Nguyen Simone P, Girgis Helana, Robinson Julia
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.
Food Qual Prefer. 2015 Mar 4;40 Pt A:106-109. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.09.009.
Food selection, decisions about which foods to eat, is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. The aim of this research was to investigate the role of taste versus health perceptions in 4- and 6-year-old children's food selection. In this study, children and young adults were asked to rate the health and presumed taste of foods. Participants were also asked to indicate whether they would eat these foods in a food selection task. Overall, the results showed that taste was a strong predictor of individuals' food selection above and beyond the variance associated with age, health ratings, and interactions between age and presumed taste ratings as well as age and health ratings. These results contribute to our understanding of children's food selection, and the relative importance of a food's taste versus health in the development of these decisions.
食物选择，即决定吃哪些食物，是我们日常生活中普遍存在的一部分。本研究的目的是调查味觉与健康认知在4岁和6岁儿童食物选择中的作用。在这项研究中，儿童和年轻人被要求对食物的健康程度和假定的味道进行评分。参与者还被要求在食物选择任务中表明他们是否会吃这些食物。总体而言，结果表明，味觉是个体食物选择的一个强有力的预测因素，超出了与年龄、健康评分以及年龄与假定味道评分之间的相互作用以及年龄与健康评分相关的差异。这些结果有助于我们理解儿童的食物选择，以及食物的味道与健康在这些决策形成过程中的相对重要性。
