Department of Human Development & Family Science, Purdue University, 1200 Mitch Daniels Blvd, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Curr Nutr Rep. 2023 Sep;12(3):407-415. doi: 10.1007/s13668-023-00480-1. Epub 2023 Jul 18.
The purpose of this review is to (1) present a conceptual definition of infant food acceptance, (2) explore methodological challenges to measuring different components of food acceptance, and (3) provide recommendations for future research on food acceptance during infancy.
Infant food acceptance includes separate but overlapping components: wanting, liking, and consumption. Recent evidence suggests that although these components are often correlated, there is variability in the sensitivity of these measures to detect differences in infants' responses to target foods. To date, consumption and caregiver perceptions of liking have been the primary outcome measures of interest in studies of infant food acceptance. More diverse and precise measures across the three components of infant food acceptance are needed to address a wider scope of research questions, which would in turn strengthen the interpretability and translational potential of research in this area.
本文旨在：（1）提出婴儿食物接受度的概念定义；（2）探讨测量食物接受度不同组成部分的方法学挑战；（3）为婴儿期食物接受度的未来研究提供建议。
婴儿的食物接受度包括相互独立但又有重叠的部分：想要、喜欢和食用。最近的证据表明，尽管这些组成部分通常是相关的，但这些测量方法在检测婴儿对目标食物反应的差异方面的敏感性存在差异。迄今为止，在婴儿食物接受度的研究中，消费和照顾者对喜欢的感知一直是主要的关注结果测量指标。需要在婴儿食物接受度的三个组成部分中使用更多样化和更精确的测量方法，以解决更广泛的研究问题，这反过来又将增强该领域研究的可解释性和转化潜力。
