Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published a paper in collaboration with her supervisors, Paula Varela, Tormod Næs, Kristian Hovde Liland and Gastón Ares. The study was conducted within the master thesis of Emma Mikkelsen in Martina’s project. The paper is open access in the Journal: Food Quality and Preferences. Automatic food decision making Food choices that…
Serving large portion sizes to children can make them overeat. They can make children overrule their inner sensations of hunger and fullness, and make them eat more than they need. This is the well-known “portion size effect”. Serving right portion sizes to children, adapted to their needs, is also important to avoid weight gain in…
Draw me your dream meal. Healthy and sustainable, please! by Tija Ragelienė “If they could they would eat candies and snacks for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” This is a thought that many parents and educators might say sometimes about children’s food preferences. But is it really true? Do children truly prefer sweets and candies for…
Research suggests that children can use sensory temporal methods to describe visual stimuli, but refinements are needed for the characterization of food products. Ana Laura Velázquez Universidad de la República Uruguay There is no doubt that children’s input is essential to develop successful healthy products. Sensory methods need to be adapted to children’s cognitive abilities…
On February the 4th, Edulia organised a webinar on children and healthy eating in with invited speakers from the CO-Create project run by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen. In addition four of the EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERs presented their research. The webinar was divided into…
Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published an opinion paper in collaboration with her supervisor, Paula Varela and a college from the innovation team, Antje Gonera at Nofima in Norway. The abstract was written for the Creative Tastebuds symposium with the question: “How can our sense of taste save the planet?” and then extended to an article…
Dairy products are an important part of children’s diet. However, a large proportion of the products targeted at them contain an excessive amount of added sugar. ESR1, Ana Laura Velázquez, conducted a study with 126 Uruguayan children (8 to 13 years old) to study how children react to sugar reduction in three popular dairy products:…
The Edulia consortium is happy to present a new ESR in the network. Carina Mueller has recently started as a junior researcher in Wageningen, below you can read about her. What is your background? My name is Carina, I am 26 years old and from Cologne, Germany. I studied Sports Science in my undergraduate studies…
Martina Galler (ESR1) recently published her first paper “How children approach a CATA test influences the outcome. Insights on ticking styles from two case studies with 6–9-year old children“ within EDULIA in “Food Quality and Preference”. A summary of the paper is given below, for the full paper please visit our publication page. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.104009 …
In our tips to keep up healthy eating during quarantine, number 4 is “Play with your food, for young and old”, below we share some tips on how to sense your food! The “Smell Detection Game” and the “Flavor vs Taste Experiment” are novel methods for sensory play. Below you find links to the games…