Edulia’s main objective has been “bringing down barriers to healthy eating”. The idea is that we want children (and then later as adolscents and adults) to eat healthy by choice, not because they are told to. Research by our ESRs show that Food familiarity is important to decrease food neophopia and food fuzziness Pickard, A.,…
Healthy product development The current food environment is characterized by the wide availability of unhealthy products with high sugar, fat and salt content. This constitutes a major barrier for the development of healthy dietary patterns among children and preadolescents. In this context, WP4 “Healthy Food Product Development” has explored children-driven product development, based on the…
The final conference was planned and rescheduled several times. The original plan was to organise a conference together with the last consortium meeting. However, because of the risk that ESRs could not participate due to new obligations, it was decided to organise an Edulia conference spring/winter 2021. Due to the pandemic this was postponed multiple…
Julia Sick (ESR3) and her team from of the University of Florence (UNIFI), Prof. Erminio Monteleone, Prof Caterina Dinnella, Dr. Lapo Pierguidi, and Dr. Sara Spinelli, published the paper named “Development of an emoji-based self-report measurement tool to measure emotions elicited by foods in preadolescents” in the international journal Food Quality and Preference. You can…
The final Edulia consortium meeting, was held in beautiful Florence, Italy, June 20th. It was a pleasure to finally meet physically again after a long period with only digital meetings. Presentations The consortium meetings have been an arena for ESRs to present their plans and results. This time, we got status updates from only three…
Julia Sick, ESR 3, successfully defended her thesis: “The Role of Emotions, Personality Traits, and Sensory Sensitivity in Preadolescents’ Food Preferences” on April 22, 2022. The defense took place in her home institution at the University of Florence, Italy, and was streamed online. Institution: University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry,…
Martina Galler successfully defended her PhD thesis “New methodologies in sensory and consumer research with preadolescents to guide product development of healthy, child-centered food” Date and place of defence: Digital/Ås, Norway on Friday December 17, 2021. Institution: Nofima, Norway In spite of the strong covid measures at the end of the year, Martina had…
Date and place of defence: Friday March 4th, 2022; Dijon (France). Institution: CSGA INRAE, France and Santé Publique France Opponents Dr. Blandine De Lauzon-Guillain (UMR CRESS, INRAE, FR) – Reviewer Prof Gerry Jager (Wageningen University, NL) – Reviewer Prof. Noël Peretti (CHU Lyon, FR) – Examiner Dr. Thierry Cardoso (Santé publique France, FR) – Examiner Dr.…
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…
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