…
Julia defended her thesis in April 2022 and is currently working at the SensoryLab (University of Florence), where she continues among other some of her research related to the EDULIA project. Overall objectives The overall objective was to investigate the role of emotions, personality traits, and sensory sensitivity in preadolescents’ food preferences. Specific…
Objectives: (1) To map sensory sensitivity levels for the five basic tastes and fattiness in preadolescent children and study relationships between these; (2) To uncover relationships between sensory sensitivity, hedonic preferences, food neophobia/pickiness and body weight status in preadolescent children; (3) To investigate children’s sensitivity to sugar reduction thresholds and acceptance of sugar-reduced products; (4)…