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…
A new paper describing the role of self-perceived body weight in the relationship between weight status and mental well-being in school-aged children of 47 countries has been publised. The paper results from the secondment of Martina Galler, ESR1, at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in the EU project CO-CREATE. The study shows that perceiving…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eurosense is organised every second year. The chairs of this years conference were Kees de Graaf and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, both from Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. First the conference was postponed, then the conference was planned as “Live and on-demand” a combination of virtual and online conference, and finally it became 100% online. Online conferences are…
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…